The Last Howl Of New Kyoto
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Chapter 6 UNDER THE MOONLIGHT img
Chapter 7 UNDERNEATH THE IRON VEIL img
Chapter 8 THE WOLF SIGNAL img
Chapter 9 ASHLIGHT REVOLT img
Chapter 10 THE CITY THAT HOWLED img
Chapter 11 THE COUNCIL OF ASH img
Chapter 12 A CITY THAT DREAMS img
Chapter 13 THE HALLOWED RIFT img
Chapter 14 The Howl Beyond img
Chapter 15 The Last Howl img
Chapter 16 A Blood Without Chains img
Chapter 17 The Wild Protocol img
Chapter 18 The Rift-Children img
Chapter 19 The Dream Gate img
Chapter 20 The City Between Sleep img
Chapter 21 The Black Howl Armada img
Chapter 22 Signalborn img
Chapter 23 Dreamshatter Protocol img
Chapter 24 The Reaper's Tongue img
Chapter 25 Beyond the Pattern img
Chapter 26 The Forgotten Moon img
Chapter 27 Ash Mother's Echo img
Chapter 28 Echoes Beyond the Rift img
Chapter 29 When the Moon Cried img
Chapter 30 The Howling Gate img
Chapter 31 Songs That Hunt img
Chapter 32 The Mirror in the Howl img
Chapter 33 The Wolf Beyond Time img
Chapter 34 The One Who Forgot the Moon img
Chapter 35 The Sky That Bled Memory img
Chapter 36 The Wolves Without Shadows img
Chapter 37 The Dreamer's Maw img
Chapter 38 The Hollow Spire img
Chapter 39 The Forgotten Pulse img
Chapter 40 The Council of Shards img
Chapter 41 The Whisper Engine img
Chapter 42 The Shadow in the Circuit img
Chapter 43 The Dream Below the Stone img
Chapter 44 The Forgotten Pact img
Chapter 45 Blood and Code img
Chapter 46 Memory Teeth img
Chapter 47 Tower of Echo Glass img
Chapter 48 The Pact Remade img
Chapter 49 The Fifth Fang img
Chapter 50 Where Ash Remembers img
Chapter 51 The Gate That Sings img
Chapter 52 The Pact Remade img
Chapter 53 The Dreamer Core img
Chapter 54 Beneath the Songline img
Chapter 55 The Echo Archivists img
Chapter 56 The Fractured Light img
Chapter 57 The Splintered Oath img
Chapter 58 The Memory of Fire img
Chapter 59 The Codex of Echoes img
Chapter 60 The Thirteenth Voice img
Chapter 61 The Dream Below img
Chapter 62 The Discordant Ones img
Chapter 63 Blood Refrain img
Chapter 64 Mira's Descent img
Chapter 65 Fractures in the Sky img
Chapter 66 Beneath the Chorus img
Chapter 67 Beneath the Silence img
Chapter 68 The Resonant Divide img
Chapter 69 The Final Consonance img
Chapter 70 When the World Sang Back img
Chapter 71 The Thread Between Stars img
Chapter 72 The City Between Stars img
Chapter 73 Threads in the Dust img
Chapter 74 The Thread That Broke img
Chapter 75 The Devourer's Breath img
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Chapter 3 THE BLACKOUT

It happened without warning.

A solar flare hit at exactly 22:04 Earth Standard. The outer magnetosphere of New Kyoto. The city's artificial intelligence battled to manage the abrupt wave of radiation flooding over it. The impact was first.

Lights died and flickeringly lost their meaning. Gravity hampered a hiccup for a moments. Systems in the Skyplate field froze. Afterward, in a big blackout, everything vanished.

Riko Ayane screamed when her body started to respond.

Her skin tingled with a great surge of vitality. Her muscles spapped, twitched. Her bones could sense breaking and shifting, adapting into something totally different.

Her jaws stretched, shattering her teeth and turning her into something more animal than human beings. Her hearing, her sight, her whole senses opened with explosions beyond understanding. She could not control herself. Her mind was not in control; her body was.

Riko lay in a crumpled pile on the chilly lab floor several minutes after the power returned, her body still twitching as her mind tried to reassert itself. The tiles were stained with blood; in the cracked glass, her image revealed the face of a stranger.

Feral eyes. Dark veins. Too sharp teeth.

She gasped, saying "no," and moved towards the shattered mirror.

The AI did not register her change. Security footage malfunctioned. Medical alerts were muted. The system kept quiet even if it knew what had happened.

Riko used to be just a laboratory test subject. She posed a threat to the city, which knew it.

            
            

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