Apk4f -

Kai walked to the door. He didn't just step out into the alley; he stepped into the stream of the city's data. He wasn't a debtor anymore. He wasn't a drone.

The pain was instantaneous—not sharp, but vast, like an ocean of white noise flooding his synapses. Kai gripped the edge of the counter, his knuckles white. His vision fractured into a thousand cascading windows of code. Kai walked to the door