Ray's climb towards becoming a super paladin continues, but it's never as easy as anyone hopes. While walking the streets of Gideon, When fighting off a band of hoodlums harassing a young woman, he meets a flamboyant new ally named Hugo, and the two decide to cooperate in order to take down a nefarious criminal group known as the Gouz-Maise gang. But little did Ray know that this seemingly simple rescue mission would cement just how gruesome a reality the world of Infinite Dendrogram could become. Can Ray keep his in-game life -- and dignity -- intact, or is he just another cog in the machine of Infinite Dendrogram?