Nyoshin 454 Mio ❲2024❳

On the night of her 454th month—an arbitrary milestone the facility celebrated with a slightly larger portion of fish—Mio decided to leave.

The only other survivor was in Cell 001. They called him the Ghost. No one had seen him in years, but Mio could feel him at night: a cold, patient pulse from the deepest level of the facility, five floors below her. He never moved. He never slept. He just waited . Nyoshin 454 Mio

“You’re the first,” she replied.