Unwittingly drawn into a kidnapping, university student Yuuya Nomoto discovers his friends brutally slain by Hitomi Uzaki, the high‑school girl they tried to abduct. Coerced into escorting her to a secret destination, he is then offered as the prize in a lethal showdown between two Therianthropes—human‑animal hybrids engineered through cutting‑edge gene editing. As one of these hybrids, Hitomi employs the swiftness and boldness granted by her ratel genes to ruthlessly eliminate her opponent, rescuing Yuuya from imminent death.
When he wakes hours later, convinced the ordeal was a dream, Yuuya learns he has been pulled into a clandestine proxy battle among four major Japanese conglomerates, the victor claiming dominion over the economy. As her lone—though reluctant—backer, his fate becomes inextricably tied to Hitomi"s capacity to compete in the covert blood‑sport contests known simply as Killing Bites.
