PROLOGUE

Halley – I know it's been some time that bad stuff had been happening, but I always minded how and why it was made possible. The Neuroi key distribution from the Second Neuroi War had to be stopped. But dark magic made into some sort of resource, is forbidden and much focused right now. If it was in the wrong hands, it could be catastrophic in almost every angle for except one: those who don't seem to believe the power of dark magic.

Kyoko and I have seen our share of dark magic users who applied it to themselves. It's rare, but we're able to take every single one of the experimented dark magic users down, not just by ourselves but by the whole team. With my Sierra team separated from Kyoko's Alpha team before, we worked dividedly at first, but we're able to get ourselves together when the situation calls for it. That's how Kyoko and I were able to be friends.

Hopefully nothing will change as we go through much more than usual.

My name is Halley Blomgren, Swedish region witch of Baltland... half Mermaid, and half human of a witch, with a wolf as my familiar, and runs out of control when I was untrained. But when I trained myself, I not only became stronger, but much more ruthless than before. I'm able to control my ruthlessness, but at times, I needed to let go by doing wicked stuff. I'm a good and bad package put together in one because I did bad stuff on the way to the present too: Being an incest, for example... and being a backstabber second.

That's how I made my history. There's a lot of good in it too. But enough about me. All that I did made a good result out of everything anyway... and the present is important more than ever. It was time to keep going...

...and by means of going somewhere, I meant prioritizing for something much worse now. As a UNIA Recon-Agent together with Kyoko, our tasks related in Task Force 16, the group we're both assigned in, was to take down parties using or distributing dark magic as a forbidden resource. However, something came up to our attention and we needed to get on it right away because the next set of missions we'd be having will be largely about the Neuroi.

The Neuroi were aliens that appeared even before the Second Neuroi War. It was mysterious how they're able to keep up from ancient times. And from rare to often until to the Second Neuroi War, that's when we realized we were facing an enemy that evolves with us. After we beat them and established peace in the beginning of the 50's, we thought it was over. We were wrong. As long as we're alive, it might have been predicted they'll be around for long. And the present proves it.

2015 is not the worst of times, but we're beginning to doubt that.

A lot of things are happening related to the Neuroi: Half of two joint fighter wings disappeared because of a Neuroi-based Time-jump. Thanks to that, none of us wanted to open a history book, because they'd be anywhere by now... and much worse if they're in the past.

Second is the fact a Neuroi-based virus has suddenly hacked in to our network. It appeared for exactly two minutes before it disappeared. How we'll be able to find the virus is unknown, but we already considered even our intelligence may be compromised, which is why every defense department with Cyber-Transition issues in mind put an intensely built firewall to counteract the virus. We needed to be prepared in case things go wrong. It doesn't have its own operating system or standards, which is why a firewall is not bad to start with in the first place.

UNIA also classified the idea of helping find the missing witches of the fighter wings with missing counts. They owe it to every witch who fights against the Neuroi. We at least have a common foe now, but with the virus out... it's all about a game of chess. Any one of us that moves too early, will be the victims. And we don't wanna start being the victims.

Here's the summary: We have a fucked up world... a fucked up life... and most especially a cunning opponent we should have held in our fingertips, but never did because they see our resistance from before, making them our worthy opponent from all our years. Now, it's different. The Neuroi want to destroy us, at least in my perspective.

So what happens now? Obviously... the Neuroi deserve payback. They want to hit us by using dark magic and this virus? We'll hit them back, and worse if ever we can. But it's only a matter of time until they make their move.

And we'll be ready for them...