It began with an experiment. Her parents - taken. Her grandmother - stolen from her arms on the night of her twentieth birthday, by something that should never have existed. Kurokami Garan swore she would find the man responsible. Five years later, Zako Kashnikov finds her first. He brings with him the Blazing Girl - a weapon built from fire and something older - and Garan loses. Completely. Undeniably. But Zako lets her live. Why? That decision changes everything. Because now Garan isn't just hunting revenge. She's hunting the reason she's still breathing - and she's beginning to suspect the answer is worse than anything Zako could have done to her. "Whatever he intends for me - I've stopped caring. I don't need a purpose. I don't need hope. I only need one reason to keep standing. Hatred has always been enough. For now, it still is." - Kurokami Garan