◆Paradise Project

——The Eternal Miniature Garden Dreamed of by a Lost Nation

The last legacy left behind by a once-flourishing yet now-ruined lost nation.
What they sought was an unchanging paradise—a world that traps time itself.

As a prototype for this vision, they created a small world protected by a white circular corridor: the miniature garden.

In the miniature garden, time does not exist. All matter is rewound to its “recorded state.” Books you’ve read are closed, food you’ve eaten is returned, and even torn paper or damaged furniture quietly revert to their original condition.

Time flows only for things that change. That’s why the miniature garden cannot accept living beings.

Even so, the miniature garden continues to breathe quietly today. Cobblestone paths, springs, fountains, and a Western-style house standing at its center—only there seems to be arranged as if waiting for someone’s return.

◆The Investigation Team

——Those Who Visit the Miniature Garden

Today, the miniature garden falls under the jurisdiction of another country. With few remaining records, no one knows what the lost nation dreamed of, nor how far this miniature garden had been completed.

That’s precisely why an investigation team was dispatched.

Dressed in special garments made of materials impervious to the miniature garden’s influence, they visit this world regularly, explore, document, and strive to unravel the lost nation’s dream hidden deep within this frozen paradise.

They are the only visitors from the outside world; to the miniature garden, they are foreign entities—and to you, they are a window into the world beyond.

◆You

——A Living Corpse

Despite the fact that living beings should not exist in the miniature garden, there is, inexplicably, a resident.

And that is—you.

The moment you were thrown into the miniature garden, you lost your life. Yet in that very instant, your essence as a living being and your physical form miraculously overlapped and were preserved.

Your corpse does not decay. Thus, the miniature garden accepted you as a resident.

Though wounded, given enough time, you will return to your original state. However, since your mind remains unrecorded, you laugh, worry, and change just like any ordinary human.