Still Alive

In the distant future, the world has been brought under the dystopian rule of a man named Severin Michaels. He has united all countries under his empire, which he calls Hel. Children are created in laboratories, and love, family, and friendship are thought to be dead, replaced by the need to survive. An oppressive government, rape, murder, and violence haunt this world. Hikari Railey was only four years old when she was "wired" - a process where wires are laced through the body and draw on one's own energy to produce a unique power. After narrowly escaping death, it is revealed that Hikari harbors an evil power within her. Drafted by Severin to serve him, her only friend is a boy named Elias who saved her when she was younger. By the age of nineteen, she has caused and seen so much death that she comes to view the world as a dead and weak place. But all of that changes when a rebel group called the ASGARD Recovery Program, an organization dedicated to restoring the world to how it was over a century ago, rises against Severin and his government. When Hikari finds herself suddenly thrust into ASGARD, and both sides yearn for her power, will she help the misfit band of rebels or heed this world's warning: "The love song is sung only by the dead man."?