Meritocracy's Prey

In the hyper-competitive halls of Seika Academy, every student is a node in a ruthless ranking system that mirrors the nation's gutted welfare state. When scholarship student Kai stumbles upon a data ghost linking the school's elite to a transnational trafficking ring, she uncovers a crimson supply chain ferrying women from the impoverished Southern Continent into the neon heart of the capital. As a captured woman named Mei stages a desperate mutiny inside the pipeline, Kai must weaponize the academy's own cold-blooded protocols to dismantle a conspiracy where the campus is not a sanctuary, but a training ground for predators.