In a future where emotions are clearly priced and become top luxury goods, I am Ren, an "emotion hunter" who walks in the gray area. My job is to steal the most intense and precious emotional moments from the depths of other people's memories.
Until that day, I accepted a seemingly ordinary and sky-high commission: to collect the "pure despair" of a master of philosophy before his death. I thought this would be another indifferent plunder, but deep in his consciousness, I encountered a gentle trap.
He has no despair, only a piece of compassion left to the world, and a truth that can burn down the entire civilization - what we have stolen is not emotions, but humanity itself.
Now, the client wants my life, and I will use the "waste emotions" they most disdain--empathy and hope--as weapons to fight back. In this hunt, it is finally my turn as the hunter.
