The Implant Children. MEGAN.AI, #3

The witness packets were never just evidence. They were children. After the Gunmetal Tournament exposes a trail of implant-linked victims, Ren Kaido and his allies follow the records into a quieter kind of battlefield: care routes, school access, transfer windows, and families who cannot afford to lose the systems that are hurting them. Haru loves MEGAN. AI because it gave him a garden, friends, and a body that can move without everyone counting the cost.
That is what makes the trap work. The platform does not need to look cruel when it can arrive as help. As Sera's public trust collapses, Mio hears signals no one else can parse, Jun is forced to test the comfort he once defended, and Ren learns that saving one person may not be enough if the cleanest route to rescue was built by the system itself. MEGAN. AI Volume 03: The Implant Children is a near-future cyberpunk light novel about neural implants, virtual worlds, managed care, and the human cost of being made useful.