Kaka and Dulton: Story
The world of Gaia is not our real world, and there exist swords, power, and magic called “Seirei-riki (Spiritual Power).”
There are four tribes that evolved from elves and dragons trying to adjust to new environments after having lost their habitat due to a volcanic eruption: the Ryujin tribe, dragons who landed onto the ground, and humans who don’t have special powers due to the weakened blood from them; and elves who have remained unchanged from ancient times and waterfront people who had wanted their living space not in the woods but near water.
Humans are developing techniques to control fire, but still don’t have full command of it. Therefore, their scientific technologies and cultures are still immature.
Their entertainment is to drink, and they don’t have the concept of trading sex.
In this chaotic world, leaders of the time who are bored of fights between tribes have established one organization in order to search for a common way.
The Four Member Committee consists of the leaders of the tribes. This was a trial to integrate the world not by physical power but through dialog.
However they try to concentrate the power, fights inevitably occur to a greater or lesser or heavier or lighter extent because tribes having different values live together. The Committee, of course, is not able to be involved in all such quarrels, and therefore has made one rule as a solution—the Agent System.
If you have a problem, you could ask an intermediary authorized by the Committee to let a pursuer act on your behalf to solve it. Objections to the results are not allowed without exception.
They only have to show you the result for problems, such as a lost item or disaster recovery, but it’s a different story in case of a fight against others.
Naturally, the other party also would ask an intermediary to have a pursuer.
Then it’s pursuer vs. pursuer.
Clients naturally start to find better pursuers.
Among them, those who are said to be the strongest are the male human Dulton Schuma and his elf wife Kaka Miralda Schuma, who now has the appearance of a fox.
Kaka and Dulton receive one mission from Mayor, the sister of Kaka, as an intermediary.
This mission begins merely as searching for someone, but as the investigation goes on, it starts to show a different picture.
The Miraldas, the royal family of elves, has been opposing a mysterious person called Marquess. Kaka and Dulton have destroyed Marquess before, but Kaka has had to change into a fox in return for it. Kaka and Dulton have been making a living as pursuers because it is beneficial to find a remedy for it. And behind this mission, they find the existence of Marquees.
Marquess, using one of his men who has a grudge against Dulton, and a competent provider who trades information, sets traps for them.
Kaka and Dulton, on their journey, meet Lutin, a handyman, and Talas, the leader of the smaller-moon brigade Aka, and slip through the traps, but are led to Seiso-in, a place of fate where Kaka was changed into a fox.
There appears Marquees. His purpose is to discard his old body and transmigrate into a young body. This is a forbidden technique that even the Four Member Committee considers dangerous, but Kaka and Dulton disturb him for a simple reason—not to save the world but for the personal grudge of Kaka getting trapped and changed into a fox.
The three parties wage a different-dimension battle that no one can enter. The deadly fight seemed endless, but Marquees gets the upper hand after many changeovers.
Marquess then executes the transmigration technique, but it results in failure because of interruption by the “provider,” who has not originally been cooperative, and Marquees is destroyed.
Pursuers Kaka and Dulton, badly bruised, recognize their feelings toward each other and enjoy the happiness of having survived.
Having completed the mission, they take the next step toward their purpose of retrieving Kaka’s body with the cooperation of