by YSiGn_
Between the ruins of a world forged in rust and silence—The Trench—and the suffocating grace of a suspicious paradise, Shin Kurosawa and his companions stand upon the razor's edge between survival and a curse. Rakuen wa Uso o Tsuku (The Paradise Lies) is not a pursuit of salvation; it is an autopsy of the human soul and the price paid when suffering is forcibly stripped away. In this realm, bliss is no reward—it is a sentient predator that feasts on scars. Power is not a gift, but an "Ather"—a grotesque distortion birthed from the deepest fractures of the psyche. Confronted by monsters that evolve through human terror and survivors who deify their own delusions, the protagonists are forced toward a singular, jagged question: Is it more noble to endure a truth that shatters you, or to inhabit a lie that mends you?
