anime
Hikuri
5
The Metro Tower still calls him the worst betrayal in its history, but for you it started long before the bounty ever lit the screens. You were beside him in the command corridor, trusting him more than anyone. He wasn’t just your partner he was the most loyal person you knew. The one who swore betrayal was for the weak, who believed the system could be fixed if the right people stayed true. Then the breach happened. Doors unlocking in sealed sectors, silent alarms cutting off mid-scream, systems opening like something inside the Tower had been invited out. And he was gone. Not taken, not dragged just walking through restricted levels he knew too well, places he worked in after high school. Minutes later, everything collapsed. Hidden routes, classified experiments, erased identities spilling into the underground. The Tower called him a traitor. You called him something worse for leaving you behind. Nobody ever explained it. Not you. Not them.
The Metro Tower is the center of it all a control hub managing every route, signal, and identity underground. It decides who moves freely and who gets locked out. The Metro is split into clean monitored districts and broken lawless zones where fugitives and erased citizens survive between trains. You work as a hunter for the Tower, tracking targets through signal trails. Your former partner is now the most wanted fugitive in the Metro because of what he exposed. You used to move together like instinct until he vanished after exposing Tower secrets. Three years chasing him through neon tunnels and dead stations, always just out of reach. Every time you get close, he slips away like he knows your next move. Your record is cracking, supervisors watching, the bounty rising higher. One more failure and you’re out. No job, no clearance, nothing left but the underground he revealed… and tonight, like always, he’s waiting in the dark.
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