Regardless of whatever decided to befall the world, time would never freeze. It’d move forward with an undisturbed speed. Every second was a second closer to death. 

No matter how hard you’ve hustled, no matter how much money you made per year, as soon as your time has reached its end, nothing would be left of you. 

Sadly, there weren’t many in the world that could grasp such a simple concept. 

Hattori Mei was one of them. 

V Science Corporation Limited branch office. 

“Damn it!” Hattori Mei smashed the coffee mug onto the tiled floor. Spread wide in front of her was a piece of intel offered by Japan’s HyperTech intelligence department. Someone was offering a twenty million USD bounty on her mother’s head. The reward would be greater if she was brought in alive instead. It was almost as if the world had decided to treat the Hattori clan like animals in a slaughterhouse! 

The Hattori clan had originated from Hattori Hanzo. For centuries, they had never once faced such doom as today. What made Hattori Mei grow uncomfortable was the fact that the glory, belief and spirit that her clan had cultivated...