"Not all sins vanish when forgiven. Some linger… waiting to be felt."
Location: Outer Fringe – Sector Null_13
As the Codex rebuilt the system core, Jiwoon felt a disturbance beyond the reach of light.
There were places the system refused to remember.
Sins too deep, too ancient, too inconvenient to record.
And now—those shadows stirred.
[System Alert: Residual Sin Detected – Classification: Forgotten Wrath]
[Threat Level: Undefined]
[Status: Immunity to current ethical frameworks]
Jiwoon's Mission: Unmapped Territory
Jiwoon stepped into the sector without coordinates.
The space was silent—but not empty.
Screams echoed without sound.
Buildings stood, but no time passed through them.
He muttered:
"This isn't part of the system anymore…
This is what it abandoned."
Manifestation: Forgotten Sin – Vel Nare
Suddenly, the shadow coalesced into a figure—
Part child.
Part beast.
Part history.
"You rewrote justice, didn't you?" the voice rasped.
"Then where is mine?"
Vel Nare was not a demon.
Not an AI.
It was a memory of injustice so deeply denied, it gained form.
Combat – Ethicless Entity
[Combat Initiated: Jiwoon vs. Vel Nare]
[Note: Target is not bound to morality. Cannot be judged, forgiven, or redeemed by standard means.]
Jiwoon reached for the Codex.
Nothing responded.
"Of course," he whispered.
"You're not a system glitch.
You're what people tried to forget… and failed."
Solution: Feel, Not Fix
Vel Nare struck with shadow claws—guilt and pain turned weapon.
Jiwoon didn't block.
He let the memory hit.
He saw the war Vel Nare came from.
The betrayal.
The silence.
Then he said:
"I can't fix you.
But I won't let you fade again."
He knelt and placed his palm on the shadow.
System Record Update
[Manual Archive Created: Entry #000 – Injustice That Was Ignored]
[Status: Shadow Integrated as Ethical Scar]
[New Function Added: System Empathy Echo – Allows future users to feel weighted history before judging.]
End Scene
Jiwoon stood, eyes heavy.
The Codex responded—not with approval, but with acknowledgment.
Because not all justice is clean.
And not all sins should be forgotten.
"To carry justice forward…
One must be willing to carry its ghosts."