embers of dawn, kaiju no. eight

"Please . . . don't make me go out there."

Akane never wanted to fight kaiju. She trembles at the sight of them, prays for missions to pass her by, and begs her commanders not to deploy her. But fate has bound her to the Defense Force's most dreaded weapon-Numbers Zero, forged from the corpse of Kaiju No. 0, the monster that once incinerated millions in a single explosion.

To the world, she is humanity's trump card. To her comrades, she is a walking omen called Ground Zero. To herself, she is nothing but a prisoner inside a coffin of fire.

When unleashed, Akane's flames can level a city. Yet behind the armor is a girl who fears she's no savior at all, but the spark of another catastrophe waiting to ignite.

In a war where every life counts, what happens when humanity's strongest weapon doesn't want to fight?