Chapter 40

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In a South Korea where the law lets the state inflict exactly the harm a criminal caused, first-grade harm assessor Yoon Taekyung turns injuries into the numbers that decide punishment. Hours before the nation's first eye-for-an-eye execution, he finds that the victim's records hid a preexisting condition, and that an unlisted exclusion code leads to a sealed file called Case 0000, created months before his sister's death. As each new case blurs the line between victim and offender, Taekyung digs into a system where someone is quietly manipulating the numbers.

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