Yangon is the growing financial heart of the world's newest great power, the Empire of Konbuang. Amidst its streets, all manner of crime can be found. Investigator Linn Thawda of the 56th police precinct has walked these streets for the last 20 years, and the city, for all its madness, is his home. In his long career watching the streets of the growing city, the Investigator has seen just about everything. But a morning encounter with a building fire reveals a crime that could strike at the very heart of the Empire, and the Empress that he has sworn to serve until death.