Lazarus

Anima City runs on fear. If you break hard enough, you awaken a Concept of Doom and get labeled a Demon.If you don’t, you’re a Fuller—and the Fullers run the city with guns, laws, and a military called The Authority. Death is the one rule no one argues with. Until it breaks. When the Authority’s executioner Jibril burns Maxwell’s best friend Booster to death, Maxwell doesn’t awaken power—he snaps reality in half. His Concept, Re-Zipper, isn’t meant to resurrect anyone… but grief doesn’t care what powers are for. With jacket zippers and pure refusal, Maxwell stitches Booster back to life, committing the one crime the universe itself forbids. Now the Authority wants them erased.Because if death isn’t final, neither is their rule. Wearing a defiant mask and a louder name—Lizark Maximum—Maxwell turns rebellion into spectacle, Booster becomes living proof of the impossible, and Anima City learns a dangerous truth: The dead can stay dead.Or someone can say no. And the world might not survive the difference.