Hyde burned through the neon veins of Neo-Kowloon like a short-circuiting wire, leaving a trail of broken data and burnt bridges in his wake. He sought a high-stakes thrill in the shadow of the Velvet Circuit, only to find the silence of a jammed neural-core and a leaden end. He died as he lived: a marked man, caught between the gears of a city that never learned to forgive.