EthanSirju1
In the decaying hell of Platinum Koi City, wealth is eternal and poverty is a death sentence. A handful of immortal elites control the world's remaining corporations, hoarding resources while the poor are left to rot. Astrum, Xinc Sports, Kurogane Motors, and Zenkai Tech don't just run the economy, they are the economy.
This story follows Lance, a morally bankrupt enforcer for Astrum. He hunts down and exterminates those too poor to afford corporate services. To him, survival has always meant obedience. Kill. Get paid. Repeat.
Until the job changes.
Sent to eliminate a "non-compliant household," Lance discovers the targets are his own family. For the first time, he refuses. That single act of defiance seals their fate. His boss dispatches a monstrous bodyguard, a human fused into a hulking mechanized suit built for destruction.
Lance gives chase, but arrives too late.
Everything he once justified collapses.
Blinded by grief and rage, he confronts his boss, only to learn the truth: the elite cannot be killed. His bullets mean nothing. In response, the bodyguard throws him from a fifty-story building, leaving him to die in the streets below.
Lance beamed with joy, excited that he would receive punishment for his sins, But despite his acceptance of leaving this disgusting world, death forsook him.
Broken and barely alive, he is salvaged by a reclusive mechanic and rebuilt with cybernetic limbs and a knowledge chip. Given a second life at the cost of debt, Lance must hunt again.
This time, his targets are different.
The powerful. The untouchable. The ones who built the system.
Haunted by his past and driven by revenge, Lance rises as a bounty hunter, determined to dismantle the immortal empire that destroyed his life.
This time, he's aiming up.