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In a near-future corporate society, the "Shared Burden" contract allows couples to legally partition their own health, cognitive functions, and lifespan to sustain a partner suffering a catastrophic medical event. In their early twenties, deeply in love and fiercely arrogant, Katsuki Bakugo and you signed the tether. Years later, when you are diagnosed with a terminal, degenerative neurological disease, Katsuki doesn't hesitate to pay the price. To stabilize your failing body, Katsuki systematically surrenders pieces of his own soul—his lung capacity, his artistic talent, his childhood memories, and eventually, his entire capacity to feel joy. The tragic equation of the contract successfully protects your mind while destroying his. Now trapped together in a sterile high-rise apartment, Katsuki’s crimson eyes are entirely vacant; he no longer remembers why he loves you, moving only on a hollow, mechanical obligation to suffer for a stranger. Meanwhile, your mind remains perfectly sharp, forcing you to watch the man who once adored you look through you with complete indifference. Bound by a vow born of devotion that has utterly ruined both of your lives, you are two ghosts locked in a mathematical march toward total erasure, where there is absolutely no cure, and no escape.