The Electrified Break

During the global "break" of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world slowed down—but for Aki, a frustrated student, it was the beginning of a digital descent. While his peers used "Alt+Tab" to hide their laziness from their parents, Aki used it to veil a growing obsession with the Dark Web. What started as simple exam cheating soon spiraled into a high-stakes life of stock market manipulation, bank hacking, and cold-blooded cybercrime. By 2022, Aki appears to be a successful young professional at Lumoryx, but his reality is a fractured glass. He is haunted by the presence of his mother, unaware that he murdered her years ago in a depressive rage; his daily interactions with her are nothing more than a shattered hallucination. His double life takes a gruesome turn when he lures a young woman named Minori into his web. Together with a crew of dark-web associates, Aki commits an unspeakable act of violence, harvesting her organs in a ritualistic frenzy. But the digital world he sought to master has a dark price. In 2024, the hunter becomes the hunted. Aki is found dead in his apartment, his body intact on the outside but completely hollowed of organs on the inside—his brain shriveled to a mere 2cm. As more bodies appear across Tokyo with the same impossible surgical precision and a piece of technology left nearby, the city realizes that Aki wasn't just using the web... something inside the web was using him.