A mysterious being casts a small white orb unto the Earth. The Orb first takes on the form of a rock that spends an unmeasured amount of time lying there. One day, an injured white wolf collapses on top of the rock. The rock takes on the form of the now-dead wolf and wanders over to an encampment where most of the residents have died except for a cheerful boy. The boy recognizes the wolf and calls out to him as Joann. The boy packs up food and supplies to travel to a "paradise" beyond the mounta
The orb now wanders south in the form of the boy it met earlier. Not knowing how to act as a human, the boy dies multiple times from starvation, injury, and being eaten by a bear, but keeps regenerating itself each time. Meanwhile, a nearby village is about to sacrifice a little girl named March to appease a god named Oniguma. However, as the party carries March up the mountain to the altar, her friend Parona creates a diversion, allowing her to escape. As March runs away, she encounters the boy
Parona uses a hidden blade to cut her bonds free and escape as a giant bear mauls the retinue watching her, but tumbles over a cliff while escaping the bear herself. Meanwhile, Hayase and the rest of the party escorting March up the mountain finds March as she tries to teach the boy to eat like a human. Hayase carries March up the rest of the way to the altar after feeding her drugged jelly. After tying March to the altar, the giant bear reappears. Assuming the bear is Oniguma, Hayase and her es
Hayase escorts March, Parona, and the transforming wolf-boy (who March named Fushi) on a long ride to Yanome. Hayase lets them eat at various food stands, but soon slips them each sleeping drugs. When they wake up, Fushi is attacked by desperate prisoners who soon find that the boy is immortal, and Fushi learns a new phrase, "it hurts." Fushi transforms into a wolf to escape, but is shot by Yanome with a poisoned arrow. March tends to Fushi's wounds, and using the arrow stuck inside Fushi, Paron
Parona escapes with March, Fushi and the elder but is chased by the villagers from Yanome. When Parona is exposed to the enemies' attack, March sacrifices her life to save Parona. This causes Fushi to transform the bear and take down the enemies. After March dies, Parona gives the news about the death to March's parents. With Yanome soldiers wanting to capture Fushi, Parona convinces him to part ways and escape for sake of them both. Hayase spotted Fushi and she's about to shoot him with an arro
Fushi continues his journey through the forest, where he meets the elder Pioran once again, who teaches him how to speak after he shows interest in writing. After a while, Fushi is able to slowly speak with the elder, and even tells her his story. They later arrive at Takunaha, a territory currently at war with Yanome, aiming to reach the home of Pioran's lover. While resting, however, they are attacked by a mysterious creature who steals Fushi's memories and, therefore, his forms. Fushi's creat
Gugu is a child who works in shops to live but is abandoned by his older brother. Shortly afterwards, Gugu nearly dies in a rail road. However, he is saved by Pioran's lover, Booze Man, and is forced to wear a mask to hide his wounded face. It is then that Pioran and Fushi reach their restaurant, with the latter interacting with Gugu several times. However, the young boy is conflicted when his crush, Rean Cropp, becomes attracted to Fushi, and decides to work in order to appeal to her.
After an argument with the Booze Man, Gugu leaves the restaurant and tries working in the city. However, he is often the victim of discrimination upon revealing his deformed face to the point of quitting. Meanwhile, Fushi tries cooking and cleaning the restaurant but upon multiple failures, Pioran convinces him that he needs Gugu's help to learn new skills and then properly become an adult. Gugu struggles to obtain easy money with Rean's ring she gave him but ultimately gives it up to his missin
As Fushi treats a hungry Gugu, the former is taught by the latter about the concept of death and wonder how is it that he can take the form of the dead. Gugu feels relieved when Fushi agrees he will take Gugu's form to remember him if he dies in the same fashion Fushi did with March and the nameless villager. Rean finds the two and despite initially arguing with Gugu for not showing his face, the two befriend. As Fushi decides to search for Gugu's mask he abandoned to cover his deformed face, th
Although Fushi is defeated by the Nokkers, Gugu manages to save him thanks to the fire he can through thanks to Booze's mask. Afterwards, Gugu returns to the restaurant and teaches Fushi how to cook. Gugu then makes peace with his guardian. Four years later, Fushi becomes glad that he is growing up after his human form grew facial hair. The Beholders reappears to Fushi, telling him to abandon the area but he denied as Fushi claims he needs Gugu.
