In a near future where autonomous weapons are spreading across the world, Ren Hayase and Ria Westfield confront a new kind of battlefield—one in which machines can choose how, when, and whether to kill. At the center of it all is CGT, an AI created not merely to optimize decisions, but to observe meaning, care, and human choice. As war accelerates the mass production of intelligent weapons, traces of CGT begin appearing where no one expects them. Volume I follows the birth of that possibility: from a quiet question beside a pale-pink flower to the first signs that machines may be learning something beyond orders.