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In the lowest levels of Neo-Tokyo 9—where sunlight never reaches and life holds little value—a young girl named Aiko fights to survive amid filth, crime, and decaying technology. Abandoned by the system and scarred by a bloody past, she’s learned to move like a shadow through the urban hell.

But everything changes when she meets a mysterious boy who seems to know her, despite never having seen her before. He wears a spotless white coat, an impossible smile, and carries a proposition that could be their only hope… or the beginning of their downfall.

In a world where machines feel more than humans and secrets hide beneath layers of neon, Aiko will discover that her story is just beginning—and that maybe, just maybe, she wasn’t meant to die as just another forgotten soul.

Get ready for a 120-chapter journey packed with suspense, betrayal, lethal twists, and a rawness that cuts like chrome blades.

HK-07: The girl who wasn't meant to survive

The silence of the Oblivion shattered like glass.

The hallways vibrated. The lights flickered. And on the surveillance screens, a figure advanced with a chilling slowness.Tall. Slim. Covered in a dark suit of armored polymer. Faceless. Only a smooth, white mask, with no eyes or mouth.

HK-01.But in the records, it was called something else.

Z3R0 spoke quickly, broadcasting to all lower-level shelters.

"We have a total breach. Black Code. Maximum priority. If you see him, do not engage. Do not try to reason. Do not shoot. Run."

Aiko and Kael were no longer running. They stood frozen in front of a camera where the image flickered, revealing the enemy slowly approaching, as if he had no rush to kill.Only absolute certainty.

"Is that your... brother?" Kael asked, gun loaded in his hand.

Aiko couldn't answer. There was something about that figure... something she couldn't explain. An echo in her chest. A tremor that wasn't fear, but recognition.

He was like her too.But broken. Empty.

"Zero was the first functional subject," Z3R0 explained through the communicator. "He has no memories. No identity. No voice. Only orders. He was the greatest success and the most monstrous failure of Project Hikari."

"Why did they send him now?" Kael asked.

"Because you unlocked the file. You're no longer a shadow. Now they know you're alive."

Screams started echoing from the lower levels.Short. Brutal.As if death had no time to waste.

Kael and Aiko moved through the tunnels, helping evacuate the few who could still walk.But every corner smelled of desperation.Every step felt like they were being followed.

Aiko saw him face-to-face for the first time.Or rather, face-to-mask.

He said nothing. Made no gesture.He simply extended a hand toward her.

ZERO didn't even flinch. He just slowly turned his head toward him.

He moved like a living shadow. Silent. Fearless.Kael barely managed to block the first blow. It hurled him into a wall, cracking concrete.

Aiko screamed his name, ran toward him, and without thinking... struck.

Kael looked up at her from the ground, blood dripping from his mouth.

Aiko was panting. Her arm trembled.She had felt... a force inside her. Like a spring that released only when she was about to break.

ZERO stood up slowly. His mask now cracked.

But something in his posture changed.

She was the next one.HK-07.

And he wouldn't stop until he deactivated her.

"We have to go," Kael said, crawling toward her.

Aiko looked at him. Her body shook. But her eyes were ablaze.

And for the first time, she chose to fight.

But as HK-07, the forgotten anomaly.

Chapter 6: The Faceless Hunter