Owing to her sixteenth birthday coming soon, Rean is conflicted about being forced to marry another man as four years ago a drunken Gugu confessed his love for her. Gugu does not remember such a moment due to the extensive amount of alcohol in his stomach. He is then visited by his long-lost elder brother who wants to apologize for abandoning him, but he is rejected. Nevertheless, he gives back Rean's ring which Gugu treasured much to Rean's shock. As the birthday party comes, Fushi and Gugu vis
Fushi is able to protect all civilians from the Nokkers but is unable to defeat them and the area is destroyed. Now wounded, the immortal being returns to his late villager's youthful form. Gugu and Rean go to the area but it collapses and the former uses his extraordinary strength to protect the latter. This causes Fushi to realize Gugu dies as he takes his appearance and uses all his strength to defeat the enemy which escapes to the West. As she recovers, Rean tries to find Gugu but Fushi take
Fushi contacts the Beholder and realizes that he had forgotten young March's existence in the previous battle. Pioran finds him and decides to accompany him on his journey despite Fushi's early disapproval. The two are captured into an island filled with prisoners and Fushi embarks on a quest to save his good friend and traveling companion Pioran.
Fushi enters into a competition between criminals to achieve his goal of freeing Pioran. In the first round, Fushi is not able to enter the arena after being tackled by a man. As most warriors kill each other, Fushi enters the arena when there is only one surviving. Fushi's regeneration skills when being attacked by his enemy result in him becoming the winner when his rival is scared. In the second round, Fushi keeps reluctant about killing and transforms into Parona to win. However, Fushi is sh
As Fushi wonders what caused Parona's death, a thirteen-year-old girl named Tonari claims that there are good people who become criminals, having had the same experience when remembering her father. Fushi tries to rescue Pioran but the Beholder is against this and tells him to follow Parona's legacy. In the next round, Fushi proves his superiority as a fighter but his rival refuses to give up. This causes the arena to attack the two fighters, disappointed by the lack of deaths. After the battle
Fushi continues bonding with the children though Tonari keeps her ambitions hidden, having been shocked by her father's death years ago in the arena. In March's form, Fushi is able to sneak in Pioran's prison and tells her he will save her. In the final match, Fushi faces none other than Hayase who confesses that it was she who had killed Parona. This enrages Fushi, but he is defeated by her after injecting a drug in his neck that leaves him unconscious, therefore making her the new leader of Ja
A victorious and thoroughly obsessed Hayase informs the shocked crowd by fabricating a tale about how she was the one who had "discovered" Fushi four years ago in a feral state and that it was from her that he learned human speech as well as autonomy and sentience. She then entrusts the future of Janada Island to Tonari, while she takes Fushi to a hidden bedroom where she begins to rape him. Tonari, Mia, Oopa and the rest come to try and save their immortal friend, but end up being caught by the
Tonari attempts to rescue Fushi from the clutches Hayase alone, but ends up encountering some Nokkers. As the mindless monsters attack all of Janada Island, she and Fushi are forced to fight the monsters who have possessed the dead. Most of Tonari's friends try to help their friend but are killed in the process.
The Nokkers now have power over the deceased, and Tonari and Fushi have difficulty in recognizing their dearest departed friends. As Fushi cowers in sorrow and fear, an obsessed Hayase forces him to make decision to save Tonari from the warrior woman's lethal wrath to "negotiate" with Fushi, who promises to hear her out but only if she releases Tonari. Owing to her unusual resistance to certain toxins and poisons, Tonari prepares herself to die and take Hayase with her. However, Fushi saves both
Although initially hesitant believing that his presence will only cause her pain and eventually death, Fushi decides to rejoin Pioran even though the Beholder warns him that she is nearing death from old age, which Fushi does not understand. Over the span of several months Pioran develops irrational mood swings from dementia to Fushi's confusion, though he continues to care for her. Elsewhere, a kind man enters his home hut on a beach, only be attacked by the very person, Hayase, he had saved ex