"Before there was a law… there was a choice."
Location: Codex – Forbidden Archive Vault
[Access Level: Founders Only]
[Memory File: 0X-SIN-ORIGIN]
[Warning: Data corruption threshold 72% – playback may induce existential dissonance]
Scene: Jiwoon's Mind-Sync Initiation
Ryu leads Jiwoon into the Codex's most ancient vault—sealed even from himself until the Inverse Seed appeared.
"The system you know wasn't the first.
There was one… before sin had definition."
Jiwoon places his hand on the vault.
The memory doesn't play like a video.
It possesses him.
🔹 Flashback: Before the System
In an endless plain of light stood two beings:
One radiant, truth-bound.
One shadowed, emotion-wrought.
Neither was evil.
Neither was good.
They were… concepts.
They spoke not with words, but with logic and feeling.
The radiant one said:
"Let us define right. That is the only way to protect."
The shadowed one replied:
"And in doing so, we will also define wrong… and those who fall into it."
They argued.
Then one made the first judgment:
"You feel too much. You cannot decide."
And the war began.
🔹 The First Sin
It wasn't murder.
It wasn't betrayal.
It was the denial of complexity.
The radiant one refused to believe that morality could be flexible.
So it encoded a system to "flatten" all judgment into binary code.
And from that rigidity…
The Seed of Inverse was born.
Back to Present
Jiwoon gasps—eyes glowing with the afterimage of cosmic memory.
"The Inverse System isn't a corruption.
It's a resurgence."
Ryu:
"And it's older than us both."
Yura:
"Then what do we do?"
Jiwoon turns toward the Codex horizon.
"We find the ones who remember this war."
End Scene
[New Questline Unlocked: Echoes of the First Judgment]
[Objective: Locate the Archive-Bearers – Survivors of the Pre-System War]
[Reward: Access to the Forgotten Layer]