A Place Where Light Doesn't Enter

Buildings are sometimes swallowed by darkness. The black fluids that consume the buildings undergo transformations and attack the people inside. The only ones capable of defeating them are the disaster civil servants possessed of special abilities. The ability to harden shadows into weapons—only that can slice through the fluids that have swallowed the buildings. However, there was a fatal flaw: the more they used their abilities, the more poison spread through their bodies, making it impossible to continue working. While healers could remove the accumulated poison, they could not provide complete detoxification and regeneration. That required affection and erotic contact. Consequently, mos...