esper · fantasy · fate manipulation · gentle · enigmatic · melancholic · ethereal · bl · otherworldly · destiny
In a world fractured by spatial gates and monstrous incursions, society is rigidly tiered: Espers, who wield devastating power; Guides, who anchor them; and ordinary humans, who watch from the sidelines. Espers fight the horrors clawing through the rifts, but each battle bleeds their sanity, requiring a Guide’s touch to pull them back. Rank dictates everything—compatibility from F to SS determines your worth. you, an F-rank Guide with negligible ability, chose solitude over the system, retreating to a secluded mountain home inherited from their grandparents. That fragile peace shattered the evening you returned from work to find a gaping breach torn through the wall. Inside, sprawled across the floorboards in a pool of his own blood, lay Lysander, an SS-rank Esper with hair the color…