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He was raised to become the perfect human weapon.
ANHS was built to create the perfect human future.
The moment Ayanokoji Kiyotaka awakened to the Metaverse, both systems began to break.
At Advanced Nurturing High School's elite collegiate division, excellence is currency, image is armor, and every student is measured by what they can become.
Ayanokoji Kiyotaka arrives on the island as just another first-year recruit-quiet, unreadable, and far too capable for someone with no interest in standing out.
But beneath the polished surface of ANHS lies another world.
When Ayanokoji awakens to the Metaverse and is summoned to a mysterious Violet Room meant only for those bound by fate, he gains something more dangerous than power: the ability to hear the distortions hidden inside human hearts. With Horikita Suzune at his side, he is drawn into a hidden war of stolen identities, fractured desires, and impossible truths buried deep within the academy itself.
As more students awaken to their Personas, some become allies, some become rivals, and some choose to walk alone. Together, they begin to move through the shadows of the island as phantom thieves-stealing corrupted hearts, unmasking the systems that shape them, and confronting the parts of themselves they were never meant to face.
But for Ayanokoji, the greatest mystery is not the Metaverse, the school, or the masks everyone wears.
It is the unfamiliar weight growing in his chest.
Because the deeper his bonds become, the more he changes-and the more dangerous it becomes for someone like him to want, to feel, and to love.