Before the Dawn Breaks

Jaein spent her days arguing over gate reports and her nights drawing a webtoon on no sleep. A reunion with her old classmate Dojun pulled her into company rooms, old favors, and a secret she had guarded so long it felt like her own skin. She knew how the law worked when monsters crossed into the real world, and she also knew how people used silence to keep each other safe. The problem was that one sealed ticket, one hidden key, and one copied handbook kept pointing back to the same missing explanation. Dojun still spoke to her like he had never left, and that made every unsaid year harder to ignore. Jaein could read a contract in seconds, but she could not read why the truth had stayed buri...