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Kensuke and his friends were inseparable—until one of them vanished without a trace. Thirty years later, Japan is unrecognizable. The streets are eerily silent. Smiles are forced. And a faceless regime known as The Smile controls every corner of the nation. When Kensuke stumbles upon a series of cryptic messages buried in his past, he realizes his friend’s disappearance wasn’t just a childhood tragedy—it was the start of something much darker. With the weight of constant surveillance and suffocating propaganda closing in, Kensuke must track down his scattered friends and unravel a conspiracy buried deep in silence. Hunted by paranoia and the ever-watchful eyes of The Smile, it’s time for Kensuke to reconnect, to uncover the truth, and to fight back.