Anchors

The Director's idea was insane. Dangerous.

But it also made a terrifying kind of sense.

If I couldn't suppress this hunger, I had to learn to live with it. To control it. To feed it with targets who deserved it.

It was a dark path. A path of no return.

But it was a path.

"Alright," I said, after a long silence.

The Director nodded. "I knew you would understand."

We established a new agreement.

I would no longer be a student at Apex. My file was erased. Officially, Kang Ji-Hoon, the S-rank, had never existed.

I became a shadow agent. A "cleaner." Directly under the command of the Director and my father's organization.

My mission: to hunt and eliminate threats that the official heroes couldn't or wouldn't handle.