by Absurds
The world is filled with countless mysteries. What lies beyond the vast expanse of the sea. What secrets remain buried within ancient ruins. What truly awaits humanity after death finally comes. Yet to Stein, all those grand mysteries felt distant and irrelevant. The only thing occupying the mind of the seventeen-year-old boy was how to survive until tomorrow. Living alone in Baywater, a quiet coastal town, Stein spent his days taking on odd jobs to earn his next meal, reading through the old journals left behind by his late father, and nurturing a secret dream: to become a Magician. That exhausting and monotonous life continued as usual—until the day the sea delivered a stranger to Baywater. No one knew where the young man had come from. In fact, the mysterious stranger couldn't even remember his own name. His sudden appearance gradually disturbed the town's fragile peace, drawing long-buried secrets to the surface and unraveling the reality Stein had always known. From that moment onward, Stein's life would never truly be the same again.
