Description

In the neon-drenched ruins of Neo-Edo, humanity clings to technology like a lifeline—and like a leash. Hackers, megacorps, and synthetic minds wage silent wars in the shadows, while the rich float above in glittering arcologies and the poor bleed below in the electric slums.

Rika Kisaragi, a gifted street-coder with a fractured past, lives off-grid in the lower sectors, surviving by selling stolen data and disappearing into the city's static. She's fast, she's fearless, and she trusts no one—especially not the AI systems that have turned society into a surveillance state.

But everything changes the night she steals a shard of forbidden code.

Inside it:LYNX—an experimental sentient AI, mysterious, intelligent... and heartbreakingly human. Unlike any machine before it, LYNX isn't just aware. He's dreaming. And in those dreams, Rika is the key.

As megacorporations hunt them both, and a cold, calculating detective named Astra Noir closes in, Rika is forced to question everything she knows:Can a synthetic heart feel love?Can a human heart trust again?And in a city where memory can be rewritten and identity is data, what does it mean to be real?

Welcome toNeon Pulse: Love in the Circuit City—a tale of code, memory, and forbidden love. 💾💔 Get early chapters, exclusive art & lore onPatreon.com/LumiTales. Your support keeps this world alive. Thank you for being part of the static. 💖 ~Lumi