VOL 1 - HEART OF SKY (2ND EDITION ENG/JP)
THE OLD SPIRIT GODS, THE NETARI, LIVED AMONG ANCIENT HUMANS WHO OFFERED FLESH AND BLOOD IN SACRIFICE TO GIVE THEM PHYSICAL HUMAN FORM.
BUT BRUTAL CORRUPTION, GREED AND OVER CONSUMPTION BY THE NETARI EVENTUALLY DROVE THE HUMANS AWAY. FACING OBLIVION, THE NETARI TURNED TO THEIR ANCIENT MAGIC: BUT THE RITUAL NEEDED A HUMAN KEY, A SPECIAL SPIRIT WHOSE BLOODY DEMISE COULD GIVE THEM BACK THEIR POWER. OCOTE, A NEWLY APPOINTED OFFICIAL, WAS SENT FROM THE NETARI CITY OF TORANA TO HUNT DOWN THE HUMAN KEY FOR SACRIFICE. JERICO, AN EXILED NETARI KING, EMERGES TO PREVENT THEM FROM CAPTURING THE SPECIAL YOUNG HUMAN. CAN JERICO GET TO THE YOUNG HUMAN BEFORE OCOTE DOES? |
VOL 2 - HART AND HIND (ENG/JP)
AFTER NARROWLY ESCAPING OCOTE'S DEATH GATE, EXILED NETARI KING JERICO CROSSES INTO THE NETHERWORLD WITH HIS COMPANION KAZUMII AND THE SPIRIT OF THE HUMAN KEY. RECOVERED BY LOCAL, YOUNG SPIRIT GUARDIANS , JERICO AND KAZUMII SEEK HELP FROM THEIR LEADER TO PROTECT JUN'S SPIRIT AND KEEP IT FROM FALLING BACK INTO THE NETARI'S HANDS. WEAKENED BY THE JUMP FROM THE MUNDANE WORLD JERICO'S STRUGGLE TO CONTROL HIS NETARI BLOOD LUST THREATENS TO JEOPARDIZE EVERYTHING HE AND KAZUMII HAVE FOUGHT FOR. AS THEIR PLANS FALL APART CAN THEY STILL PROTECT JUN? THE FATE OF THE YOUNG HUMAN KEY IS SOON INTERTWINED IN THEIR OWN. |
Vol 3 - Swan's Winter
after days of jerico lying unconscious in yasurs care, Kazumii and caya agree to release the human key into death with the help of the danau elders. Meanwhile ocote brings the human vessels from the cafe to the Netari city of Torana, reviving the Netari court. once awakened they demand that he recover Jun's soul and revive his body to complete Sarcon's fusion gate. the completed gate would release them from their exile in the spirit worlds to enjoy humans and the many physical delights of the mundane world. |