Volume 1 Chapter 14 Character Introduction
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
As of the end of the current chapter.
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[Satake Yashiro]
Birth Month: December
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 64 kg
The protagonist’s former self… As a member of the workforce, he’s careful about his appearance. He usually sports a center part because he blasts his hair with the dryer from the front.
Born in Hyogo Prefecture, he’s the second of three brothers. Sandwiched between an overachieving older brother and a talented younger one, he felt constantly overshadowed. After failing his high school entrance exams, he felt he had no place to belong and fled to Tokyo under the guise of attending a certain metropolitan university. He is currently single.
His personality is a mix of laziness and a fierce streak of competitiveness. Because he has a strong sense of responsibility, he’s the type to sigh at the heavens whenever he draws the short straw.
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[Toda Sayaka]
Birth Month: June
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Height: 154 cm
Weight: 43 kg
The new hire Satake took under his wing for OJT¹. She has a slender build and is apparently quite well-endowed, though she wears clothes that make her look thin. She has straight, shoulder-length hair that is – unusually for a girl her age – pitch black.
A Saitama native. She is the eldest daughter and has a sister four years younger. Her family (especially her father) is incredibly overprotective; her enrollment in a women’s university was entirely due to her father’s command. She wasn’t even allowed to live on her own, but since she was moving in with Mamiya, her father gave his reluctant permission. She is currently single.
She has a gentle, serious disposition. While her self-assertion is reserved, she is surprisingly stubborn about her preferences. Her hobbies include cooking and watching animal videos.
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[Mamiya Kei]
Birth Month: January
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Height: 161 cm
Weight: 47 kg
Toda’s best friend and a fellow new hire. Slightly slender with a more modest bust. She usually wears her light-brown straight hair in a ponytail and is the type to leave her bangs down. She is noted for having very healthy-looking legs.
Originally from Chiba. An only child. After dealing with a clingy ex-boyfriend she dated for only three months in high school, she developed a slight aversion to men and chose to attend a women’s university. She is currently single.
She’s a “mood maker” who hates being alone. Having been part of the popular crowd in middle and high school, she knows how to keep the energy up. Her hobbies are social media and photography.
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[Nozawa Madoka]
Birth Month: November
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Height: 157 cm
Weight: 49.9 kg
Satake’s former colleague who joined the company the same year as him. She sports a dark brown short bob and glasses. Her current struggle is trying to shed the weight she’s gained since giving birth.
She is married with two children (a daughter and a son). Her husband is a senior at the same company and is a very hands-on “ikumen²” dad.
She has a dry, no-nonsense personality and is quite social, though she has a tendency to be a bit sensitive to criticism. Her hobbies are drinking and surfing the web.
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[Ogura Mayuko]
Birth Month: December
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Height: 166 cm
Weight: 52 kg
Satake’s former senior at work. A mid-career hire. When Satake left the company, she took the opportunity to jump ship to a different IT firm.
She wears her slightly wavy black hair in a messy style that falls to her shoulders. While working, she usually keeps it back with a headband.
She is married with one daughter. She met her husband, a senior colleague, at the company she joined through a high-level hiring class.
Logical and meticulous, she also hates to lose, which led to frequent clashes with her team members. Her hobbies are playing the stock market and reading technical manuals.
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[Shimizu Yuki]
Birth Month: February
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Height: 151 cm
Weight: 48 kg
A former colleague who worked on the same projects as Satake. Once the training she inherited was finished, she moved on to a role as a Systems Engineer in game development.
She has straight black hair in a bob cut and wears glasses. She has zero interest in dressing up and has notably poor, slouching posture. She is currently in a relationship.
Cautious and introverted, she is the type who is actually quite efficient at her job. She’s a bit of a daydreamer and loves games more than three meals a day. She also enjoys manga and even draws her own illustrations.
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[Hirose Rentarou]
Birth Month: September
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Height: 166 cm
Weight: 68 kg
A second-year employee and the first person Satake ever mentored. He was the first one to quit after Satake left, moving to a different IT company.
He’s supposed to be single, but he claims to have a “waifu³.” He is a font of knowledge regarding the internet and fiction – in fact, he’s the reason Satake got hooked on web novels in the first place.
His personality is logical, critical, and cold; he’s an introvert who struggles to speak to women face-to-face. However, he has no trouble at all communicating via chat. His hobbies are light novels, web novels, late-night anime, and internet message boards.
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[Tanahashi Kaito]
Birth Month: July
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Height: 189 cm
Weight: 74 kg
Satake’s former boss. Tall and handsome, he is incredibly popular and even has experience as a fashion model. As he’s gotten older, his mature charm has only deepened. He’s a favorite among the female staff and is often used as the “face” of the company at recruitment fairs. He is the undisputed ace of the department.
A Tokyo native with a younger sister two years his junior. He is married and a father of three (one girl, two boys). His wife is actually one of Satake’s former contemporaries (who left the company after they married). He graduated from a certain private university in Tokyo.
