The Qwaser of Stigmata

After her father—the former headmaster of Saint Mikhailov Academy—vanishes without explanation, Tomo Yamanobe is left with only a single clue: a religious artwork known as the “icon.” Not long afterward, unsettling rumors ripple through the school about a serial killer targeting female students.

On the way home from another day of harassment, Tomo and her friend Mafuyu Oribe come across an injured, silver-haired boy who disappears as suddenly as he appeared. Mafuyu’s search leads her to the church that houses the icon—now engulfed in flames—where she’s attacked by the suspected killer wielding an eerie power over magnesium. The same silver-haired boy returns to save her, revealing his own ability to command iron.

Mafuyu soon learns his name is Alexander Nikolaevich “Sasha” Hell, a “qwaser” who draws strength from “soma,” obtained through breastfeeding. Shaken but unable to escape the situation, she finds Sasha transferring into her class the very next day, pulling her and Tomo into a school life shadowed by other qwasers and the threat closing in around them.