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[𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆] - Saint Michael University, Cambridge - an institution older than memory, more beautiful than mercy, and far more dangerous than either.
It is a place where brilliant boys are shaped into brilliant men. Where legacies are built on marble and myth. Where history is written by those who survive long enough to hold the pen.
But history, like truth, has a way of rotting beneath polished surfaces.
When Kim Seonho - scholar, skeptic, and the brighter of the Kim twins - vanishes without a trace, the university offers silence. No investigation. No answers. Only the cold insistence that some questions are better left unasked.
His brother, Kim Sunoo, knows better.
Quieter. Overlooked. Always one step behind - Sunoo arrives at Saint Michael's not to mourn, but to search. To slip into the life Seonho left behind. To become him, if that's what it takes to find the truth.
But playing the role of a missing brother means inheriting his enemies. His secrets. His ghost.
And Park Sunghoon - student body president, untouchable scholar, and the last person to see Seonho before he disappeared - is watching.
He notices the differences. The hesitations. The way Sunoo answers questions Seonho never would have asked. The way his hands shake when no one else is looking.
Sunghoon should report him. Expose him. Protect the institution that made him.
Instead, he starts to fall.
Because beneath the university's gothic towers and pristine lecture halls lies something older. Darker. A secret woven into the bones of Saint Michael itself - an experiment in memory, identity, and the malleability of the human mind.
Seonho found it.
And it destroyed him.
Now Sunoo must answer the question his brother died trying to solve:
If your memories are rewritten, your personality reconstructed, your past erased-
-are you still you?
Or just another version of the truth someone else chose to believe?