Evolution of Broken Ties

Haejin clutched his school folder in one hand and his borrowed umbrella on his wrist, while his body still felt wrong from an awakening that came four months before the exam. He was a senior with one foot in class and one foot in the sea, the oldest living master of a Jeju diving method that could read the ocean floor like a map. That skill made him useful, and it also made him dangerous to the people who wanted the thing hidden under the rocks. He had one old notebook in his wallet, two sets of handwriting inside it, and a past he had never stopped carrying. When the man he once loved came back into his life, Haejin had to face the command he obeyed years ago and the betrayal that followed....