Desire Is Born a Beast

Nine years ago, seven disasters destroyed the Ninth Containment District in a single night. Adrian Ford was the only child found alive. The people responsible marked him dead anyway.

Now seventeen, Adrian wants only one thing: to survive long enough to graduate.

After an unregistered fire ability erupts during a desire beast attack, he is forcibly enrolled at Seven Virtues Academy, where students train to hunt monsters born from human desire. Officially, Adrian is an F-rank perception type who can see the traces those monsters leave behind. Unofficially, seven foreign heartbeats have been beating inside his chest since the night the district fell.

When sealed specimens begin to wake and buried records resurface, Adrian and his newly formed team are drawn toward the truth behind Experiment 07.

A desire beast is not merely a monster.
It is a choice that outlived the person who made it.

And the most dangerous desires may already be inside him.

Expect a dark academy fantasy featuring psychological monsters, team-based combat, mystery, and a dryly sarcastic protagonist who would rather repair a broken machine than explain his feelings.