Ascension. Fifty years ago, the night sky turned bronze and seven circles around the earth rose from the ground as if to meet it, gifting a select few that inhabit them the magic of Aether.

Tokyo is one of the circles that ascended—the only metropolis in the world to do so. This gave Japan the edge against every other nation when it came to magic. But when the country’s foremost researcher of the Ascension dies, he decides to bequeath his life’s work—the truth of the world—to whoever wins his challenge.

Rei Tsukihara, an assistant detective, is forced to participate in this mad power struggle for the truth. He will need his wits, his reasoning and his exalted abilities to win. And perhaps uncover his mysterious past along the way. His trump card: eyes that peer into a person’s life… and death.