Once born into this world, you must live. That is the single truth that exists for all life in the beginning. Mentors and models to follow, the will to do good and abhor evil. Are all a fiction we learn later, a fiction known as “ideology”. Living this fiction is what makes us human. But do we need such ideology to be human, as we do our limbs? Does that make those who lose or abandon such ideology less than human does it make them limbless maggots.

When immortal, unidentified beings called “Witches” began to appear, the government responded by quarantining the metropolitan area. And ceding the land from their sovereign borders. Though old Kajou City became a ghost town for a time, criminals, illegal immigrants, and defaulting debtors. Who couldn’t make a living in this corrupt world sought refuge in the city, followed by an influx of prostitutes. Black market dealers, and yakuza seeking to take advantage of them.

Maggot Baits