This series follows the story of how Batou and Kusanagi met during a civil war and is also a parallel story to the Arise OVA series with Batou as the lead.

It is an age when large-scale natural disasters frequently happen all over the world. It is a time when cyborgs and autonomous robots are beginning to appear on the market in technologically advanced nations...

On a stormy night, Isamu witnesses a black phantom ship flying in the sky. He follows a man who has descended from the vessel and ends up at the Terada residence. There he finds four men terrified by a threa...