Hunger is a curse.
Sometimes, it’s the only thing that keeps you alive.
Akio Vayne is the last vampire in existence—or something close enough to pass for one. Careful, elusive, and severely depressed, he is a creature built for survival, instinct, and need, now reduced to shadows and silence.
Then there’s Zenith Moore: the most dangerous hunter alive. They call him the Human Monster, and he doesn’t kill for money or glory. He kills because boredom has teeth—and his have been gnawing for far too long.
When Akio falls into his orbit, survival doesn’t feel like survival anymore. It becomes something colder, quieter, and far more dangerous.
Because Zen isn’t the kind to simply kill monsters.
He toys with them.
Two monsters circle the same kind of emptiness. One is trying to find a reason to stay alive, while the other is searching for a reason to feel anything at all. Neither is ready for what they’ll find in each other.
And neither is prepared for what comes next.
When the Council intervenes, the rules change. Monsters are no longer just hunted—they are controlled, studied, repurposed—weaponized.
Zen is forced into a system built to control the very creatures he was trained to destroy. So he makes a choice.
He chooses the hunger he should have killed.
Because when the world reaches for one of them, the other refuses to let go.
And something changes.
Hunger stops being just instinct.
It becomes something else—something that feeds as much as it starves, something that fills the emptiness they were both trying to outrun, something that blurs the line between control and connection until…
Neither of them knows who belongs to whom anymore.
