skouray
The tissue was dead. It answered anyway.
Six years after the war ended, Shinichi Izumi keeps a fragment of the enemy locked in an illegal basement lab, and Migi, the parasite still fused to his hand, has never stopped running the numbers. When a routine scan wakes something that has no biological reason to listen, Migi reaches a conclusion he can't unthink: humanity didn't survive an invasion. It passed a test. And whoever is grading it is already preparing the real one.
With no one left who'll believe them, evidence going missing before they can reach it, and an armed group that already knows exactly who Shinichi is, they have one narrow window to get humanity ready before the signal calls something home.
The war isn't over. It never started.