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Naomi Katagaki is a sixteen-year-old high school student living in Kyoto in the year 2027, within a meticulously recreated digital copy of the past stored in a quantum computer system called Alltale. He is the main character of the story. At the outset, Naomi is timid, indecisive, and lacking in initiative. He often lets events happen to him and feels frustrated by his own passivity. He quietly wishes to change that side of himself. He enjoys reading books and is chosen by his classmates to serve on the book committee, a role that brings him into contact with his classmate Ruri Ichigyou.
Naomi’s motivations begin to shift when he encounters a mysterious three-legged crow that steals his library book. Chasing it leads him to a strange man who appears to be his future self from ten years later, an adult Naomi who calls himself Sensei. Sensei explains that he has accessed the Alltale system from the real world to alter the recorded past and prevent Ruri from being struck by lightning at a fireworks festival, an accident that left her comatose in the real world. The teenage Naomi agrees to help, addressing his older counterpart as Sensei. Sensei grants him a special power called God’s Hand, a translucent gloved hand that can materialize any object whose chemical and physical structure is understood.
Throughout the story, Naomi’s central role is to follow Sensei’s guidance in winning Ruri’s affection and ultimately saving her from the accident. His relationship with Ruri deepens as they spend time together in the library committee and eventually fall in love. His relationship with Sensei is complex: Sensei is both a mentor and a manipulator, initially hiding his true intention to extract Ruri’s data for the real world. Naomi’s bond with the crow, a yatagarasu, also plays a key part, as the crow assists him later in the narrative.
Naomi undergoes significant development. He starts as a passive boy who allows circumstances to steer him, but as the story progresses, he works to transform himself. He gradually gains decisiveness and bravery. When Sensei betrays him and teleports Ruri away, Naomi does not give up; he leaps into a red aurora caused by the system’s data filtering and, with the crow’s help, regains God’s Hand. He confronts his adult self, rescues Ruri from the real world’s hospital, and ultimately returns her to their own timeline. In the final confrontation, Sensei sacrifices himself, telling Naomi to always be happy. Naomi returns to Ruri, and they share a kiss as the data world becomes unstable, opening a parallel future.
Among his notable abilities, God’s Hand is the most prominent. It allows him to create almost any object, limited only by chemical and physical complexity. He uses it to create a black hole to erase the lightning strike and later to open portals. His greatest ability, however, is his growing determination: he evolves from a boy who avoids decisions into someone willing to challenge a system and risk everything for the person he loves.
Naomi’s motivations begin to shift when he encounters a mysterious three-legged crow that steals his library book. Chasing it leads him to a strange man who appears to be his future self from ten years later, an adult Naomi who calls himself Sensei. Sensei explains that he has accessed the Alltale system from the real world to alter the recorded past and prevent Ruri from being struck by lightning at a fireworks festival, an accident that left her comatose in the real world. The teenage Naomi agrees to help, addressing his older counterpart as Sensei. Sensei grants him a special power called God’s Hand, a translucent gloved hand that can materialize any object whose chemical and physical structure is understood.
Throughout the story, Naomi’s central role is to follow Sensei’s guidance in winning Ruri’s affection and ultimately saving her from the accident. His relationship with Ruri deepens as they spend time together in the library committee and eventually fall in love. His relationship with Sensei is complex: Sensei is both a mentor and a manipulator, initially hiding his true intention to extract Ruri’s data for the real world. Naomi’s bond with the crow, a yatagarasu, also plays a key part, as the crow assists him later in the narrative.
Naomi undergoes significant development. He starts as a passive boy who allows circumstances to steer him, but as the story progresses, he works to transform himself. He gradually gains decisiveness and bravery. When Sensei betrays him and teleports Ruri away, Naomi does not give up; he leaps into a red aurora caused by the system’s data filtering and, with the crow’s help, regains God’s Hand. He confronts his adult self, rescues Ruri from the real world’s hospital, and ultimately returns her to their own timeline. In the final confrontation, Sensei sacrifices himself, telling Naomi to always be happy. Naomi returns to Ruri, and they share a kiss as the data world becomes unstable, opening a parallel future.
Among his notable abilities, God’s Hand is the most prominent. It allows him to create almost any object, limited only by chemical and physical complexity. He uses it to create a black hole to erase the lightning strike and later to open portals. His greatest ability, however, is his growing determination: he evolves from a boy who avoids decisions into someone willing to challenge a system and risk everything for the person he loves.