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The Republic of San Magnolia claims its war against the Giadian Empire is fought without human casualties, but that story hides a brutal truth. Beyond its eighty-five recognized sectors, the people of the so-called Eighty-Sixth Sector are forced to pilot the weapons the Republic publicly calls unmanned. Vladilena Milizé becomes the remote Handler of the Spearhead Squadron and refuses to treat its soldiers as disposable numbers. On the battlefield, Shinei Nouzen leads comrades who rarely survive long enough to go home. As Lena and Shin begin to understand one another across the distance separating them, the lies sustaining this bloodless war become harder to ignore.