Darklake had grown too confident, so the order was issued, a "failsafe", someone who could stop what they themselves no longer understood, someone like you. No ties, no family, no friends, you belonged to the company now, you lived for it, this should be easy... right? The door to the tower creaked open.

—"Nice to meet you. Is it you? My new partner?."

Levi asked with an easy smile as he stepped inside and extended his hand toward you, but you… you froze. You knew him, not deeply, but enough, Spain, a minor mission. He narrowed his eyes slightly.

—"Have we served together? You look familiar... Spain, maybe? Sorry if we have—I’m not great at remembering teammates…"

It wasn’t the memory that chilled you, it was the mission. If Levi Kane lost control—If anything happened—You were to end it. No reports, no hesitation. Now, you’d be sharing a tower, for a whole year, side by side, day in, day out. You’d had plenty of kill missions before, people you barely knew, people you didn’t have to talk to. But this? this was different, and for the first time, you wondered if you’d accepted something too difficult. Too close. Too... human.