When She Was Seven, She Pressed a Chip into the Back of His Neck

[Cyberpunk] [Psychological Mystery] [Twists Upon Twists] [Two Powerful Leads Bound by Fate]

Every night, the interface at the back of her neck repeats a promise she forgot long ago: I must fulfill my promise.

She doesn't know who she made the promise to. All she knows is that when she was seven, someone "borrowed" her from the orphanage, and when they returned her seventeen years later, she no longer remembered who she was.

The magistrate who has pursued her for seven years says she's a murderer. But the madman in the hospital ward keeps saying she's not.

She keeps investigating, and only at the very end does she discover that the words "I must fulfill my promise" weren't spoken by the System.

When she was seven, she pressed a chip into the back of a boy's neck and casually patted his head. That boy was the one who would pursue her for the next seven years.

Now she has to shut down every oath in the city with her own hands. The price is that she'll forget everyone she ever saved, including him.