A frozen wasteland stretches under a sky the color of dead static, and a man who was never supposed to be here opens his eyes inside a body that is not his. The world is Galdica, a continent shattered by the Rekkyou War — a conflict waged not with soldiers but with "Aspects," humans who bond with mythological weapons that whisper their own names. The boy he now inhabits is nameless, clanless, and already bleeding out in the snow.

Then the sky splits. A pillar of light descends, and a woman with burning gold hair steps down onto the ice. She carries a bow named Járnsaxa, and the arrow she nocks is aimed directly at his heart. She says she has been hunting him across three continents. She says he does not remember the crime yet. And she says the Aspect sleeping inside his chest — a sword that has not spoken aloud in a thousand years — is the only weapon capable of killing the gods who started the war. The huntress becomes an unwilling ally. The boy becomes a battlefield. And the war that was supposed to be over is only now beginning to show its true shape.

Also known as: Rekkyou Sensen, 劣強戦線, Rekkyō Sensen, Frontlines of the Inferior.