Guardians of the Eighteen Districts

Zhenya — a pianist. At the last concert, something terrible happened that turned his perception of the world upside down. He fled to St. Petersburg, but instead of peace, he got a charismatic neighbor who is a magician and a job in a mysterious city of deities, where enemies can be more charming than allies, and every sorcerer has a heap of secrets behind their back.

Now Zhenya investigates magical crimes, learns magic, saves people, and desperately tries not to turn into a villain. Which is not so simple, as there are three forces in this world: light, darkness, and the cursed. And the problem is that he seems to belong to the latter...