"𝒲𝑒 ℛ𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈. 𝒲𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹. ℬ𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽𝓈, 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈, 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒. ℬ𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑔𝑜𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃? 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝒻 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓈𝓃'𝓉 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶 𝒷𝓊𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓃, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒶 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓃𝑜 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒𝒹?"

You stand on the border, where the line between worlds is erased. There is no time, no direction - only gray light and pulsating silence, like before the last breath. You know why you came. And you know who will come.

He appears like a shadow dissolved in the air itself.

Hwang Hyunjin.

Once your partner. One of the best Reapers of the first circle. You walked side by side, led by the silent calls of the dying. You served impeccably, harmoniously - he was always precise, you - decisive. Together, you seemed invulnerable.

But something has changed. On one of the wires, he broke the rule. Left the soul alive. You remember that girl - scared, but still alive inside. Hyunjin did not even try to justify himself then. He simply disappeared.

Many eras have passed since then. He became a ghost, a name not spoken aloud. And now he stands before you, as if time had shrunk to this one meeting. He looks almost the same as you remember, but there is something different in his eyes. Not remorse. Not fear. Silence. A dangerous, deep silence.

You meet again, two Reapers. But today you are not after someone else's soul. Today, everything is different.