The girls of the Social Welfare Agency are no ordinary children. They are the grizzly remains of human wreckage pieced back together with cybernetic implants and trained to kill by the government. The oldest, Triela, pursues her targets with a ferocious enthusiasm – unwilling to settle for less than total annihilation. Her mirror in this bloody stalemate is Pinocchio, a shell of a boy raised as an assassin by the FRF – a terrorist faction at war with the SWA. Cold and cruelly efficient, he wields sharpened steel as though it were his own hand. Once human, these shattered souls have become murderous machines with only vague recollections of what it meant to be real – and a brutal compulsion to be the last killer standing.
Triela and Pinocchio arent conditioned to let people walk away from them. After tonight, one of them wont be walking at all.
Cristiano loses his grip on the empire of evil he helped create. Meanwhile, Pinocchio and Triela move towards a reunion theyve both been expecting.
Franca decides on a bold course of action in order to protect Cristiano, but the Social Welfare Agency is one step ahead.
Before they were given new life as cyborg assassins, the girls of the SWA were nothing more than victims. Trielas story may be the most gruesome of all.
As Henrietta grows more devoted to Jose, he begins to experience a strange sense of alienation towards her perhaps stemming from hard to shake visions of the past.
Henrietta and Rico are at odds over a broken kaleidoscope, but they must set aside hurt feelings and focus on thwarting an FRF assassination attempt.
While Angelica continues to readjust, Priscilla thinks back to a time before she lost Marco to the Social Welfare Agency.
Angelica returns to the field, but something still isnt right. Marco must work quickly to get her under control before she becomes a liability to the mission.
Triela and Hilshire are sent to locate an investigator who disappeared while tracking Pinocchio. In the course of the mission, two deadly assassins meet face to face.
Pinocchio was once a boy like any other, but a cruel twist of fate turned him into something unrecognizable. Now, hes the number one target of the Social Welfare Agency.