Chapter 1 · free to read
23:07. The seventh blackout this month. Seoul learned to hold its breath in the dark.
Same posing. Same knot. A copycat of the Candlelight Killer — executed six years ago.
Everyone in the division knew where the ashes were. Nobody had checked in four years.
Seven strikes. Seven outages. She overlaid the map — and the string drew a spiral tightening toward the river.
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