So Momota became a ghost wearing a fox’s face. She dismantled a human trafficking ring not for justice, but because its leader wore her father’s military coat. She ruined a banker not for the poor families he evicted, but because he reminded her of the soldier who had laughed after her father’s death.

But the deep wound was this: she had no one. Her mother had died of fever in a foreign port. Her uncle had vanished when the syndicates came calling. And the boy she once loved—Kenji, who had promised to meet her under the cherry blossoms after the war—she had seen his photo in a police file, dead by his own hand, accused of collaboration.

One night, a young girl stumbled into her apartment—fifteen, trembling, clutching a bloody envelope. “They killed my brother,” the girl whispered. “You’re the Vixen. Help me.”