PGR: Please Don't Turn Off My Pain Receptors

An apocalyptic story set in the world of Punishing: Gray Raven. It’s easy to jump into, and readers who enjoy soft science-fiction apocalypse stories are warmly invited to give it a try. It’s also accessible to readers who aren’t players or aren’t familiar with the setting:

[2160: Punishing descends.]

The splendor of the old world turns in an instant into crimson wasteland. Intelligent machines rebel, and humanity becomes their prey.

A researcher with no strength to defend himself awakens the first-generation construct codenamed “Skylark” amid the ruins.

She is a glass blade that knows no fear. To protect him, she shatters herself again and again. To keep her alive, he opens her pain module with his own hands, teaching her to cry and to feel pain like a human being.

Yet this invasion gives humanity no chance to fight back. Every survivor has become the final gravestone of the old world.