In a world ruled by machines, contracts matter more than people.
Kira survives by never asking questions. She takes the job, completes the mission, disappears. That's how you stay alive.
Until one assignment changes everything.
Lila was supposed to be delivered.
Instead, she was released.
Now Kira is on the run, from the system she worked for, from the consequences of her choice, and from a girl who refuses to be left behind.
This is not a story about saving the world.
It's about two people learning how to survive each other, in a place where attachment is the most dangerous thing of all.
(Chapters 1-11 have been edited!)
"You are the reason evil runs through my veins!"-Lord Garmadon.
Imagine this: you were you, but then you weren't. Something happened to you that made you slowly lose yourself.
31 year old Kira Tachibanna knows exactly what that feels like. Sometimes we don't want to be evil. Sometimes we want to stay as ourselves. But when time runs out, that's gonna be pretty hard.
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