Killy and Cibo next come to a region of the City ruled by a group of Silicon Life, where they ally with a pair of 'provisional Safeguards' named Dhomochevsky and Iko. The megastructure is ultimately destroyed due to attacks by Silicon Life and Sanakan, but Maiserv is able to give Cibo a sample of Seu's DNA. Here they meet Maiserv, an AI independent from the Administration, and her guardian Seu, a Planter. Killy and Cibo defend the Electro-Fishers by bringing them to the cylindrical megastructure of Toha Heavy Industries. She transforms into her Safeguard form and attacks the Electro-Fishers' village when discovered. Killy's cybernetic abilities are restored after he is attacked by a high-level Safeguard, which turns out to have been Sanakan in disguise. Together, Killy and Cibo meet a young girl named Sanakan and a tribe of human warriors called the Electro-Fishers.

Their quest is indirectly supported by the City's Authority, which is unable to stop the Safeguard from opposing them. The Net Terminal Genes appear to be the key to halting the unhindered, chaotic expansion of the Megastructure, as well as a way of stopping the murderous robot horde known as the Safeguard from destroying all of humanity.Īlong the way, Killy meets and joins forces with a resourceful engineer named Cibo.

The City is inhabited by scattered human and transhuman tribes as well as hostile cyborgs known as Silicon Creatures. The City is an immense volume of artificial structure, separated into massive 'floors' by nearly-impenetrable barriers known as ' Megastructure'. He is searching for Net Terminal Gene, a (possibly) extinct genetic marker that allows humans to access the ' Netsphere', a sort of computerized control network for The City. Killy, a silent loner possessing an incredibly powerful weapon known as a Gravitational Beam Emitter, wanders a vast technological world known as ' The City'.

Blame!, Vol. 10 by Tsutomu Nihei