This brand new chapter fills in the gaps between the manga The Ghost in the Shell: Human-Error Processor and Man-Machine Interface, offering an intense cyberpunk thriller written by Junichi Fujisaku, the screenwriter of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series.

Togusa and Tsunagi are chasing a suspect when a van suddenly crashes into the suspect's car, instantly killing the van's driver. As Togusa connects to the man's cyberbrain, he sees residual images of a group of children and a masked figure saying, “I am a warrior.”

Then, an autopsy reveals a shocking truth: the driver was not killed by the collision, but by a neurotoxin derived from the venom of the African black mamba. Section 9 needs answers, and Togusa and Tsunagi are dispatched to the Sahel Special Economic Zone. What mysteries await them in the “oasis of the Sahara?”