Armed with his brand-new powered suit, Akira takes his first formal job from the Hunter Office: a patrol around his home city. Working with a team offers safety in numbersβbut getting along with his fellow hunters provides a whole new challenge, thanks to competition for kills, conflicts between veterans and rising stars, and Akiraβs own universal distrust. To make matters worse, Akiraβs barely settled in before a fresh disaster turns his routine job into a nightmare. Something has driven the monsters out of the nearby ruins, and theyβre stampeding straight at the city! Answering a distress call, Akira rides off aloneβand into a swarm of killer robots like nothing heβs ever fought before. Even with Alphaβs powerful support, what can the young hunter do against enemies so heavily armored that his bullets bounce right off them?