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A Neo-Tokyo Mystery
Neon Shadows
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Neon Shadows
Ch. 7 — The Signal
Chapter 7
The Signal
The neon signs of Neo-Tokyo flickered in the rain, casting prismatic shadows across Detective Kira’s visor. She paused at the intersection of Fifth and Akihabara, her neural implant humming with incoming data.
“You’re sure about this?” Ren’s voice crackled through the comm, laced with static and concern.
Kira didn’t answer. The memory fragment she’d recovered from the last victim played on loop behind her eyes — a penthouse, a face obscured by light, the taste of copper.
She pushed through the crowd of late-night revelers, their faces lit by holographic advertisements promising everything from synthetic dreams to digital immortality.
The building rose before her like a monolith of black glass, its surface rippling with encrypted data streams visible only to those with the right implants.
“Kira, wait—”
She muted the channel.
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