Shadows on the Blade

The city's neon lights can never illuminate the stench of the back alleys, just as no one can see the face beneath his hood.

He is a top assassin known by the codename “Corpse.” The bullets in his gun never miss, and wherever his blade passes, silence is all that remains. His peers say he has no heart; his targets call him a demon who deals death. But only he knows that every time he pulls the trigger, he sees his former self from years ago: the past he buried with his own hands, and the chains still wrapped around his mind.

When a job pointing to the truth of that past comes his way, he steps into a carefully laid trap. Hunted by the police, surrounded by enemies, and approached by allies, he teeters on the edge of a blade.

As gunfire tears through the night, he finally understands: true darkness lies not along the blade's edge, but in the beat of his heart every time he hesitates. As the blood of the past mingles with the sins of the present, will he become an even colder assassin, or prey devoured by the shadows?