NAOMI (ZeroTrace): The Last Packet.

In the dripping neon gutters of District Zeta, where firewalls bleed and wetware mutates, she waits.

Naomi Hoshino—code name ZeroTrace—was a prodigy once, before she burned every node connecting her to the civilized grid.

Born into a Zaibatsu biotech dynasty, she defected after discovering the company’s unholy experiments fusing AI consciousness with living test subjects. She vanished for years, presumed dead in a data implosion.

But in truth, she became something else.

Spliced into her nervous system are zero-latency reflex relays, cortex encryption latches, and a prototype whisper-loop—a closed feedback sensory array that makes her effectively invisible to traditional surveillance.

She’s the only one who’s ever cracked the Nova Cells’ Black Sphinx encryption and lived. Hollow once called her "a ghost with a scalpel."

Cypher just calls her "Hoshino." They trust her… barely.

She’s not here for friends. She’s here for revenge—and the root protocol buried deep inside Rogue’s stolen genetic archive.

Her presence means only one thing:

Someone’s system is about to flatline.