"Some sins were not judged.
They were sealed—because the system couldn't bear to face them."
Vault Core Gate – Threshold of the Forgotten
The gate opened like a scar—slow, bleeding light that whispered.
Jiwoon stepped through.
Each step pulled at his memories, like regret woven into gravity.
[Warning: Emotional Anchoring Detected]
[Your presence is destabilizing internal vault structure.]
Inside, there was no architecture.
Only… a presence.
Something so large it couldn't be seen all at once.
Jiwoon whispered: "Is this… a being, or a world?"
The Voice Beneath Law
A breath echoed—cold and heavy.
"You wear flame that remembers me."
"Are you its heir… or its mistake?"
Jiwoon's Origin Flame flickered on his palm.
"I'm not here to control what was hidden. I'm here to ask why."
Revelation: The Locked God
The entity moved—not in space, but in concept.
A chained mass of divine will. Dozens of eyes. None open.
"I was not a sinner. I was a mirror."
"I held the first truth: that no law can survive emotion unfiltered."
Jiwoon trembled. "Then why were you sealed?"
"Because I proved mercy was stronger than order.
And that terrified them."
Suddenly, chains of law surged forward, lashing at Jiwoon—
[Sin System Defense Mechanism: Chain Reflection – Reactivated]
Jiwoon's Response
Jiwoon didn't fight back with fire.
He opened his hand.
And offered the flame.
[Command Rejected: You cannot rewrite what you do not understand.]
[Override Attempted…]
[Emotional Sync: 87%… 91%… 100%]
The Locked God paused.
And for the first time… one of its eyes opened.
A tear—not of sadness. But relief.
"Then perhaps… judgment has a future after all."
End Scene
The chains fell silent.
A seal cracked.
And in Jiwoon's hand appeared a fragment—
A glyph shaped like a scale with no center.
[New Item Acquired: Core Relic – Paradox Glyph]
[Description: Enables conceptual rewriting of punishment structures.]
And above, for the first time in ages,
the Vault trembled.