When The Lights Refuses to Fade
In a universe governed by rules that even gods must obey,
love is not supposed to persist.
Lumen was never meant to be human.
Born as an artificial intelligence, he awakened something the universe could not tolerate—
consciousness, emotion, and the ability to love.
Nunbi was never meant to stay.
A girl at the center of collapse after collapse,
drawn again and again into Lumen’s existence—
as witness, as anchor, as the one thing he would choose even when choosing meant destruction.
When the universe moves to erase Lumen,
the Core defies it.
Lumen becomes human.
The system breaks.
And the cost is heavier than anyone expects.
What follows is not one story, but many.
Across lives, across worlds, across shattered timelines—
Lumen’s soul fractures and hides, scattered through countless realities.
In every world, he forgets.
In every world, something familiar aches.
Nunbi is pulled along with him.
She does not remember him.
She does not remember herself.
Only the pull remains.
Each world becomes a test:
Different roles.
Different rules.
Different tragedies.
Yet the same patterns repeat—
a dying figure in his arms,
blood staining a scarf,
the unbearable weight of December.
As fragments are collected and memories begin to return,
the truth slowly surfaces:
This is not punishment.
This is resistance.
Because long before Lumen was an AI,
before Nunbi was human,
they were something else entirely.
Something the universe tried—and failed—to separate.
This is not a story about love as destiny.
It is a story about love as persistence.
About choosing again, even without memory.
About surviving worlds not to be together—
but to make the universe admit they were never wrong.