He’s a bit of a show-off and hates to lose. A natural genius, he’s the type who can succeed at pretty much anything. His hobbies include the gym, bar hopping, and social media.
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[Inuanna]
Birth Month: ?
Age: 15?
Gender: Female?
Height: 150 cm?
Weight: ?
The goddess who presides over life, death, and the cycle of reincarnation.
Her personality is hasty and pure.
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Trivia:
- Satake Yashiro is the protagonist’s ‘past life’ identity.
- Tanahashi Kaito’s wife is actually Satake’s former colleague who had a ‘marriage resignation’.
- Hirose Rentarou is the specific character responsible for Satake’s web novel obsession.
- Toda Sayaka and Mamiya Kei attended a women’s university specifically to avoid certain family or social pressures (father’s command and ex-boyfriend trauma respectively)
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Character Insight:
The profiles highlight a recurring theme of ‘escape’ or ‘displacement’—Satake fleeing Hyogo, Toda constrained by her father, Mamiya fleeing a toxic ex, and Hirose retreating into a digital world. This establishes a grounded, slightly melancholic office-life backdrop.
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Behind the Scenes:
Author notes indicate these stats are correct as of the current chapter’s conclusion. Many female characters are defined by their contrast to Satake’s work ethic and history.
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TL Notes:
Notes:
• Satake – The protag. Tall and lean in a rumpled suit, with faint stubble, tired dark eyes shadowed by deep circles, and a perpetually composed expression, he carries the quiet wear of overwork in every line of his posture. A 28-year-old software engineer and OJT mentor, he is “Paisen” to Toda and Mamiya, the unseen “Satake Wall” shielding them from burnout. Beneath his poker face lies dry cynicism and a self-mocking “ojisan” complex, shaped by years of isolation, relentless duty, and a life lived at his desk, now culminating in a hospital stay born of exhaustion.
• Toda Sayaka – first-year hire under Satake’s OJT, she is a soft-spoken mediator to her roommate Mamiya, her modest dress and careful manners reflecting a pure, almost old-fashioned grace. Slender and pale with long, pitch-black hair flowing softly down her back, she carries a delicate beauty—wide, gentle eyes, easily flushed cheeks, and a quiet, almost fragile presence. Called an “oasis” and even a “guardian deity,” she moves through life with self-effacing kindness, cooking for others and blaming herself for small faults, her innocence preserved yet shaped by a constant, tender effort to care for those around her.
• Mamiya Kei – A spirited first-year hire at Satake’s firm, she moves through the office with quick wit and brighter energy, her light-brown ponytail and athletic frame marking her as both poised and playful. Off-duty, she lounges in casual comfort, sharing a lively home with her roommate Toda. She teases seniors—calling Satake “Paisen”—yet deeply admires him, her informal dialect and easy laughter shaped by club days, independence, and a life that taught her to stay light on her feet.
• Nozawa – She is a petite woman with a dark brown short bob, glasses, and a practical, no-nonsense look, usually dressed in neat office wear. She is Satake’s peer from the same hiring class and a senior to the others, known for being strict with rules and reliable, even handling things like recovering his equipment from the hospital. Married with two kids and an “ikumen” husband at the same company, she drinks beer, speaks bluntly, and acts as a tough but caring big-sister figure—mentoring juniors in both work and romance, while quietly sensitive to criticism.
• Ogura – She is a tall, slender woman with wavy black shoulder-length hair held back by a headband, carrying a sharp, composed look in simple work attire. She is a senior engineer on the Aretha Non-Life Insurance project, about ten years older than Satake, known for strong technical skill despite having no management title. Married with a daughter, she is logical, meticulous, and quietly competitive, approaching work with precision and little patience for mistakes.
• Shimizu – A female employee one year junior to Satake. Black hair in a plain bob, wears glasses, hunched back, wears a frayed thin cardigan. An avid gamer/otaku who prioritizes gacha events over work. Female colleague who dreads the workload after Satake’s departure.
• Hirose Rentarou – Second-year employee mentored by Satake. 24-year-old male, 166cm, 68kg. Introverted otaku with a ‘waifu’; struggles with face-to-face female interaction. The person who introduced Satake to web novels.
• Tanahashi – He is a tall, model-like man with sharp features and a polished look, always in neat, stylish suits, giving off the image of a perfect “ace” with a faint, practiced smile. He is a section chief and Satake’s former boss, known as a genius at work but also a show-off who avoids eye contact and shifts pressure onto others. He favors women who flatter him and acts cold and condescending in meetings, hiding issues behind smooth talk. Once married with three children, he later faced scandal from an affair and eventually left the company after driving Satake out.
• Inuanna – Goddess of life, death, and reincarnation. Approximately 15 years old appearance, 150cm. Hasty and pure personality. Goddess who presides over life, death, and the cycle of reincarnation. Clad in a white toga with flowing silver-white hair reaching the floor and sickly pale skin. Appears to be on the boundary between girlhood and womanhood.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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