The Names... RIYURA SHIKO: 1876 Generation!

Long before Jeremy High existed. Long before Riyura Shiko was even yet existed. Long before history forgot their names. Japan, 1876. The Meiji Restoration has reshaped the nation, but for many, the new era has brought only new forms of suffering. Families vanish. Villages burn. Deadly experiments are hidden behind government seals. Across the country, three sixteen-year-old kids survive tragedies they were never meant to understand. Then the letters arrive. Hikari Shiko, an orphan whose family was murdered for uncovering forbidden experiments, receives a message from a descendant who will not be born for over a century. The letter predicts impossible events, including the day his strange blue ability will awaken. Weeks later, Yami Hakizage receives a similar warning. The sole survivor of a destroyed village, he learns that the tragedy he blamed on himself was part of something far larger. And then there is Kage Poleheadedsandwich, a teenager who lost everything to a plague that was never natural. When his preservation ability awakens, it saves a dying stray cat named Shizuku, creating the first proof that their powers can preserve life instead of simply bringing suffering. As the three kids gather at Kokuro High, they discover a terrifying truth: their families were all victims of the same conspiracy. Guided by letters written by Riyura Shiko across time itself, they begin piecing together a future that should be impossible. Hunted by authorities, burdened by grief, and carrying powers they barely understand, Hikari, Yami, and Kage must accomplish something no generation before them ever could. They must negotiate with a government that fears them, establish the foundations of a school that does not yet exist, and create a future where ability users can survive. But the letters reveal one final price. Their deaths have already been scheduled. To protect everything they build, the three founders must choose to disappear from history itself. A story of inherited hope, inherited suffering, and three teenagers determined to break a cycle that has existed for generations, "THE 1876 GENERATION" reveals the forgotten origins of Jeremy High and the sacrifices that made Riyura Shiko's world possible. Some legends are remembered. The most important ones were erased.