(dub) 1 :: The Story Of Daigo

"Keep it tight, kid," his mentor, Old Man Kai, would wheeze. "The machine knows when you're afraid." Daigo wasn't afraid. He was restless.

Daigo grew up in the Shadow District, a place where the rain always tasted like copper and hope was a luxury few could afford. His father had been a master mechanic for the corporate elites before "The Reset," leaving Daigo with nothing but a toolbox and a legacy of grease-stained hands. (Dub) 1 : The Story of Daigo

One Tuesday, a sleek, matte-black transport pulled up to his garage. Out stepped a woman in a suit that cost more than Daigo’s entire block. She held a data-chip. "Keep it tight, kid," his mentor, Old Man Kai, would wheeze