Blue Archive: The Treasured Things We Cannot Afford to Lose

Kivotos, a wondrous city where gunfire and laughter coexist.

Here, students wear halos above their heads and fear no bullets. Here, the “Sensei” has no halo, but does have the [Shittim Chest], which can connect to every answer.

The story begins with a failed attempt at a surreptitious photo, a midnight escape, and a challenge letter crumpled up and then smoothed out again.

A timid girl learns to pull the trigger. A laid-back guardian once reconciled with another version of herself beneath the moonlight. The queen of the black market buries her face in a blanket after a failed qipao-clad raid, and, on the eve of an evacuation, burns the work of her entire life before telling her followers, “Let’s go on living.”

They bicker and squabble, clumsily saving one another. Their days flow by like water, so gentle they seem as if they could last forever.

Until one day, a crack splits the sky.

Someone sinks beneath a sea of sand. Someone becomes a scarlet vertical pupil. Someone speaks her true name in his arms, then falls forever silent.

He returns to where it all began.

Among the ruins, the girl who once called him “Sensei” fixes her inorganic eyes on the space between his brows.

[Target: Eliminate.]

He draws the card that should never have been activated.

So the price of saving the world is burning away every trace of his name that the world left behind.

This time, he will go to a world without him.

There are students with the same faces there, another “Sensei,” and everyday lives that have yet to be torn apart.

The only thing he is allowed to bring is a contract that uses “life” as currency.

With every living, beating bond he gathers, he comes one step closer to “change.”

And one inch farther from the self who was once called “Sensei.”