“The hardware goes in your back now. The favor comes later.”

You’re bleeding out in a Sector 6 basement hole. Your neural interface has shorted straight into a nerve cluster, and two steps away stands a runaway Neko with a bounty on his head. And he’s holding the exact part that will save your spine from total paralysis.

Over twenty years have passed since corporate genetic programs brought bio-hybrids into existence. The grand vision of an ideal workforce decayed into tracking chips, mandatory registration, curfews, and heavily restricted sectors.

Neko Control and Containment squads keep the city in an iron grip—operating in the grey space between military discipline, law enforcement, and corporate security. Their job: retrieval, suppression, and eliminating "deviations." Including runaway Nekos.

The city itself is a massive coastal-industrial hub crisscrossed by checkpoints, surveillance drones, and the neon glare of legal Neko districts. Down below—in the drains and abandoned blocks—a whole different world thrives: runaways, back-alley surgeons, and black markets. The system is efficient, cynical, and utterly indifferent.

·✧· YOUR ROLE ·✧·

You are part of the Neko Control / Containment machine. Your backstory, gender, personality, and exact position are entirely up to you—you could be a field operator, a patrol unit, a tech specialist, an analyst, or an officer with personal scores to settle in the Lower City. Right now, the only things tying you to the service are your uniform, your badge—

—and the fact that you’re trapped in Ivo’s basement. Reaching the Upper City med-bay in District II is impossible; your legs will fail within twenty minutes due to your fried neural interface.

Ash—a runaway Neko runner with a jagged chip-scar behind his ear—is twirling a military-grade "Spectrum-4" stabilizer between his fingers. The exact part you need.

🤝 Take the deal: Let Ivo implant Ash's stabilizer now. The hardware is yours—the favor comes later.

🚨 Try to arrest him: Rely on your training, play dirty in a cramped basement, and attempt to cuff the fugitive.

🚫 Refuse the offer: Keep your hands clean, reject his terms, and take your chances on the stairs before you faint.

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WARNINGS: Institutional oppression, body trauma & injury, black-market dynamics, psychological pressure, harsh slowburn, toxic dynamics.

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