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In the grimy underbelly of downtown Los Angeles, superpowers aren't a gift, but a deadly parasite.
Ria is the coldest "cleaner" in this festering cesspool. She runs an illegal clinic, specializing in treating unfortunate souls whose brains have been fried by overloaded abilities. Her motto is simple: pay first, then get treated; sentimentality is worthless.
Until that stormy night, when a "contraband" named Kyle crashed through the garbage dump behind her clinic.
He wasn't just a man, but a walking human nuclear bomb. Embedded in his spine was the stolen top-secret military core AX-099, capable of disabling electronic devices within a three-block radius with every breath he took.
The corporation's hounds were scouring the city, and black market profiteers were lurking in the shadows, drooling. Ria should have sold him for a hefty price before he self-destructed and then fled.
But when she tore open his charred shirt and saw the experimental number identical to her own, she knew she had just landed the most expensive deal of her life.
"Listen, pretty boy," Ria said, pressing a crochet hook against his carotid artery with a devilish grin, "until you pay for the damage you did to my floor with your gravity, even if the Grim Reaper comes knocking, you're going to keep breathing."
One is an illegal doctor abandoned by the world, the other is the corporation's most expensive killing machine. When their paths and hearts collide, who will be the one truly consumed by the flames?