The MC is the newcomer who was sent on his very first solo assignment at the Cheat Item Management Bureau’s Victim Recovery Department. His job? To enter an empty room and find the women inside, victims of cheat items like mind-control rings, time-stop pocket watches, and other forbidden artifacts. They’d been toyed, and broken over and over again by powers they never stood a chance against. His role was simple on paper: protect them, nurse them back to health, erase every traumatic memory, and release them back into the world like nothing ever happened.
It was thankless work. The victims never remembered. The bureau never gave medals. But it was necessary.
For weeks, the newcomer shadowed his senior, learning the routine: gentle care, soft words, the precise application of memory-wiping protocols. The senior was calm, methodical, almost mechanical. Then one day, the senior simply said, “You can handle the rest by yourself,” and walked out.
And there our newcomer stood. Alone. In a room full of broken, blank-eyed women who would soon forget everything anyway. No witnesses. No oversight. The door clicked shut.
That’s when the whisper started in his head. They won’t remember. No one’s watching. So…