The city never slept, but tonight it was screaming.
Sirens wailed in the distance. Red and blue lights danced across rain-slick streets, reflecting off cracked glass and bloodied concrete. A crowd had gathered behind the police tape, murmuring, whispering.
"Victim is female, age twenty two. No ID on her. Same pattern as the others—neck snapped, body arranged. Sick bastard left a red ribbon again."
The officers spoke like they were describing the weather.
Her body, stiff and pale, was wheeled into the coroner's van. Her face was peaceful, as if she'd fallen asleep to a lullaby only she could hear. But no one saw the flicker under her skin. No one noticed the faint pulse of red light dancing along her fingers.
No one but the system.
[Initializing: Execution Code]
[Status: VITAL SIGNS INACTIVE]
[Error...]
[Override Detected: Unique Skill Unlocked]
[UNIQUE SKILL ACTIVATED: RESURRECTION]
It began with a shudder. A spark. A glitch in death itself.
Her eyes snapped open—white, lifeless one second, burning red with code the next. Her lungs gasped in silence. Skin flushed with warmth. Bones reset. The heart, long still, pounded back to life with digital rhythm.
She sat up in the body bag, eyes blinking against the cold florescent lights of the morgue.
A scream never left the coroner's lips.
Because by the time he turned—
She was gone.
Three Hours Later
Death Protocol Headquarters – Central Surveillance
Cigar watched the feed like a man watching history rewrite itself.
"Run it again," he said, lighting another cigar with trembling hands.
The footage looped—Kira rising, the code pulsing, the sudden disappearance. The system had flagged it in real-time. Not just an Executioner.
A Resurrected Executioner.
A Unique Skill. One the system itself didn't predict. One it had only whispered of in fragmented data. And now it was real. Living. Walking.
Unkillable.
"She's the perfect soldier," Cigar muttered. "No fear. No pain. No failure."
He stood, turning to the shadowed council behind him. "We cannot let this opportunity slip."
One voice emerged from the dark: "And the brother?"
"Leave him," Cigar said. "For now. He's a pawn. She—she's the goddamn future."
Two Days Later
Unknown Death Protocol Facility – Level Zero
She woke strapped to a table. Tubes in her arms. Digital pulses fluttered across her veins like glowing veins of red lightning. A dozen doctors in black coats typed furiously on hovering screens.
"Vital signs stabilized."
"System syncing perfectly."
"She's... adapting."
She didn't scream. Not once.
Her memory was broken. Names scattered. Faces blurred. But pain—pain was clear.
And they taught her how to kill.
Not with hate.
But with code.
Red Judgment. Flash. Binary Sword. Clone. Resurrection.
They installed every combat protocol. Fed her every lethal line of Execution Code. Tested her regeneration. Shot her. Burned her. Cut her. Again and again.
She rose every time.
No emotion. No expression.
Just a perfect response to a single command.
[Execute.]
They gave her no name. Just a designation:
K-0. The Perfect Executioner.