"Two centuries have passed, but your sins still echo in my name."
The wind blew cold across the academy grounds—a place where youth chased power, where the strongest wore their pride like crowns. Students lined up beneath the crystal pillar, waiting for the test that would reveal their Divine Mark.
Jiwoon stood at the end of the line, silent.
No one knew his name.
No one remembered him.
Because to them… he had never existed.
But Jiwoon's memory was sharper than ever—sharp enough to pierce through time. Two hundred years had passed since the Trial of the First Sin. In that abyss, time crawled and screamed, devouring his strength, mocking his sanity.
And yet—he survived.
A False Identity, A Hidden Purpose
Jiwoon's entry into the Divine Mark Academy wasn't coincidence. It was arranged.
Not by the school.
But by the Sin System itself.
Upon his return from the interdimensional rift, the system embedded a forged identity into the world's records—planting a fabricated background, citizenship, and recommendation scroll under the name Kwon Jiwoon, an orphaned prodigy from a remote province.
No one questioned it.
Because the system made it so.
The academy's headmistress, unaware of the manipulation, accepted Jiwoon as a transfer student for the new semester—believing him to be one of the rare unawakened candidates with dormant potential.
But Jiwoon didn't come to learn.
He came to observe.
To prepare.
To judge.
The Test of Awakening
"Place your hand on the crystal."
Jiwoon obeyed.
The moment his skin touched the surface, the sky trembled.
The crystal turned pitch-black.
Then shattered.
Everyone was thrown backward by an invisible shockwave. A sound followed—not a voice, but a roar—a deep, monstrous sound that echoed with power far beyond comprehension.
Images flashed across the minds of all present:
A throne made of bones.
A dragon cloaked in black fire.
A city drowning in sin.
Then… silence.
When they woke, the crystal was gone. So was their memory of what they'd seen.
Only Jiwoon remained kneeling, eyes closed, pretending to be unconscious.
Aftermath
"He… destroyed the crystal?"
"No, it just broke. Must've been defective."
"But… that roar—"
"What roar?"
No one remembered.
No one could remember.
The system had locked the memory behind a veil of divine suppression. And only Jiwoon, the one who had overwritten the Sin System once before, retained the truth.
Jiwoon's Thoughts
"Two hundred years."
"I wasn't just forgotten. I was erased."
"But now… I'm back."
"And this time, I'll rewrite the world itself."