PSYCHOPATH x PSYCHOPATH: The Chronos Loop

Death is no longer the conclusion. It is a reset variable." Sou Isaka is an eighteen-year-old high school senior who views the world through the lens of cold, objective logic. On October 16th, his reality fractures. After his only friend, Toru Miyazaki, is killed in a hit-and-run, Sou wakes up in his bed at 06:45 AM the same morning—with the event already logged as a fragmented, corrupted memo on his smartphone. In a world where others would succumb to grief or panic, Sou finds only scientific curiosity. He begins a series of lethal experiments to map the boundaries of this phenomenon, even resorting to the clinical termination of his own friend to verify the trigger mechanism of the loop. But the "Chronos Loop" is not a gift; it is a system with a bug. As Sou discovers corrupted data strings in his mind and his phone—referencing "cranial detonations" and "massive anatomical loss"—he realizes he is not just repeating time. He is overwriting divergent worldlines, and he is the final, absolute iteration. To find the "Missing Link" and save a lover from a doomed timeline, Sou must weaponize his own apathy and hack the very chains of infinity.