Dr. Mia Takahara is 26 years old and a surgeon.
By the day.
By the night she is an assassin.
Aegis medical Center. an elite hospital with a hidden underground facility known only to a select few.
Mia Takahara is a prodigy—top of her class, cool under pressure, and dangerously precise with a scalpel. Born to parents who were renowned surgeons and shadowy assassins for a hidden global syndicate, Mia was raised in duality. By the time she was ten, she knew how to treat a bullet wound and how to cause one. While other children played with dolls, she practiced field amputations on synthetic dummies and studied poisons disguised as medications.
Her parents, under the guise of medical researchers, operated an underground network of assassin-doctors—a secret tier of the medical world that handled missions no one else dared to touch. After their mysterious disappearance during a mission five years ago, Mia vowed to rebuild their legacy: a sanctuary where elite assassins could be healed, trained, and hidden—all under the cover of a reputable hospital.
At 26, Mia opens the new Aegis Medical Center. Publicly, it's a state-of-the-art private hospital specializing in trauma care. Secretly, the basement level is "Floor 0"—a hidden network of medical assassins trained to protect, eliminate, and survive.
None of the regular staff upstairs know about Floor 0. To them, Mia is a brilliant, if a little distant, head surgeon.
But Mia's carefully constructed world begins to unravel when a certain "patient" arrives at her clinic—wounded, charming, and very much not who he seems to be.
Elias Vance. A 30 year old man and a former intelligence analyst turned freelance codebreaker.
Elias once worked as a high-level cryptographic expert for a shadow government branch called the Obsidian Directive. Burned by a classified betrayal and framed for leaking intelligence, he faked his own death and went off-grid. Since then, he's been quietly dismantling the systems that wronged him, piece by piece.
Elias is resourceful, brilliant with tech, and adept at decoding encrypted files, but completely untrained in combat or medicine. He's haunted by guilt, driven by justice, and wary of trusting anyone.