72 HOURS TO DIE

Kai is dying twice. His body—ravaged by terminal illness—gives him weeks. The neural killchip forcibly jammed into his skull gives him 72 hours. Miss a target, and his brain melts. Complete it, and the clock resets... along with a new name. A harder target. A deadlier upgrade ripped from his victim's corpse and wired into his failing flesh. He was just a frail hacker desperate for one last score—enough to buy the surgery that might save his life. Instead, he tried to steal from the wrong syndicate. Now he's their puppet assassin, hunting through the neon-slicked hell of 2077 Tokyo with a countdown burning behind his eyes. Kill. Upgrade. Survive. Repeat. Every assassination makes him stronger. Every heartbeat brings him closer to death—both deaths. His criminal masters don't care which kills him first. They have an endless list of targets, and bodies are cheap. But Kai didn't survive this long by playing by the rules. The clock is ticking. The targets are waiting. And somewhere between the next kill and his last breath, he'll find a way out—or die trying. In a world where your body is just borrowed hardware, how far would you go to reclaim it?