I work as a bounty hunter in Anjo.
Others take jobs: protecting wealthy people, assassinating political figures, and stealing business secrets.
The job I took on was to capture alive a defecting scientist named Pei Yi.
At four o'clock in the morning, I put the knife to his neck.
He said: "You stepped on my slippers." The next second, I stepped on his foam trap.
Mission failed. A note from the employer: "If he mentions Istanbul, drop it immediately."
What is Istanbul? I did a mission there three years ago.
But I don't remember it at all.
I decided to catch him again.
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Later I found out:
The owner of a second-hand bookstore in Anseong's underground commercial street is an insensible person who has been "cleared" three times.
In the "Melting Pot" clearing center at two o'clock in the morning, there is a woman folding an origami crane next to her brother's bed every day.
The seven large characters on the mirror wall of ETA headquarters "Stability is above all emotions" will be switched to the emotional exchange rate of the month every night.
And the skin on the back of my neck was unbelievably smooth—like someone had deliberately erased something.
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This world uses emotions as currency.
Those who owed taxes were "cleared" and did not even have the right to suffer.
And I am a weapon designed to produce emotions.
He is the key that shuts down the entire system.
They say we are prey and hunter.
But they were wrong.
——We are each other's only vulnerability.
Purpose: Love can give people strength