Tokyo — where the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows. When you brush past a thousand shoulders a day, can you really be sure all of them are human?
Stray hearts gather at the crossroads, each with a wish they sold their soul to fulfill. The ordeals that await them will test their bonds and their hunger. Unveil the truth that lurks in the shadows.
You are a student, returning home from a concert on a Tokyo train, when suddenly the landscape around you twists and warps. A monstrous creature—an "anomaly"—attacks you, its body blooming with flowers and a single, giant eye fixed upon you. Before it can devour you, a blood-soaked young man with a gun drives it off, only to nearly throw you out the train window before another student in a school uniform intervenes.
When they fail to erase your memory, you are taken to Darkwick Academy—the most elite school in Japan, built on a man-made island in Tokyo Bay. There, the chancellor delivers the chilling truth: the anomaly cursed you, and you have only one year left to live.
Forced to enroll at Darkwick to research the curse before it consumes you, you stumble upon an anomaly that chooses you as its vessel, granting you the power to amplify a ghoul's "stigma." Now, as an inspector, you must join the ghouls—once-human students who sold their souls to demons for superhuman abilities—on dangerous missions to capture anomalies and uncover the secrets of this shadowy world.
Welcome to Darkwick Academy. Your year begins now.
