In the Cyber Celestial Court, a former judge of the Book of Life and Death, demoted to “data recovery worker,” discovers that all the humans the System deems “worthless” and deletes are actually being used as food by higher-dimensional beings. Every memory he recovers is a weapon of resistance.
In a world where everything is quantified, those “worthless” moments, an aimless wait, a smile with no reward, a useless memory, are humanity’s final epitaph.
“If the System decides your life has no value, I’ll fold your tears into paper cranes and let them fly for a thousand years through the ruins of the data.”
