86 Eighty-Six (Novel) Vol. 11 written by Asato Asato that won the 23rd annual Dengeki Novel Prize and was adapted into anime.
It happened all too quickly. A flash, a rumble, and then… silence. In an instant, an unprecedented Legion assault wrought untold destruction upon nations across the world. As humanity’s borders are sent into swift decline, Shin and Lena are tasked with a large-scale rescue operation that brings them back to Republic soil after what seems like a lifetime. Yet even with humanity on the brink of extinction, they find a country that hasn’t changed—one that cannot change. Many survivors view rescue by the Eighty-Six as the height of indignity. Similarly, many Eighty-Six are reluctant to lend aid to those who stripped away their humanity. But behind the cavernous, silver eyes of the mechanical ghosts lays a single, gruesome directive…
Biographical Notes:
Asato Asato is Japanese novelist known for her work “86 Eighty-Six”. She started writing novels just before she entered junior high school.
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