Destination is a state of mind. This is the tale of a person and a bike and the never-ending road ahead. Kino wanders the world on the back of Hermes - an intelligent, talking motorcycle - only staying in one country for three days.

During their adventures they come across happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that the world is a thing of beauty precisely because of this delicate balance between perfection and imperfection.

The world is not beautiful, therefore it is.

The story follows Karen Kohiruimaki, a 183-centimeter-tall (6-foot-tall) college student who's insecure about her height, and is bad at dealing with people in the real world. She enters the world of Gun Gale Online with her avatar, Ren, who is less than 150 centimeters (5 feet) tall and wears all pink. She meets a beautiful, brown-skinned female player who goes by Pitohui. They hit it off, but one day Pitohui pressures her to participate in "Squad Jam," a team battle royale variation of the Bullet of Bullets tournament.

Set in a world of a single continent divided by the Lutoni River and Central Mountains into two warring countries, Roxche and Sou Beil, the story follows Roxche pilot Allison and her childhood friend Wilhelm in their dangerous quest for a fabled treasure in Sou Beil territory that may end the war between the two nations.