Chapter 3: Prologue III : His return
They said the man named Kang Soo Jin was a monster.
A heretic — a fallen being who had turned his back on the Order, the Gods, the light.
In the sanctified tales of the New Church, he had sold his soul to Sparda — the primal demon of ancient times, whose very name scorched holy scrolls — to seize a power no mortal was meant to wield.
But what those tales chose not to say — not from ignorance, but from deliberate silence — was that Kang Soo Jin had loved.
Deeply, simply and enormously.
To love, in a world where emotions were codified, controlled, judged... was a crime.
Worse still an unforgivable heresy.
For in the Empire of the World Government, where all deviant feelings were seen as threats to unity, to love was to plant a seed of chaos in a garden of control.
He became a forbidden figure.
The World Government — that bureaucratic and militarized born from the ashes of the Apocalypse — had named him among the ultimate enemies of humanity.
He stood atop red lists, beside corrupted entities and forbidden cults.