Prologue -
Time isn't a straight line.
It's a loop. A knot. Sometimes... even a trap.
I don't know who I am anymore — or when I am.
There was a time when life felt normal.
School, my mother's quiet smile, the world moving forward.
But then, I touched it.
The Time Core.
And in that moment, time let go of me...
or maybe, I let go of time.
My name is Aren.
A boy who fell from the future into the past.
One mistake shattered me...
and this broken world gave me a reason to piece myself back together.
Here, I met —
A girl who listens to no one but her own heart. Aika.
A shadow of myself that wants to erase me and become what I never could. Echo.
A faceless being who wears the faces of others. Spiral.
And a silent guardian whose power shakes time itself. Arka.
This isn't just my story.
This is the story of an era that was never meant to exist.
This is the Distortion Era.