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The pain and the lies

John_Nuella
In a future where pain is outlawed and emotions are strictly regulated by the Ministry of Equilibrium, Elian Rho is a Neuro-Technician tasked with erasing traumatic memories. To most citizens, he's a healer. To the underground, he’s a memory smuggler. But when a mysterious memory core surfaces—one containing a child’s scream, a forbidden voice calling his name, and encrypted data linked to a black-listed operation—Elian is thrown into a web of lies buried deep beneath the city's sterile perfection. His AI assistant goes silent. Ministry agents close in. And for the first time in years, Elian begins to feel again—fear, grief... and guilt. As the line between artificial memory and reality blurs, Elian uncovers a hidden truth: the Ministry didn’t eliminate pain—they just buried it. Now, hunted by the very system he helped build, Elian must piece together a forgotten past, reconnect with a ghost he thought he'd lost, and confront the terrifying cost of emotional "purity." Because some memories were never meant to be erased.
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