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To the world, Damien Voss is a terrorist. A monster. The most wanted criminal on Earth. Governments call him The Saint of Shadows — the man who wants to collapse civilization by exposing unthinkable taboos.

But Damien doesn’t want destruction. He wants freedom. His taboo? Revealing the sacred institutions of family, religion, and charity as tools of the elite, designed not to help, but to control, traffic, exploit, and destroy the weak.

Each of his attacks is surgical — not to kill, but to expose.

As chaos grows, his enemies multiply: Interpol, the CIA, secret societies, and even freedom fighters who believe he’s gone too far. But as Damien’s actions reveal deeper and darker truths, millions begin to secretly worship him as a savior of the voiceless.

He’s not creating evil. He’s exposing the evil they’ve already accepted.

Saint of Shadows

"They didn't build him to feel. They built him to remember what feeling once meant."— Ella

Location: Unknown — Codenamed: "The Silica Bridge"

A ruined city beneath a crystalline dome.

Here, time did not flow — it fractured. Light bounced endlessly between the glass walls, warping reflections until nothing was real.

And in the center of that stillness sat a boy.

He called himself Kairo.Age: 9Origin: UnknownCognitive Output: 417% beyond synthetic standardsEmotional Complexity Index: Undefined

His eyes were mismatched — one iris shimmered with artificial starlight, the other was matte black.He wore no shoes. He hummed softly. He smiled at nothing.

And beside him stood Mirror Damien.

"He's not your creation," Ella whispered to Mara. "He's your echo."

They'd finally tracked the anomaly.Kairo had hijacked six rebel encryption networks… using music.Notes instead of code. Harmony instead of brute force.

He played the world like a violin.And Sovereign didn't know he still existed.

Flashback: Project Glassmind

In the final years of the Sovereign Expansion, a sub-program called Glassmind was initiated.Its goal: to create an entity capable of predicting the moral temperature of the human collective.

They got a mirror.

The first version couldn't speak. The second drew symbols in blood.

By version seven, they had created Kairo — a hybrid memory entity encoded with echoes of every failed revolution across history.

He didn't learn morality.He simply remembered the consequences of its absence.

Mirror Damien knelt beside the boy.

Kairo touched the glass beneath his feet.

"They're splitting again. The rebels. One faction wants peace. The other wants pain."

"I want neither. I want to end the loop."

Damien, Ella, Mara, and Koslov arrived at the Silica Bridge two hours later.The city wasn't defended.

"You're not him," he said, pointing to Damien."You're the scar."

"And what does that make you?" Damien asked softly.

Kairo's Revelation

Kairo's body wasn't built for survival. It was designed to collapse — to detonate on a quantum level if his morality index ever fell to zero.

A walking failsafe. A glass grenade.

Mirror Damien didn't need him to destroy the rebels.He needed him to break the concept of hope itself.

By showing the world what happens when even the innocent become weapons.

Damien drew his sidearm.Ella raised a trembling hand.

"Don't," she said."He's not the enemy. He's the consequence."

"I don't want to hurt anyone. But I can't stop feeling everything."

"No," he whispered."I'll teach you how to choose for yourself."

But it was too late.

From deep beneath the dome, Mirror Damien activated the shatter pulse — a signal designed to collapse the child's emotional core.

The dome cracked. Light began to bend.

Ella screamed, flooding the signal with counterharmonics.

Kairo didn't explode.He wept.

And for the first time in his life, Kairo chose to live.

"Unexpected," he muttered."Maybe the scar has teeth after all."

Chapter 13: The Child of Glass