The cockpit's inner wall is carved with 437 names. They belong to the people who died in the mining disaster: his father, his neighbors, everyone he knew. Ye Xinghe was once a genius at Dawn Academy. After being framed and expelled, he thought his life would be reduced to scavenging on a trash planet. But the Eye of the Abyss would not even grant him that small mercy. They blew up the mine, erased 437 lives, and left him as the sole witness. He put on the old flight suit his father had left behind and climbed into the rusted “Ancient Soul” mech. No one told him this scrap of metal had once been the ultimate weapon of the Cronus Empire. No one told him the 99 marks carved into the cockpit's inner wall belonged to 99 souls it had devoured. And no one told him that every time he started it up, he would lose a piece of himself. Revenge is both fuel and a prison. He meets a female pirate who protects herself with thorns, a quiet boy who carries the same blood feud, and a younger sister who believes that the universe's rebirth will bring her parents back. They all ask him the same question: When all 437 names have been carved, what will you have left? He doesn't know. He only knows that if he doesn't keep moving forward, those names will become him. And the terrifying thing is, he has already carved the first mark belonging to himself into the cockpit of the Ancient Soul.
