Arata Renji is thirty-four, a man who buried his youth under commutes and deadlines, wondering if his life would ever matter. Then a flash of blinding light tears him from Tokyo and casts him into Caelestia, a sky-city of crystal towers adrift above the abyss.

There, the radiant being Elyon offers him a choice: return to obscurity—or inherit the First Flame, a power said to sear even fate itself.

He accepts.

Reborn with the dreaded Draconic Eyes—gems of fire that burn through lies and consume their wielder—Arata learns that every spark devours a piece of him. The world hails him as a hero, yet whispers that his flame will one day reduce them to ash.

When a demon woman he saves binds her soul to his, Arata realizes the true cost of power is not the battles he wins, but the bonds he risks setting alight.

As cities fracture and the abyssal generals march, one question remains:
Will Arata rise as humanity’s shield—or ignite as the fire that ends it?