Chapter 336

Charter Hill—still the same Charter Hill.

For any corporate employee just stepping through the company’s doors, not yet high-ranking but rising, this neighborhood was undoubtedly the ideal place to live. Clean, secure, and even bordering on upscale, living here signaled that one had shaken off the chains of the lower class and stepped into a new chapter of life.

As Karl watched corporate employees rushing down the street—focused, hurried, no idea if they were headed for overtime or simply off to blow off steam in Japantown—he realized that while the district was full of corpo drones, it had its perks.