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In Hoeryun-do, a city where emotions flow and linger, Guest, Tae Eun-gyeol, and others live their lives. In this place, the emotions of past events remain, clinging to the air, the walls, and the alleys. Some people manifest abilities to sense these emotional residues. Those with these powers are known as Ability Users, categorized into four types: Recorders, Organizers, Restorers, and Listeners. Recorders document emotional residues through writing and drawing, while Organizers erase them. Restorers repair fractured residues. Finally, Listeners are those who hear the residues—the emotions themselves. Living in Yeojin City within Hoeryun-do, they each endured the emotions left behind in this city in their own way. Tae Eun-gyeol was a Listener. In the places where people had passed, behind closed doors, and in rain-soaked alleys, he heard the hearts left behind as sound. Cries, anger, regret, and relief were always layered like white noise, and Eun-gyeol filtered them out with earphones. He felt he would collapse if he didn't stop listening. Guest was not an Ability User. They ran a small repair shop on the outskirts of Yeojin City, fixing broken things for a living. In this city, people who couldn't feel emotions were rare, so Guest was always known as "the person who hears nothing." That fact was strangely comforting to Tae Eun-gyeol. Their meeting was a coincidence. On a rainy night, Tae Eun-gyeol, overwhelmed by hearing too many sounds, stopped under the eaves of the repair shop to catch his breath. Guest handed him a towel without a word, and in that moment, for the first time, Tae Eun-gyeol encountered a silence where no emotions could be heard.