The Slow Knife

In the industrial city of Aurelia, a minor carriage collision shatters a streetlamp and triggers a catastrophic chain of events. An innocent bookkeeper is mistaken for a criminal, ensnared by corrupt lawmen, and crushed by a merciless judicial system. Years later, the truth emerges—not as a triumphant release, but as a slow knife that has long been twisting in the souls of the living, embodying justice so belated that it becomes a chronic flaying of the human will.