Atlas Academy—on the surface, an elite learning environment designed by the Japanese nobility to encourage self-reliance and the pursuit of one's own happiness. A place to nurture students who find themselves an anomaly—students who have been rejected by society. A home for elites.

Whatever the circumstances about its creation, there is but one thing that can be said.

「This academy is not normal.」

Ishimura Shou. Born the second child of an affair. Disowned at age sixteen and transferred to the far-off island city of Ichihama. Abnormal hair. Gentle features. An anomaly, but one rended mundane in the city of Ichihama; a nursing ground for the abnormal. Students enrolled into prestigious academies with genius level intellects, and being different was the city's normal. To stand out in Ichihama, one had to be a monster.

Arriving on an academic visa, Ishimura's journey was about to begin. And perhaps, in this place ruled by monsters, Ishimura would surpass them all.