World of Human Figures

"Variant-Humanoid-Machine," or "VHM," appeared 30 years ago. It is a form of "Combat-Humanoid-Machine" whose independent thought has awakened. This happened because the nanomachines that serve as information-transmission and auxiliary-processing modules mutated. After 30 years of transformation, they seem to be searching for a human whose flesh-and-blood body also contains mutated nanomachines, a "king" who can guide them...