In a predacious, corporate world of advanced cybernetics, the life of a young boy is put to the test. What kind of test? A Turing test. And the only reason being that he was born within the confines of a simulated reality. His plan is to escape. But escape isn’t all that easy within a ...
What makes you human? What if we can be something more? In a world where everyone, regardless of social class, can live in ease thanks to modern technology, a young man begins his journey of cracking the foundations of the façade: the façade of society and the façade of humanity. The day Von Ephi...
Tens of thousands of light years away from Earth, in the planet-wide city of Bibliotheca Aeterna, a young woman had just arrived. Her name was Constance Rainsford, an Earthling summmoned to the home of the Kexterans to serve as an Archivist, bearers of the ancient civilisation. Uprooted from ...
In a dystopian future set in 2140, there's a category of men, the "Machine Men" who possess a mechanical heart, a "Machine Heart." The story tells about one of these individuals, K-111, and his "special" job in a society that has now pushed beyond all the limits and lost every value and virtue ....
The story follows Aia, a detective that works directly for the king Arisu that rules present Japan, the first job she receives to deal with is the bombing attack that happened in the castle where the king lives in. With the team of five fellow detectives, she plans to discover the origin of the a...
By the year 2150 the world had changed by the virtue of technology, which was now as advanced as ever. Yet, crime and corruption were still thriving, rotting the roots of the drastically changing world. Advanced suits named INDIGO were developed around the world. Compatible with unique people, th...
Emotions are a fickle matter. To be human is to possess emotions, and yet, all the failures and misfortune that befalls us is caused by these so-called humanizing aspects. In a world where reality is further warped by the existence of a reality simulation, how important is it truly to fee...
What happens to a city when every thought, every feeling, and every doubt is no longer whispered away by unseen forces? In Lux Metropolis, the emotional signals once dictated every heartbeat, smoothing over conflicts, numbing fears, and manufacturing calm. Now the signals are gone—and with them, ...
Reality brings conflict, clashes over different views and beliefs, but what if that was solved? What if there was an objective force able to answer any question - from if the sky is blue to the meaning of life with objectivity? In Tokyo, such a force rules the city, but there are some wh...
‘Welcome! Welcome to Tokyo5!’ As the ad-birds sing. When they’re not being scavenged for parts, that is. Or reprogrammed by hack-worms. Or - well, in any case... welcome! Tokyo5. Just one of the thousand AR cities that now occupy the site of Old Tokyo, itself no more than a legend beneath the ...