After the Service, My Songs Got Colder

Chaewon keeps her hands steady while a hunter cries in front of her, then goes home and writes notes from the raid that no one else was allowed to hear. That habit makes her useful, and it makes her dangerous. When she transfers to a boundary academy built for young performers and dungeon workers, she is forced to smile through staff politics, student rivalries, and the strange cost of crossing between two rule-bound regions. A borrowed laptop is taped inside her vest, a planner stays shut in her locker, and a marked retirement tablet sits in her jacket like a threat. Seorin keeps finding reasons to stand beside her, and every small kindness lands like a bruise. Chaewon wants to keep her job...