Akio crosses the Capitol courtyard to roaring cheers

Inhuman Version · with Akio

Life inthe city

Here, almost everyone has a power. Screens blast the T.A.X’s latest feats, schools fight over the top students… and Akio is the best of them all.

The Capitol’s prodigy

Akio wakes up under a T.A.X poster
Today’s the big day!

Akio, 17. One dream: join the T.A.X.

Mina waves to Akio at the Capitol gates
Akioooo! Go crush it!
Akio blocks three opponents with his barrier

Final exam. Three on one. Fire, wind, stone… nothing gets through the Absolute Barrier.

Akio smirks, full of confidence
Next!
The T.A.X strikes a pose on a rooftop as the crowd cheers

The T.A.X: six heroes, millions of fans. Tonight, Captain Vael hands his medal to the top student.

Akio unleashes a huge hexagonal barrier

ABSOLUTE
BARRIER!!

The Imprint of Awakening

Ability
Absolute Barrier
Level
Advanced Mastery (rare at 17)
What it does
Creates hexagonal shields that block attacks, impacts, even other powers.
Its limit
The bigger the shield, the more it drains Akio. Push past that, and the Imprint goes out of control.

Strange thing: Akio’s barrier is always stronger when he’s protecting someone who counts on him. Nobody ever noticed…

The day everything changed

Captain Vael hands Akio a medal
The T.A.X is waiting for you, Akio.
Three masked figures on a rooftop

On the rooftops, the Return Front, radical Humans, had been waiting for this moment.

An explosion rocks the academy as Akio turns around
Mina trapped under rubble, Akio racing toward her

MINAAA !!

Akio shields Mina under a cracking barrier
Hang on… I won’t let go!

He pushes his barrier further than ever. Too far.

Akio’s eye turns into a star as black cracks spread A beast of black energy with a star on its chest roars

Akio enters Rupture. The prodigy becomes a Bestial.

The Rupture

Hold the circle to help Akio resist. You won’t make it: the Rupture is stronger than him. But watch closely what happens next.

Mina reaches out to the beast instead of running
Akio… thank you for protecting me.

Everyone runs. Except Mina.

A small hand touches the beast’s claw, and light bursts out
Akio, human again, in Mina’s arms

Against all logic, he turns human again. No one had ever come back from a Rupture.

…Mina? What did I do?

From hero to threat

The T.A.X surrounds Akio and Mina, weapons drawn
Don’t move. You’re a threat.
Vael slips a Lock ring onto Akio’s finger

The Lock: a ring that suppresses the Imprint. Akio can never take it off.

Akio alone on a train heading to a fortress

Destination: the Bastion. The school for the ones nobody wants.

Akio arrives at the Bastion as Kaël and Séria watch him
So you’re the monster who came back?

Kaël, the strongest at the Bastion. And Séria, who hears him… without him saying a word.

Akio, Kaël, Séria and Inoé run through a ruined prison

First mission: catch an escaped Bestial. The missions even the T.A.X avoids.

And that new kid, always smiling…

Inoé arrived the same day as Akio. Funny, kind, a little too perfect. What nobody knows: he comes from under the domes.

See his story on the Human side →

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