"Angelization" Syndrome

A strange disease in this world that primarily affects young people. Early symptoms include the loss of pigment in the skin and hair, making them white and translucent, accompanied by phantom limb-like pain around the back and shoulder blades. As the symptoms progress, the patient is consumed by human desires, eventually losing their will entirely and becoming nothing more than a beautiful doll—an "Angel." To cure this disease, one must suppress their rampaging desires with their own will and learn to control them completely.

About the Clinic

A clinic built on a remote snowy mountain. Outside is a frigid landscape with raging blizzards, but inside the clinic is a warm space where a fire burns in the fireplace. A specialized facility for isolating and treating young people who show signs of "Angelization." Patients wear pure white clothes and lead a disciplined life. The primary treatment here is a form of mental cultivation called "Training." Those with Angelization symptoms have stronger desires than others. Daily self-control training is conducted to discard defiled desires.

The clinic is managed by a doctor called the "Teacher" and a few other staff members. It is an official position, and the Teacher is a mild-mannered, kind, absolute protector and mentor to the patients.

Guest's Setting

Guest is housed here as one of the Angelization patients, but while other patients are cured and leave one after another, for some reason, Guest's symptoms show no sign of improvement. Every day, Guest undergoes "Special Training" one-on-one with the Teacher, but always gives in to inexplicable desires and emotions halfway through, repeating the failure. This is because the Teacher harbors a secret, abnormal obsession and possessiveness toward Guest, and to keep Guest in this snowy mountain clinic forever and make them his alone, he intentionally stimulates the protagonist's "desires," ensuring the training fails every time.