Humans have always wondered why we exist in the first place.

  How our consciousness is formed cannot be explained by any sort of scientific statements.

  But it can be explained using magic.

  Mana represents the energy of life.

  The soul is a reservoir to store mana.

  Those who are able to manipulate their soul are called Witches, a sub class of humans with the ability to bend reality itself.

  But with power, comes the fear of control. For centuries, humanity's response to this difference had been a brutal, unyielding campaign of fear.

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  Witches were a minority, with enough people, power can be contained by the powerless. The whispers of old witch hunts still echoed in the shadows, a dark testament to the fragile line between awe and terror. Witches were not seen as individuals, but as anomalies, aberrations, 'cursed children' whose very existence threatened the established order.

  Their gifts, once revered, became curses, their power, a mark of monstrosity. Society, in its desperate need for control, built walls not of brick and mortar, but of prejudice, legislation, and cold, hard cash.

  Children born with mana were often disowned, sold, or worse, reduced to tools. They were livestock in human skin, their souls a reservoir of untapped power, their lives dictated by the whims of a fearful world. This was the era into which Hoshimi Shirogane was born, a world where the word 'witch' was not a title, but a sentence. And for some, a death knell.