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At NIU Institute, students don't disappear.
They get erased.
No records.
No footage.
No one remembers them for long enough to ask questions.
Dhruvan Reddy never intended to stay out of trouble. Loud-mouthed, reckless, and impossible to ignore, he's the kind of person who laughs in places he shouldn't. Especially when people tell him to stop digging.
Ivaan Nanda is the exact opposite.
Calm. Untouchable. Brilliant enough to make people uncomfortable.
And hiding something.
When a student vanishes from campus overnight, Dhruvan starts noticing things that don't make sense:
rewritten files
missing CCTV footage
students forgetting their own friends
corridors that somehow lead somewhere else after midnight
The only person who seems unsurprised by any of it is Ivaan.
Forced into the same investigation, the two become trapped between obsession, paranoia, and a truth the university has spent years trying to bury.
Because at Nandini Institute, the horror isn't the thing hiding in the dark.
It's the system deciding you never existed at all.