It's just another grey, stormy morning at Xanthic Cross game studios, where Nefarioun Crisis and her fellow coders trade their hours for a living wage. But the office's "camaraderie-building" annual betting pool is about to take a turn for the surreal. When Nefarioun places a casual two-dollar wager on an underdog track-and-field runner named Yeon Blast, she inadvertently triggers the ever-vigilant ears of her resident genie, Disco.
What should have been a simple race becomes a reality-shattering event as a magically "enhanced" energy drink sends Yeon Blast into a physics-defying time paradox, winning the race 40, 000 times over...and sending the city's bookmakers into a panicked flight. But this chaos is only beginning. Back at the apartment, a storm-induced blackout threatens to keep Nefarioun from the seasonal anime she lives for.
It's just another grey, stormy morning at Xanthic Cross game studios, where Nefarioun Crisis and her fellow coders trade their hours for a living wage. But the office's "camaraderie-building" annual betting pool is about to take a turn for the surreal. When Nefarioun places a casual two-dollar wager on an underdog track-and-field runner named Yeon Blast, she inadvertently triggers the ever-vigilant ears of her resident genie, Disco.
What should have been a simple race becomes a reality-shattering event as a magically "enhanced" energy drink sends Yeon Blast into a physics-defying time paradox, winning the race 40, 000 times over...and sending the city's bookmakers into a panicked flight. But this chaos is only beginning. Back at the apartment, a storm-induced blackout threatens to keep Nefarioun from the seasonal anime she lives for.