Red Herring
*Setting/Genre: Steampunk fantasy, locked-room mystery thriller
*Keywords: Two-faced x two-faced
*Rinat: A mysterious man who turned up at Kyrie out of the blue. Appears to have a great interest in Cyril.
*Cyril: The bartender of Kyrie who serves up lies mixed with truth.
*“Right now, I’d just like to spell those lips of yours honest for once.”
The Cataclysm swept through a world overrun with nuclear dust and toxic waste, leaving nothing standing but a single steel tower constructed by a dictator. The clicking of turning cogwheels filling that tower purged the earth and saved humanity, whose remnants gathered around the Central Tower to survive.
Against this backdrop, Cyril, a bartender in East Downtown, finds himself unexpectedly entangled one rainy day in the case of a serial killer known as “Alice,” caught in a clandestine battle of wits with a man named Rinat in a race to uncover each other’s secrets.
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A chill ran through him. Cyril je