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Every beginning leans on the bones of an ending. Every ending kneels to the next beginning. But what if the cycle of suffering could be stopped forever? Jin Mori just wants to protect what's left of his family. His strange power to create unbreakable barriers got him into Silver Spire Academy, but it can't heal the grief of fresh graves. He doesn't want to be a hero—just a brother who can keep his sister safe. Damien Veridian sees the world as a flawed system to be optimized. As the disgraced heir to a warlord house, he carries memories of a past life and a game that taught him this world's brutal rules. He knows how the story ends: in fire and stillness. And he'll manipulate anyone—even the kind-eyed boy from his forgotten past—to change the outcome. Sung Ji-Hoo heals everyone but himself. Cursed with a power that amplifies others' abilities at the cost of his own soul, he drowns in the guilt of a past he can't remember and a demon that whispers how much easier it would be to feel nothing at all. Three boys with powers that define reality's laws. An academy built on ancient bones and hidden hunger. A creeping stillness that offers peace through oblivion. As their paths collide in a world where power is measured in suffering endured, they must answer the question at the heart of existence: Is a story worth telling if it must hurt to be told?