
A Crimson Pact Responder and his bonded Stimulus partner are sent to put down a wildling — a Stimulus who lost their Responder and is turning into a monster. When the wildling turns out to be his childhood friend, he breaks protocol to save her instead, and the fallout cracks open a secret his own faction has been burying: this isn't the first time it's happened. Dark fantasy shōnen set in the Known Continent, where power is forged between bonded pairs and the truth about the Cataclysm still hides beyond the Verge.