Director-General McCarter of the Larnachian Armed Forces expected to have a bad day. He did not, however, expect to suddenly have a quartet of psychic assassin child soldiers thrust into his care by a mad scientist. In a conflict where superhuman magic-wielding insurgents are fought with railguns and powered exoskeletons and gruesome cybernetics, it's hard to say whether they are an atrocity or a necessity. As the six-year-long Sparkwielder crisis draws close to a violent crescendo, the young yet weary General endeavours to give these poor souls a life worth living – and perhaps they'll teach him how to live again, too.