I Will Guide You Back Home!

Keita was supposed to stop at the dungeon gate. Instead, his Guide class kept upgrading him, and the company kept sending him deeper while the AI caretaker voice in his headset learned his habits, his fear, and his name. He hid a sealed laptop in his coat lining, ignored a retirement certificate at home, and carried a key with a tiny mark to every meeting. Then Rina started asking why the same photo lived in three family albums from three families that never met. Keita wanted to protect her from the people who called her property. He also wanted to know why she felt warmer than the humans around him. Every choice made his job, his rank, and his heart feel less like tools and more like traps....