In true isekai fashion, Yuusuke is whisked away to another world, in such immediate teleportation that it defies the known laws of physics. He rolls for a class and lets his party down when fate gives him the "farmer" profession. With Yuusuke's poor abilities, he dies quickly, but resurrects. Yuusuke realizes that he cannot die and begins to treat his life like its value is nothing. Then Yuusuke learns something that sobers him into focus: if everyone in the party dies, everyone dies for real.

In Dragon's Dogma, Ethan has a modest life with a wife and a baby on the way. Without warning, this life is ripped from Ethan, as a dragon destroys his village and takes everything from him. The dragon, sensing bloodlust from Ethan, turns his attention to him and consumes only his heart before challenging Ethan to find him if he wants to fulfill a death wish. Ethan survives somehow and becomes an Arisen, a being whose heart has been eaten by a dragon and lives to slay it.