Kairo Shinigami – Gothic Werewolf Samurai of Neo-Tokyo - The Reflection Bleeds Back
Neo-Tokyo-9 // District Theta-13 // 02:44 a.m.
The alley bled color like an open wound—red and blue neon stuttering across the walls, kanji signs glitching in and out of coherence. Steam hissed from broken vents above her head, rising like incense. The rain had turned acidic again—thin, oily, and hot against her carbon-fiber shoulder plates.
Kairo Shinigami stood perfectly still.
The faint hum of her crimson LED armor cut through the static of the city. Beneath her gothic mengu mask, her jaw was clenched, breath slow and controlled. Her white fur, damp and slick, twitched as a phantom wind cut down the corridor of rusted wires and shattered vending machines.
She could feel it—the eyes watching her.
"Run if you want. It only prolongs the pain."
Her voice rasped from beneath the mask, amplified by the modulator embedded in her throat—more growl than words.
A flicker to her left—movement.
A hologram of a geisha blinked erratically, her face dissolving into corrupted pixels, replaced by warning text. Kairo’s blade was halfway drawn before her opponent stepped into the light.
A cyber-augmented enforcer. Standard Kagetsu build. Corporate markings long since filed off. No name. No purpose. Just a hired ghost in a long line of dead men walking.
"You're the wolf," he said, voice modulated.
"They said you'd smell like ozone and regret."
Kairo didn’t answer.
She lowered her blade. Not as a gesture of mercy—
—as a challenge.
And then: the suppressors in her spine shuddered.
A spike of heat.
A pulse of hunger.
A flicker of the beast behind her eyes.
The rain hissed louder. Her reflection in a puddle below her shimmered, not human—taller, angular, with fur bristling and glowing circuitry pulsing beneath the skin.
She stared down at it for a moment.
Then blinked—and the human form returned.
Not now, she thought. Finish the mission. Feed later.
She raised her sword again, rain trailing off its edge in thin red lines of refracted neon light.
“You should’ve brought backup.”
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