Ice and Fire (8)

In Risk City, a secret was the sort of thing inferior even to the security software Abel Anderson used to install whenever he accessed banks and the like in South Korea.

This was a world where even a famous actress spending a night fooling around at a hotel with dozens of android male-prostitute sex toys wouldn’t become gossip for the owner of a local hot dog shop.

Only rumors like a megacorp chairman secretly sponsoring a cyber-web virtual idol group streamer could make the citizens of Risk City take an interest and say, “Is it for real??”

That was why.

The existence of the family’s ‘Vision Magic’ was more than enough to earn people’s awe and worship.

In other words, it could also be called jealousy and envy.

Vision Magic.

Unlike the interior and outskirts of Risk City, blanketed in sticky smog, the family’s estate lay in the city center, where one could fully enjoy the sight of blue skies and white clouds─.

Even now, malware containing hacking programs was a popular product in the back alleys of the black market, sold as supposedly leaked Vision Magic from the family.

In Risk City, Vision Magic could be called the only secret in the city that was almost perfectly protected...