In the neon-drenched, perpetually rain-slicked metropolis of Neo-Kyoto, Kaelen is a ghost—a data courier living on the margins, haunted by glitches in his cybernetics that show him fragments of a life he never lived. These aren’t software bugs; they are the memories of Kenji Tanaka, a legendary netrunner who died a decade ago in a heist gone catastrophically wrong.
When a seemingly routine data transfer ends in a brutal ambush, Kaelen’s dormant past comes roaring to life. He is saved by Anya, Kenji’s former partner, who reveals the shocking truth: Kaelen’s existence is no accident. He is the unwilling recipient of Kenji’s consciousness, a secret experiment by the all-powerful OmniCorp.
Now, with assassins hunting him and a dead man’s skills awakening within him, Kaelen must unravel the conspiracy that cost him his first life. His quest for answers leads him back into the digital heart of OmniCorp to confront a past betrayal and a terrifying technology known as the Chimera Protocol—a project with the power to redefine life, death, and the very nature of the human soul. To survive, Kaelen must merge the man he is with the legend he was and expose a truth that could either liberate humanity or shatter it.
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