

On his collar was an engraving, "MISAKI-4". However, they began to rebel, forming what would become known as the Scarlet terrorist sect lead by Epsilon-Eagle, and declared war on humanity.Ī special combat unit of child soldiers with superpowers, the X-Ages, were dispatched to assassinate Epsilon-Eagle and capture Yu Misaki.Īfter the assassination attempt, the X-Ages found and brought back what was not Yu Misaki, but a young boy with a resemblance to her. It was after the suicide of Ichigo Nanase (Kaede's father) that Yu took over as the superintendent of Scarlet and pushed for the advancement of the "Alpha Plan", a project whose objective is the development of complete ecosystems through genetic engineering and technology for space travel.Īrtificial sub-human lifeforms developed for these ecosystems were a product of the Alpha Plan.

was abnormally high.Īt that time, Scarlet was originally the name of a human-based research institution based in South America involved in advanced genetic engineering, as well as to study the effective utilization of unnatural superpowers. With that, Fou, now as Epsilon-2, flew off in pursuit of Xi-Tiger, intending to avenge Kaede's death.įou's story began with his "mother", so to speak, the 10-year-old child genius Yu Misaki, whose I.Q. Sensing an unknown power within Epsilon, Xi-Tiger fled the facility, but not before killing Kaede. Enraged, Fou transformed into Epsilon, now in the form of a "birdman" with steel wings. When Xi-Tiger launched an attack on the research laboratory in an attempt to assassinate Epsilon, he held Kaede hostage with the intent of forcing him out into the open. Fou is also the host of the parasitic form of Epsilon-2, the good half of Epsilon-Eagle, whose being had split into two when he was thrown into the time-space continuum. During his time in captivity, he had a very close bond with a 14-year-old girl named Kaede Nanase. Fou Misaki was one of several kidnapped children with superpowers that were kept in the Sierrans' research laboratory and experimented on.
