Years of brutal war with an extraterrestrial race ended not with a treaty, but with a contest—one representative from each side, competing in a test of physical strength. Against all expectation, the human champion won. The peace that followed is real, and the world it produced has its own institution: the University Satellite, where the greatest female athletes train and compete for the title of Cosmic Beauty. Akari Kanzaki arrives full of enthusiasm, carrying the weight of a legacy—her mother was once Cosmic Beauty herself—and ready to carve out something of her own.