Blessing City is a city composed of protection groups that function as agents of public and civil order. These groups mainly protect against local attacks from invasive fauna that inhabit the world of Orbis Magna, specifically from a group of creatures known as Ambers, which at times attempt to establish themselves aggressively within urban zones.

Night has fallen over the city, and at this very moment an invasion of Amber creatures is beginning to unfold.

“Protection squads, move to District Three! Ambers entering the area!” one of the city’s military monitoring operators announces through a surveillance camera network. The moment the alert is issued, protection agents receive their orders through earpiece devices.

Units from across the city mobilize at high speed, deploying in cars and motorcycles, racing through the streets to confront the invading threats.

The Amber creatures have begun to destroy everything in their path, attacking civilians with extreme violence.

Many of the squads attack using firearms, various types of deployable technological weapons, and also through the use of special civilian powers known as Kinesis, which are used in projectile form.

In this city, there are people who possess control over certain abilities referred to as Kinesis, and it is precisely this that enables the designation of ranks from C to S.

The Ambers of this world reproduce at an extremely rapid rate. Because of this, conflicts with them are very frequent, since no matter how thoroughly they are exterminated in cities around the world, urban centers continue to suffer constant invasions. Human territories tend to attract them due to the skyscrapers of the cities, as these beasts often build their nests at great heights.

Among all the agents currently operating in protection service, a certain girl from one of the squads stands out for her combat skill and capability. She has short chestnut-colored hair and carries a technological staff through which she deploys abundant, intense orange electricity. She appears to prefer working alone, independently, rather than operating in coordinated teams like many of the others.

She moves at great speed toward the conflict zone and attacks the invading enemies with precision—various Amber creatures of reddish, yellow, and green hues. All of these beasts vary greatly in size and shape. They do not share a defined species structure; the only thing they all have in common is the amber-like material that forms their bodies.

This girl, an electrokinesis user, has single-handedly annihilated dangerous creatures with strange bodies and sharp teeth, beasts that violently attack everything in their path.

The orange electrokinesis she emits disintegrates the monsters with each swing of her technological staff. In this way, she has defeated so many Ambers on her own that she has even deprived other members—supposedly her coworkers from the same district—of any chance to act.

Her name is Haruka Kazumi. She is a talented Superior-rank guardian with orange electrical power who has destroyed these monsters and saved countless lives in mere moments.

Once she finishes “clearing” the area of invaders, she reports back to central command via radio.

“District Three is under control. There is significant structural damage and many vehicles have been destroyed. Some people were injured, but at this time there are no confirmed civilian deaths in this district…” she reports, before cutting the transmission and concluding her task.

She retraces the streets she had sprinted through moments earlier, now walking slowly while casually playing with her electric staff, reducing its length through the weapon’s built-in technology.

Once its size has been minimized, she stores the weapon at her lower back, attaching it to her service uniform.

“I hope I find something worthwhile someday. I don’t think monsters of this rank will help me increase my power… Maybe I should join the army and look for more action of some kind…” she thinks to herself, considering alternatives for becoming stronger.

Suddenly, one of the GPS trackers provided by her protection faction alerts her to an anomaly that she and her team have been observing for several months. The radar consistently detects a type of frequency emitted by an anomalous energy source, handled by other strange groups that wander through the city from time to time—groups that have not yet been fully identified.

All teams had been instructed that whenever such anomalies were detected, they were to investigate immediately and report any readings obtained.

“Them!” she declares with a hint of excitement, knowing that these strange individuals wield powers not registered in the city’s database. As expected, she sets out to find them on her own—without notifying central command.

The anomaly does not appear as a precise point on the GPS device, but rather as a heat-radius covering a specific area.

She heads toward the location as fast as she can, driven by determination, as if she truly wants to find one of these mysterious enemies and confront them.

After running for quite some time, she arrives at a commercial plaza in District Three, weaving through crowds of people who are still nervous after the recent Amber attack.

Once there, she scans the area, searching for anyone who stands out in some way. However, none of the people around seem suspicious.

“Could it be that it’s not here, and the signal is coming from the underground shopping center? If that’s the case, I should go down there…” she mutters to herself as she heads toward the mall she mentioned. A full underground shopping center lies beneath the plaza she’s standing in, so it’s possible that the target isn’t on the surface, but below.

She moves toward the entrance to access the underground area, but suddenly her electrokinesis collides with what feels like a force field—an unexpected impact that strikes her from the side.

Nearby, there is a bench with two boys sitting on it. Both are wearing black athletic clothing. One of them turns toward her, looking shocked. The collision of energy came from the same direction where the two are seated, but what is most curious is the expression on one of the boys’ faces—he seems just as surprised by the force-field clash as she is.

