"Is this the dark side hidden behind a glamorous city?" Lu Mingfei muttered to himself.
By global standards, Tokyo was a remarkably prosperous metropolis. Sky-high real estate, a dense population, convenient transportation, and towering forests of steel combined to weave a glittering, glamorous cloak for this neon-lit city.
Yet few had ever witnessed the true underbelly of this place. The orderly, well-kept streets of the city were actually a massive maze, or a chessboard. The pedestrians coming and going were merely puppets dangling from strings, or pawns on a board, running in endless loops along the city's avenues, yet never standing a chance of finding an exit in their lifetimes. And pulling their strings, the dark shadows stood towering in a supreme place where no one dared look up, coldly gazing down as those insignificant ants skipped and ran across the city's squares... something hidden behind that colossal black curtain, something that fancied itself a "god."
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