Story of the Youth: Journey to Fear (Issue No. 4)

The price of perfection is the soul.

KAI, known as the Iron Prince, is the epitome of the Eterna Alliance's power. Clad in his signature brutalist knight helm and advanced 4EVER suit, the African American operative moves through the treacherous, neon-drenched streets of the 0.75 K-Scale society with stoic logic and inhuman precision. He is the ultimate soldier because he has no internal weakness: KAI is pathologically incapable of feeling fear. This emotional detachment is his greatest strength in the war against the predatory 3D Enterprises.

But when KAI is assigned a covert operation-a deep dive into his own cybernetic past that exposes the source of his disassociation-his controlled world shatters. The mission forces him to engage a 3DE counter-agent who uses emotional manipulation and technological trauma to break down the Alliance's most hardened operatives. With his AI companion, Flicker, serving as his only emotional barometer, KAI is pushed toward a literal and psychological vulnerability threshold.

To succeed, KAI must discard the safety of his logic and choose to experience the very human dread he has spent his life suppressing. The Fearless Circuit is a relentless urban neo-punk thriller that demands KAI finally confront the terrifying truth: that the only way to save the future of Arcadia is to risk the shattering of his own perfect, fearless mind.