Not praying for ten strings

In a world dominated by seven super-corporations, the Longevity Species that always occupied the pinnacle of power didn't allow for the enactment of written laws. The Floating Islands of prisons delimited by lines on the map, where resources would inevitably run out in the future...
People yearned for the birth of a true "Hero," yet they cynically awaited the fall of a Hero from grace.
As long as one was hailed by the media as a Hero, even murder could be forgiven, and every word they said would be adored. Even high and mighty Elves dared not provoke the edge of a Hero.
But if a Hero of the past committed even a minor offense, the moment their image crumbled, the forgiven sins would flare up like an inextinguishable furnace, and the stars of yesterday would instantly become unforgivable criminals...
"—Come become a Hero, Russell."
The most vicious criminal in the world thrust a knife into the boy's hand, whispering a low enticement.
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Solo female lead, Beast Ears, Spiritual Energy, Mechanical Angels, and other elements. Cyber-fantasy. Please refrain if not to your liking.

Tower of Overturn

Records from Cui Que flashed through Russell's mind.


Russell felt as if he could hear the minister narrating in that calm, methodical voice.


"It must have been after his car accident that he was saved by the people of 'Curtain of Ignorance', or rather, taken control of.


"In an era where plastic surgery and gender reassignment are quite simple, due to the proliferation of prosthetics and the simplicity of changing appearances, people subconsciously identify each other by 'prone-spiritual characteristics' and 'prosthetic body parts'...


"To prevent people from recognizing 'Glass' as 'Blue Song Sparrow', his original prone-spiritual characteristics were directly excised, and he was disguised as a cat with a prosthetic in the shape of 'cat ears'."


The many clues he had seen before, found strange, but had not taken to heart, now connected into a line in Russell's mind—


Chapter 51: The Cage of Ultramarine