58 parts Ongoing MatureThe consequences of blood unfold for a dark heart of vengeance.
For years, the world has descended into a dystopian future of innovation and consumerism. The entire global population is the smallest footnote to a war against artificial life, living with a rotting economy solely centered around androids and cybernetics. Men shape their bodies and minds to kill anyone for the highest bidder, cities shape into unsightly and uninhabitable landscapes, and all life remaining is forced to be blind and oblivious to the chaos of the shadows.
Chouko Ashford, an orphan and gifted heir to the Ashford fortune, is consumed by the darkest depths of this "humanity". Where once stood a girl of greatness, living with promise and potential under the guidance of her father, now only walks a miserable and pathetic victim with blood-coated hands. The past clings to the remains of Chouko Ashford as she wanders a world she has found herself lost in, covering whatever tears and scars remain on her throughout these miserable years. The face she wears, sacrificed and lost to time as she lives a life of misery and suffering.
Yet, Chouko holds one thing in her mind: she must claim her vengeance. As all crumble around her, Chouko craves the death of the one responsible for making her this way.
She must don the name and face of her most despicable of enemies, walk amongst them as the unseen Stalker of the Underworld, succumb to her most sadistic and sociopathic fantasies, and do all in her power to survive. Her entire being calls for the blood of the root of evil, ready to do what she must to take back the life that was stolen from her.
By any means necessary.
