The Hollow Circuit War [Cyberpunk Samurai Dark Fantasy]

In a neon-lit capital where torii gates record every passerby and a bureaucratic HUD decides who is damaged, useful, or ready for disposal, Itsuka hunts yokai (bugs) for the system that keeps the city running.She is good at surviving. Too good.Years of impossible shifts have left her exhausted, replaceable, and with nowhere else to go. Then a corrupted update produces something wearing her face.It knows her memories. It knows the ideals she abandoned. And it keeps asking questions she would rather leave unanswered.As computational pressure tears holes through the city and her own authentication begins to fail, Itsuka finds herself caught between a system that still needs her labor but no longer knows how to classify her, and a second self that refuses to disappear.Escaping may be possible.Freedom is another matter.