Luigi Mangione pressed his back against the damp alley wall…
His breath short, controlled bursts.
The air smelled of burning plastic…
The scent of a city suffocating under its own corruption.
Above him, a drone hovered, its infrared scanner sweeping the streets.
The Board’s Enforcers had every corner of this city locked down.
Facial recognition systems, neural ID trackers, AI-driven predictive policing—all designed to ensure men like him never made it this far.
But he had.
And tonight?
Another billionaire was going to die.
Luigi checked his pulse pistol. One charge left. Enough. He didn’t need firepower—he needed precision.
Across the street, a penthouse loomed above the city like a golden fortress. High above the slums, untouchable. That’s what The Board always thought. That’s what they all believed.
They thought money was power.
They thought the system would keep them safe.
They were wrong.
A name burned in Luigi’s mind.
His next target…
Elon Musk.
First, Elon Musk bought Twitter.
And ran it into the…
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