o1 ~ the chronicles
K🎧I – Snowy-neon slashed the arcology window like faulty code. Inside Club Void’s Susukino dive, bass throbbed through permafrost bones. Her analog rig hummed warm against my scarred thigh.
I was KAI, no.screenager to the slum kids. Tonight the chrome execs and hybrid suits packed the pit. KAI’s duet partner was Lena Voss, Neo-USR’s golden girl.
Her hologram leaned in mid-chorus, lips syncing my glitch-haiku.
Virus hunts the host…
Then she shattered.
Projection melted into claws, jaw unhinged, eyes burning viral green. The crowd cheered, thinking it was effects. My implants disagreed. They hissed a gain-of-function screech: Hokkaido GOF lab signature. Spliced aggression genes.
Kai had forty-two minutes.
Lina yanked the jack. Kai’s Vision blurred into view. Neo-USR’s “gift” the botched vocal upgrade that turned her into an oracle. Every performance a precrime prophecy. Murder encoded as melody.
Tonight’s killer beat came layered: an enforcer growl, a rival diva’s venom, and Kai was viral, her ghost harmony pleading underneath.
“Remix this plague – Chasing Shadows”
Lena’s fingers slammed the synths. The crowd roared. I hid the GOF coordinates inside the 808 drops: 43.0618° N, 141.3544° E emojis floated with the lyrics. The slum kids would decode them, they always did.
Vents hissed. Hybrid hunters dropped from the rafters, chrome glint dialled to rage-eleven. My KAI’s muse whispered a haiku under the lyrics and into the mix:
Snow falls, foes chase /
Analog heart won’t glitch out /
Sing them to the void.
Sitting backstage, Lena’s real body convulsed. Claws beginning where fingers should end.
It’s time. Lena put on her VR set jacking in and tuned in to KAI…
Chasing Shadows – no.screenager 🎧 VR performance
For Chapter 2 and the ghost-town map: patreon.com/no.screenager
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