Seventeen-year-old Shen Zhou came from the countryside to Novara, a prosperous and beautiful northern city with lights that stay on all night. He stayed in a detective agency on Iris Street and transferred to the San Luca College, the best private school in the area. It seemed like it was just an ordinary boy's educational journey.
But beneath Novara's glossy exterior, there's an undercurrent.
A supernatural phenomenon called "awakening" is quietly spreading. Some humans gained the ability to control elements and spirits, while others died in pain from the "awakening fever". Some people see the Awakened as the future of evolution, some see them as a threat that must be eradicated, and some are secretly weaving a large network covering the entire city to bring all the Awakened under their control.
Shen Zhou originally had nothing to do with this - he was an ordinary person with no special powers. He just wanted to study hard and cure his heart disease. But his strange-colored pupils seemed destined to prevent him from staying away.
The mysterious missing awakener, the watcher hidden in the campus, the mysterious school girl who offered him an olive branch, the wandering painter who drew his portrait, and the whisper of "you shouldn't be here" - Shen Zhou unknowingly stepped into the dark side of Novara step by step.
And from the moment he stopped in front of the painting stall in the central square, the real chess game in this city had just begun.
Intention: warmth