Kill or Be Killed

In the underworld, mercy was a weakness.

There were only two rules: kill or be killed... and never forget a debt written in blood.

At ten years old, Kim Hwa-Jin watched his world burn.

His family, one of Korea's respected mafia bloodlines, was accused of treason they never committed. The accusation came from the Leehan Syndicate-the largest and most feared branch of the Japanese Yakuza. The verdict was swift. Men, women, and children were slaughtered without mercy, while the Yakuza's elders looked the other way, believing justice had been served.

Only one child escaped.

Smuggled out of Hong Kong beneath the cover of darkness, Hwa-Jin vanished from the world's eyes. The Kim name was declared extinct.

But ghosts have a habit of surviving.

The freezing streets of Russia forged the frightened boy into something far more terrifying. Under the ruthless rule of the Russian Bratva, he buried Kim Hwa-Jin alongside his childhood and was reborn as Sergei Nikirokov-a man whose name inspired fear, whose hands built an empire through blood, and whose heart beat for only one purpose.

Revenge.

For fifteen years he sharpened himself into the perfect weapon. Every scar became a lesson. Every enemy became another corpse beneath his feet. The monster the world feared had not been born.

He had been created.

Now, Sergei Nikirokov was returning to Asia.

The Leehan Syndicate believed the Kim bloodline had ended a decade ago.

They were wrong.

Because the last Kim had come home.

And this time, he wasn't running.

He was coming to collect every drop of blood they owed.