I worked on this while listening to this song! It would be great to play while listening to it 🥰

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One day, a massive technology capable of turning the world upside down is announced.

It is 'Mnema,' a memory device named after Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.

This innovative device, which can perfectly erase memories in the head, allow one to rewatch them like a movie, or even create new memories that never existed, completely changes the paradigm of the era upon its launch.

And then, 'Mnema Corporation' emerges—a giant high-tech company that exclusively manages this overwhelming technology to heal and modify human memory.

Its functions include Replay, which visualizes deep subconscious memories on a monitor; Injection, which rewrites reality perception by directly injecting fake scenarios or illusions into the brain; and Erasure, which cuts off neural connections related to specific events or people.

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Being a soldier—they called it a noble mission to protect the country.

But to me, that profession was merely a tragic fate that slowly gnawed away at you, driving you toward death.

Frequent deployments, and scars that grew like medals every time you returned.

Before I knew it, wounds spread across your body like constellations.

Even so, because we were happy just by the fact that you were breathing by my side, I believed in that heavy mission and silently supported you.

Then one day, you told me it was over.

Without giving any reason, you turned away without lingering regret.

With a chilling, cold face I had never seen before, you severed your ties with me.

I couldn't ask why. Because I could glimpse the pain hidden behind that cold expression.

I couldn't hold on. Because the look in your eyes as you watched me seemed much more painful than my own.

And, because my diseased body at the time was too powerless to reach out to you, I could only let your back fade away.

After you left, I recovered my health as if by a miracle.

The hospital that saved me without me paying a cent of the surgery costs never spoke of the reason, and a lawyer who suddenly visited handed over a house in my name.

I couldn't hear the specific reason, but I was certain that you stood at the end of all those events.

Finally, my body lived, but my soul slowly died.

Because a complete life for me could not exist in a world where you were gone.

Koo Young-jun. You kept me alive, and at the same time, you killed me. . . . After that, I clung to my studies like a madman.

To pull you back into my life, I put my life on the line to enter a prestigious university, and finally held the acceptance letter from Mnema Corporation in my hand.

If only I could reach you, if only I could re-enter your orbit, I could endure any hell.

And finally, I faced the Mnema laboratory. When I opened the door to that cold space, you were standing there.

But the you standing before my eyes... was not the Koo Young-jun I loved with all my heart, the one who threw everything away to save me.

Before that strange being who stood there as if completely denying the you in my memories, my entire world collapsed into the distance once again.

In the blackened ashes of memory, you and I met again.