Hi there -- sure, I'll offer feedback, if that's what you're looking for. As a note, I work as a professional writer and marketing professional, so I tend to get a bit nitpicky.
Right off, the first sentence to the first chapter is incorrect and not "strong" enough as a start:
- "It was" is the weakest sentence construction in the English language, in my opinion, and should be struck from the record; and
- "as what was" is grammatically incorrect. (You're looking for "as was all too common," or -- more awkwardly -- "as that was all too common.")
Then, as I continue, I see verb tense issues -- for example, you start with past tense in the first paragraph and switch to present in the second before switching back to past -- and a prediliction for purple prose. Specifically:
- It's okay to say "said"! In fact, you want a reader's attention drawn toward what's being said directly, not simply how it's being stated.
- Experiment with selecting only a few relevant details, instead of painting the entire city at once. You can say a lot by focusing on just important parts of a scene, rather than cramming everything in at once. (That goes a long way to showing us Shiko City as "the city of steel and neon ... a hell ringed in metal, pretty lights and false promises," rather than info-dumping and telling us.)
The paragraphs are generally much too bulky, too, for online reading. You need to cut them up into a sentence or two, if possible.
(On another formatting note, the inconsistent indents for each paragraph distract on desktop and are difficult to work through on mobile.)
Thematically, it's a traditional start for a noir steampunk thriller, which is awesome! Nice choice to start in the middle of the action, even if it is a guy getting beat up for no reason that we can tell. Certainly more exciting than my own intro on Questing.
Honestly, I think the kinks I'm pointing out here are just a matter of experience and practice -- and your continuing to write through these issues will naturally smooth them out. It just takes a TON of time and patience.
If I may, I'd recommend reading outside of your genre. It sucks at first, but there are quirks and idiosyncracies that each genre has -- from the steamiest bodice-ripper, to the next great sci-fi epic, to this strangely enthralling historic recounting of the Chernobyl disaster that's currently living on my Kindle. By absorbing these stories and books, you'll have more personal tools from which to draw to improve your own writing.
Personally, I know I'm a better writer because of that, and my characters are happier, too, for all they're stubborn little twerps who don't want to play as I've planned.
I sincerely hope I helped -- and best of luck with your story. You've already got more subs and views naturally than I do, so of course, take what I've said with a grain of salt. You've got this! 