Within a distant future, the empires of mankind span the galaxy, and glorious Earth has devolved into a peripheral backwater. In Shanjing city in the Asian region, Wang Zhengs dreams to become a mech pilot are crushed when his college or university access exam genetic score works out a pathetic 28, barely above an animal. To create things worse, people receive the impression he attempted suicide after being rejected by the campus beauty. Then your closest thing to a family group he has, the old man in the book store over the road, goes missing, leaving him only a mysterious birthday present.