Takeru Kusanagi only enrolled at the Inquisition's officer academy for the salary, but ends up captaining the 35th Test Platoon, a squad of washouts nicknamed the 'Small Fry Platoon' and assembled from cadets nobody else wanted. Swordsmanship is his one real skill in an institution built to train inquisitors against the remnants of a war against witches, and his teammates, Ouka Ootori and Ikaruga Suginami among them, are no easier to place. Before the platoon can hunt anything, its members have to learn to work with each other. This manga adapts the original light novel.