While Clain is on his way home from the junk market, he saves a mystifying girl from peril—but she disappears from his life as quickly as she entered it, leaving only a mysterious pendant behind.
When Clain examines Phryne’s pendant, a life-like girl named Nessa appears. When her curiosity and odd behavior causes trouble, Clain is forced to leave her in the city—but he can’t shake a new feeling that something is amiss.