His apparent friend is equally frightened after witnessing the strange electrical collision that occurred in seconds.

“What the hell was that, Tsuyoshi?!” the other boy exclaims.

That same boy—wearing a strange headband tied around his neck with black chains—looks away from Kazumi and continues talking to his friend, giving no importance to what just happened, despite how uncomfortable it could have been.

The collision of force fields produced a burst of sparks, frightening many pedestrians and causing several service robots in the area to flee in panic.

Those robots refuse to return anywhere near the boys.

Can robots feel fear?

Kazumi pushes that thought aside and looks back at her GPS. She notices that the radius of the strange energy has narrowed—coincidentally—to a much closer area.

She walks while watching the device, slowing down as she approaches the underground mall entrance. Just before passing through the automatic gates, she stops completely and turns toward the bench where the two boys are sitting.

“Could it be…?” she wonders, sweating slightly. The electrostatic sensation she felt earlier deeply unsettled her, disrupting her natural magnetic field in an unpleasant way.

Kazumi decides to turn back. Bravely, she walks toward them again, passing beside the boys once more—and the instant she does, her electrical field collides again with something she cannot comprehend. The same phenomenon occurs.

This time, she stares angrily at the same boy.

“What’s your problem?!” he snaps at her, his tone openly disrespectful.

Without thinking, Kazumi grabs her technological staff and swings it at him in an attempted strike. The boy effortlessly dodges the attack by tilting his head at just the right moment.

She continues her assault, forcing the young man to leap acrobatically off the bench to create distance.

This mysterious boy does not appear to be an ordinary civilian. He has evaded a series of complex attacks from someone accustomed to fighting dangerous creatures as if it were nothing.

“Identify yourself!” she demands.

“Why are you attacking me?! Are you crazy?!”

Her anger only intensifies, and she fires a pure electrokinesis blast at him. Her orange electricity shoots toward him at high speed, but with a simple backhand motion, he disintegrates the electrical surge completely—while also protecting the surrounding civilians.

In her desperation, she had attacked him without regard for civilians, nor for the possibility that he might have been a “normal” person.

Now the boy extends his arm toward her and releases a mysterious black power. Instinctively, Kazumi raises her staff, which takes the hit directly. Instantly, her phone, watch, communication devices, and weapon are fried. Everything electrical nearby begins to malfunction—security cameras and streetlights short out, plunging parts of the plaza into darkness.

Kazumi is left stunned. She has no idea what just happened. She looks at him with fear and resentment intertwined, memorizes his face, and then turns and runs away.

The other boy approaches the mysterious one, astonished.

“Incredible, man! I didn’t think you were that strong. You handled someone from the protection corps like it was nothing…” he says, still in shock.

The young man simply watches her disappear into the crowd.

“Do people just attack you here without reason? Is that normal?” the boy with the chains asks, bewildered.

“What? Ah… no, not really. Or at least, until today I didn’t think so…” his friend replies, suddenly unsure.

Meanwhile, Kazumi runs as fast as she can, escaping the area. She climbs the side of a nearby building, sticking to its surface and sprinting upward until she reaches the rooftop. There, she stops to catch her breath, throwing a tantrum fueled by rage—perhaps the same reason she had come up there in the first place.

She tries to contact her monitoring team and discovers her communicators are completely fried, as if they had been hit by electrokinesis as well. Her phone is destroyed. Her technological staff is ruined. But what hurts the most is her phone—it was a brand she had just bought, and it had cost her a lot of money.

She sits on the ground, devastated, even shedding a few tears like a child unaccustomed to losing.

“I hate you, whoever you are! I’ll make you pay for thiiis!” she screams with deep resentment, the image of that mysterious boy’s face burned into her mind.

She decides then to find a way to take revenge, if possible. She carefully memorizes the most essential features of his appearance, determined to identify him later and repay him somehow.

Who is that mysterious civilian who treated her as if she were nothing?

Information Piece: Amber Creatures

Across the universe, and even within other hierarchical planes of reality, there exists a vast group of beings known as Ambers. This is a global species designation that encompasses an innumerable number of subspecies, all of which are classified under the same name due to the material their bodies possess, since these creatures are, in fact, formed from a type of amber.

The amber material from which they are made possesses many special properties, and it causes the number and nature of the abilities these beings have to vary depending on the specific species being discussed. These creatures are generally considered local fauna in many worlds, and Orbis Magna is no exception.

Within the natural fauna of the world of Orbis Magna, many of these beings coexist as terrestrial animals. However, their immense versatility can be found across many other worlds, where they exist as aquatic creatures, aerial beings, insect-like organisms, inhabitants of subterranean regions, or even, on occasion, as forms of flora—among many other manifestations.