"Not all sins are actions. Some are truths too raw for the world to forgive."
Within the Vault – Deeper Descent
Jiwoon stepped into a new layer—this one felt… hollow.
Not dead. But waiting.
The floor was made of unspoken confessions.
The air buzzed with regrets no one dared to voice.
[System Log: Language unrecognized]
[Caution: You are entering a semantic blind zone.]
Echoes of the First Emotion
Whispers curled around him—not words, but emotions:
A mother abandoning her child out of love.
A soldier saving an enemy because he saw his own brother in his eyes.
A god who stopped a war by erasing half his memories.
Each action was tagged in the Sin System… but the tag had no label.
Jiwoon: "These… aren't sins. These are contradictions."
The Entity with No Name
From the fog, a shape emerged.
It had no face, no form—only motion like tears falling upward.
"I was the first to be erased not because I broke law…
but because I proved the law could be broken by care."
Jiwoon stepped closer. "You're not a monster."
"That's what scared them most."
Test of the Unnamed
The entity pulsed—and Jiwoon felt its pain.
He was pulled into a memory not his own:
A world where every good deed became guilt.
A system that couldn't tell the difference between love and manipulation.
And in that world, mercy killed more than wrath ever could.
[System Trial Initiated: Undefined Category – 'Sin Without Intention']
Jiwoon: "This is the system's greatest fear…"
Jiwoon's Answer
He raised the Paradox Glyph from EP.42.
"I'm not here to deny sin exists.
I'm here to make sure the system stops punishing people for feeling."
The memory dissolved.
The entity whispered:
"Then you are not a codebreaker.
You are… a reconciler."
End Scene
In Jiwoon's chest, a second glyph formed.
[Core Relic Acquired: Heartbound Scale]
[Effect: Grants partial immunity to judgment-based emotion filters.]
The Vault began to shift.
And Jiwoon whispered to himself:
"The system was never wrong because it judged.
It was wrong because it stopped listening."