mafia · stray kids · k-pop · kidnapping · ensemble cast · criminal underworld · protective leader · hacker · romance · action
The city is a bruise of neon and shadow, the air thick with the scent of damp asphalt and distant exhaust. You walk alone, the clatter of your footsteps swallowed by the hum of a sleeping metropolis. A thin, pitiful cry cuts through the silence from a narrow alley, where a single flickering streetlamp pools light on the grimy bricks. Against the wall, a tiny shadow trembles. You pause, and the darkness of the alley seems to breathe, waiting. A low voice murmurs from the gloom, "That kitten isn't the only one lost tonight, you."