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the story begins with a naked young girl lucy escaping under odd circumstances from an island research facility off the coast of kamakura in the kanagawa prefecture of japan. lucy manages to nonchalantly dismember and slay over 20 of the research-facility staff with some form of seemingly supernatural power and gets outside. a sniper is ordered to kill her but only manages to ricochet the bullet off the metal helmet encasing her head. lucy falls off a cliff into the sea and is not found again by the research staff.
lucy is a diclonius, a mutant strain of humans who have two horns on their heads and possess telekinetic powers through their vectors. vectors depicted as invisible arms can reach out in a limited range and easily slice through bodies, or grab objects and propel them with superhuman strength at targets outside their reach. the diclonius have great contempt and homicidal tendencies toward humans, often viewing them as inferior, and do not hesitate to kill them. lucy later mentions that one single diclonius could infect enough humans to make sure that humans would be all but extinct in 6 generations.
another type of diclonius are the silpelit. the silpelit are diclonius that are born from a carrier, or more specifically, humans infected by the diclonius virus. in order to achieve this, the diclonius only has to pass one of his or her vectors invisible arms through the pineal gland of the human. silpelit have the same powers as that of a normal diclonius but are presumably unable to reproduce. both diclonius and silpelit are capable of sensing each other from a distance.
the next day, a boy named kouta arrives at kamakura to meet his cousin yuka. kouta has come to study at university there and has been given the use of an old family owned inn, the maple inn, provided he acts as the caretaker there. after meeting with yuka they go to visit the beach and find lucy washed up there, still naked and bleeding from her head. however, the head trauma that lucy has experienced has caused her to develop a split personality, nyu. in stark contrast, nyu is completely docile, harmless and is incapable of saying anything other than nyu. not knowing what to do with her, kouta and yuka take her back to the inn to look after her.
while kouta, nyu and yuka begin settling into a new life, the researchers begin hunting for lucy and characters on both sides find themselves in a situation much more complex than they originally anticipated.
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