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"X/1999": Japan's greatest seer, the blind prophet Hinoto, has foretold through her visions that the close of the millennium, in 1999, will bring about the End of the World. At the center of her prophecy is a young man named Kamui Shiro, who posesses startling psychic powers. "Intermezzo": Kamui may be at the heart of the prophecy, but he is not alone. Other people with unique 'powers' -- the 'Seven Seals, ' who seem to be Kamui's allies, and the 'Seven Harbingers, ' who might be enemies -- are all somehow linked to the destruction to come, and all are now gathering in Tokyo. "Their destiny was foreordained. As the web of destiny closes around Kamui, he begins to learn more about his fate, and Hinoto herself shows him her vision of the destruction to come. But even though Kamui's future seems to have been predetermined from his very birth, it would seem that his power also comes with a "choice" -- to save the earth...or to destroy it.