Urban-noir Stories

Josh knew that life in one of the Upper Cities wasn't going to be easy to get used to, but never did he plan on investigating a series of murders together with his roommate, Ayria Hawthorn. Three Senior Engineers have been killed in a way sacrilegious to everything logical reasoners hold dear - with Magik. In a City where Science and Magik exist in an uneasy truce, the smallest imbalance might send everything spiraling out of control, resulting in an all-out war between the two Guilds. Unless Ayria and Josh can find the Summoner responsible and turn him over to the Watch, chaos may soon reign unchecked in Old London...

By day, they serve coffee and keep the cats fed. By night, they hunt the kind of predators the law won't touch. Hirose Tokito-codename Sake-once wore a badge. Now he runs the Nighthunt, a covert crew hidden behind a quiet cat café. Their specialty: taking down the powerful who think they're untouchable. What begins as a routine street-level takedown soon unravels into something bigger-each target leading to another, the threads pulling tighter, the danger climbing higher. Beneath the city's neon glare lies a network of blood money and buried crimes, protected by men who kill to keep them hidden. In this city, justice isn't broken-it's sold to the highest bidder. And the Nighthunt is done playing fair. *** © 2025 Perseus Beinn. All rights reserved. This is an original work of fiction. Please do not copy, repost, or reproduce any part of this story without permission.