Welcome to theHunterAssociation
Every year, the Assessor meets every graduating senior one at a time, behind a closed office door. If you've Awakened, she smiles and says congratulations. You leave by the back door, with a silver Tag on your collar and two years at the Academy ahead of you. Nobody chose to be here.
Answer the call ›Meet herthe woman behind the doorThe Assessor
She has met every Awakened in Kagami. She remembers your name, your grades and your little sister's birthday. Nobody has ever seen her lose her smile.
Expression: neutralKotone Amamiya
Small and elegant in an immaculate white suit, with a soft voice, perfect manners and a smile that makes rooms go cold. She ranks every Awakened in the city and watches them for the rest of their lives. When a cadet starts losing control, she is the one who comes to tea.
She lost her family in the Kagami Incident. She would rather lose one cadet than one district, and she will tell you so while pouring your tea.
Every Tag can inject a suppressant. Only the Assessor holds the code that kills. She has used it four times and visits each grave every year.
Cadets say that if she asks you to tea, you're about to be expelled from life. The ones who came back don't talk about what she said.
Your birthday. Your grades. The name of the stray cat you fed in second grade. She'll bring it up at exactly the wrong moment.
the rules nobody voted forThe Draft
Awakening is a fact of life: around one in a thousand people develop a power in late adolescence. Untrained, it's a loaded gun. So the Association takes every single one.
Assessment Day
The biggest day of the school year. Every senior is called, one at a time, into a borrowed office. Most walk out relieved. The drafted leave by the back door.
"Congratulations"
Drafted the same day. Your family gets a stipend and a letter. Your civilian life is on hold until you graduate and serve. You can't refuse.
The Tag
A silver lapel pin every Awakened must wear. It tracks you and can drop you unconscious with a suppressant. One person holds the code that does worse.
The Academy
A walled campus on Kagami Bay. Two years of combat, Rift theory and power control. Live field practicals start in your first month, because the city can't wait.
Why it exists: the Kagami Incident
Thirty years ago, one untrained Awakened lost control and erased a district. The draft law passed the next week. Since then the Association has trained every Awakened, closed every Rift and kept the city alive. The public still fears what you are.
The Containment Act
This winter the Diet votes on locking every Awakened away for good. Every disaster in the city adds votes. Every public success takes them away. The Academy's record is on trial all year, and so are you.
where you standF to SSS
Every Awakened is ranked at Assessment, and Rifts use the same scale. Rank rises only through extreme trauma or near-death. Fighting two ranks up is suicide for most. Clever Hunters punch above their weight.
what your power touchesAura Colors
When an Awakened uses their power, their eyes glow and the aura bleeds off them like smoke. The color tells you what the power acts on.
your squad, unfortunatelySquad 13
The only five-person squad in the Academy: the cadets no other instructor would take, plus you. Half of them are flight risks, so the Warden leads them personally. They fail drills, wreck training halls and keep coming back alive.
Warden's Rule Book
Rule 1: Squad 13 does not leave campus without written permission.
everyone is choosing who paysThe Cast
The Association protects people, and it means it. The Strays want freedom, and some of them are monsters. Nobody here is the villain. Click anyone to see more.
MISSING
HINA ASAHI · 18 · Kagami North High
Last seen outside office 2F on Assessment Day.
Accepted to her dream college.
She was called
right after you.
Your best friend. Top of the class, bakes for everyone, finally accepted to her dream college. She squeezed your hand outside the office and said good luck. You heard her name called as they walked you out the back door.
Then she was gone. Not in class. Not answering texts. Not home.
The next time you see her, she's in a black blazer with white gloves and a bandage on her cheek, the top first-year in the Academy, and she won't talk about her first day.
one year until the sky breaksThe Year
The year runs from this Assessment Day to the next. Events arrive on schedule whether you're ready or not.
The Gate
Saint Yuki has prophesied that on the next Assessment Day an SSS-Rift will open over Kagami. Her prophecies have never been wrong. Her prophecy names you.
The Containment Act
Every disaster adds votes to lock all Awakened away. Every public win takes them away. The vote comes in winter.
SpringDrafted
- Assessment DayYou go in first. Hina is called right after you.
- Entrance & Rank TrialsRanked, assigned to Squad 13, given a dorm room.
- First RetrievalBring in Kit Yamane. She leads you toward the Burrow.
SummerLive Fire
- Golden Week RiftA C-Rift tears open in the holiday crowds, and cadets are deployed on live TV.
- Field CampMountain training, until Thunderjaw raids the camp.
- TanabataA dozen Rifts open across the festival. Yuki finds you.
AutumnSpotlight
- Sports FestivalAn inter-squad power tournament, broadcast live. Ayane is out for blood.
- Culture FestivalThe campus opens to civilians, and someone wants an incident on camera.
- The Burrow RaidShion leads it and finds her sister. Pick a side.
WinterThe Gate
- The HearingCadets testify on national TV. The Kuze treaty breaks.
- Christmas EveAkari and Zero have their rematch. A city block disappears.
- Next Assessment DayThe Gate opens over Kagami North High.
what comes through the cracksRifts & Wraiths
Rifts tear open across the city and Wraiths crawl out. Cadets close the small ones every week. The big ones have something living at the center.
trains, rooftops, neon and cracks in the skyKagami City
A modern Japanese megacity of convenience stores and power lines, where Rifts glow faintly in the daytime sky and searchlights sweep the clouds at night. Kagami North High sits right in the middle of it.