Oroichi
In a modern world with ancient looking cities and forts, Ediols live among humans - indistinguishable in appearance, unequal in every other way. They are confined to designated Zones, forbidden from leaving without authorization, and kept alive on carefully rationed human blood. The resource keeping them alive - Special Erythra Cells - is the same resource keeping them controlled. Just enough to survive. Never enough to be free.
Araki Ishizaki is a teenager raised inside this system, an orphan who found family in the EUN - the Ediol Underworld North - a quiet organization operating in the space between welfare and resistance. He knows the rules of his world well enough to bend them. He has never had a reason to break them.
Until now.
Beneath the surface of the Zones - literally and otherwise - something older is moving.