by seyama
Amano Shinonome was a man of perfect, agonizing order. A royal clockmaker obsessed with ticking seconds, jeweler's loupes, and microscopic brass gears. Then a terrified madman with an iron tool shattered his masterpiece. The universe decided Amano was an infection. It wants him erased. Flushed down a dimensional fissure, Amano hits the dirt in a rotting world fueled by Memoria, the physical, combustible energy of memories. He is an Anomaly, a cross-dimensional refugee whose very existence causes the multiverse to collapse in on itself. Worse, the universe has an aggressive immune system. Melanians. Ash-skinned hunters with pitch-black voids for eyes, who wear stolen human skin and exist solely to butcher anomalies like him. Drafted into a meat-grinder military squad, Amano fights alongside a bratty hoarder with steel claws, a polite boy playing soldier, and a quiet executioner swinging a scythe. They bleed together in the freezing mud. They build a family. They fall in love. And then, the universe violently rips their hearts out. Erased from the timeline completely.
