The existence of cyborgs was a legacy of history, and an issue the Area 11 government was very reluctant to face.
In the 1990s, a wave of cybernetic modification swept across the world.
Unwilling to fall behind, the Area 11 government created a large number of cyborg soldiers.
But after the turn of the twenty-first century, the rapid development of computers and the rise of intelligent AI made cybernetic modification obsolete.
To deal with this large number of cyborg soldiers, the Area 11 government sent them to the Hokkaido front lines as cannon fodder, which led to the birth of Machine City.
That was the publicly known origin of cyborgs in Area 11, and they were the first generation.
In reality, advances in new materials technology had led the Area 11 government to conduct another cybernetic modification experiment in secret.
Nangong Saya was one of the products of this experiment, as were many of Takeda Masumi's comrades.
Most of them had been wounded during missions and had no choice but to undergo cybernetic modification.
The second wave of cybernetic modification experiments continued for a long time, but sadly, they brought nothing but ongoing costs and no results.
Although second-generation cyborg soldiers were far more powerful than the first generation, they still couldn't match drones controlled by intelligent AI, much less the Individual Combat System, which was practically a war machine.
So when a new government came to power in Area 11, it immediately scrapped the bottomless pit of a project.
A small number of second-generation cyborgs were lucky enough to enter the military and police systems, but the vast majority were left to fend for themselves.
This showed just how amateurish the Area 11 government was. If they'd been willing to give these second-generation cyborgs a way to survive, they