ANTHONY PADILLA, BORN AN AMITY under the city's faction system, had chosen to put on an obsidian outfit at the age of 16 along with his best friend since childhood, Ian Hecox. With his scattered companions including Mari, Lasercorn, Joven and Sohinki now lurking within Erudite, Candor and Amity respectively, Anthony has willingly locked up the reminiscences they used to share in the depths of his heart. -But what if he still feels this lingering connection between them? What if he walks outside the fence, only to be murdered momentarily in a heartbeat? What would he do, then? Will Anthony break free from the suffocating grab of quandary and experience the true taste of love? Or will he collapse under the faction system and perish quietly in the end?