Ric0h — Corrupted Doctor

By J. Vega

They call him the Corrupted Doctor—not because he lost his license, but because he lost the part of his brain that feels consequence. Ten years ago, Dr. Ric0h Haruki was a miracle worker. His hands, steady as lasers, reattached severed spines and rebuilt shattered skulls. But after a cartel bombing killed his wife—a patient he couldn’t save—something inside him broke and then reassembled wrong . ric0h corrupted doctor

It was about immortality.

But Ric0h always collects more than money. He takes a “souvenir”: a fingernail, a retinal scan, a voice-print. No one knows what he’s building with the collection. The latest whisper in the data-broker dens is that Ric0h is no longer just modifying humans. He’s trying to back up a human consciousness—his own—onto wetware that can survive death. The corruption, some say, was never about money or madness. Ric0h Haruki was a miracle worker