Blackasaki City, Christmas Eve, 2032.
Every story begins here.
A girl who survived a snowy night, a disgraced detective, and a red-haired, red-eyed policewoman.
It looks like a detective story. It looks like more than a detective story.
Technology, money, law, gangs, cybernetic implants, the old district, crime...
Capital, the powerful, corruption, oppression, monsters, resistance, slaughter...
There is no battle between good and evil, no simple division between right and wrong.
This place is never short of madmen. It has never had any heroes.
Only the fallen, the Black Swallow thief, and the demon of rainy nights.
Only dreamlike tales, the art of murder, and schemes within schemes.
The elegant politician drinks alone in a high-rise, while the starving poor die in dark alleys.
The arrogant bureaucrat wrongly convicts the innocent in court, while the vengeful nightmare wanders among the crowds.
The detective is coming apart. The policewoman is consumed by rage.
The nightingale weeps. The white dove laughs.
The Mobius strip never breaks for any one person. Tragedies and comedies repeat throughout history.
This is not one person's story.
This is everyone's future.
(This series is a near-future cyberpunk urban crime story. The first book is Year Zero. It has a dark realist style and a slow start. It is not a power fantasy, but a depressing, devoted romance, focused on dialogue, deduction, and realistic combat. It features multiple protagonists and interwoven storylines, with a style closer to a screenplay.)
