Memory theft doesn't scare you until you realize the victims can't remember they lost anything. Azaka tears through a school where something ageless and cruel is rewinding students into blankness, and the investigation becomes personal the moment you understand what she's protecting. The action is vicious, the mystery unfolds like a trap closing, and by the end you're left wondering what memories matter enough to fight for.
At Reien Academy, students are vanishing into blank shells of themselves, their memories erased as if they never existed. Azaka Kokutou, a young mage still learning her craft, finds herself tasked with uncovering the source of these disappearances. Her mentor's orders are clear, but the mystery runs deeper than a simple supernatural disturbance. Alongside Shiki, whose own peculiar nature proves invaluable, Azaka pursues a case that blurs the line between the mundane world and something far stranger. The investigation pulls them through shifting layers of reality where fairy tales become lethal. What begins as a search for missing students transforms into a confrontation with forces that operate by their own twisted logic. Time itself becomes unreliable as Azaka pieces together the connection between the stolen memories and an otherworldly presence that feeds on forgotten things. The case demands more than spell work and magical knowledge. It demands understanding what the fairies want, why they hunger, and whether some stories demand an ending no one survives.