The Forbidden Zone of Ink-Black Eyes

In the depths of space, an ultimate war over "memory" and "forgetting" is unfolding. Earth, a planet shrouded in the darkness of the "Mirror Abyss." Survivors use "Silent Film" cameras to record the last traces of light: streets in the old city, the faint glow of the Seed of Stardust deep within the planet, figures marching with "Silent Films" held aloft... These fragments of "original memories" are humanity's only weapon against the "God of Forgetting." At the heart of it all are two "Guardians of Memory," chosen by fate: Zhou Mo, a researcher at Earth's "Deep Earth Laboratory," accidentally awakens the ability to create "Silent Films." His camera can pierce the God of Forgetting's "Dark Stardust" corruption and capture the "original memories" of stardust civilizations: the first time someone gazed at the stars from a cliff on Sirius, a Centaurian poet's "fruit of memory," the "memory bubbles" of Andromedan jellyfish... Each memory proves that a stardust civilization once existed. Su Yu, a "memory scientist" from the Stardust Alliance, possesses "twin pupils" that can observe the energy of memories. She researches "memory resonance" and restoration, skilled at deciphering the emotions and history of civilizations from fragments and providing Zhou Mo's "Silent Films" with precise "memory coordinates." Beneath her cool rationality lies deep empathy for "the forgotten": among those corrupted memories are the cries of Sirius's inhabitants as they were devoured, the diary of an Earth survivor growing "memory flowers" amid the ruins, and countless civilizations yearning to be "seen." The two meet when the "Stardust Gate" opens. The ancient gods' "memory crystal" resonates with Earth's "Silent Film," revealing the forgotten