The Verdict's Shadow

In the hyper-secure Kenzai Detention House, where every breath is monitored, condemned inmate Kaito Shirosaki dies hours before his execution under impossibly sealed conditions. Disgraced journalist Rui Asano is anonymously tipped that Shirosaki's death is part of a clandestine state program. As she infiltrates the prison's facade of absolute order, she discovers that society’s technological progress has only refined the darkness of the human soul—transmuting the death penalty into a chilling harvest of human organs and neurological data. In a world where justice is automated, crime is no longer erased; it is perfected.