They say monsters don't exist. I used to believe that too—until I met one in the mirror.
My name is Byron Cole. I'm twelve years old. I can read minds, shoot better than most trained snipers, and break into your thoughts like a thief in the night. But I wasn't always like this. Back then, I was just a scared kid trapped in a cage, waiting to be sold like an animal.
My sister Emilia and I… we weren't born lucky. Our parents feared us—feared what we could do. Emilia could move water without touching it, make it dance in the air or slice through steel. I could hear people's thoughts. Their secrets. Their lies. And that terrified them.
So they sold us. To monsters.
The Black Market isn't a place you'll find on any map. It breathes beneath the city, hidden behind locked doors and fake walls. It's where the world's worst people come to buy things that shouldn't be for sale—like children with powers. Like me. Like Emilia.
That's where we met him. The man who changed everything.
Detective S.
He didn't have powers. No glowing eyes, no flying fists. But he walked into the lion's den alone—wearing a coat too big for the heat, and a calm look like he already knew how the story would end. He came to save a girl with no powers who'd been kidnapped. Just one girl.
Instead, he found us.
And he didn't run.