Ethan Nguyen

Two in the morning, and the stairs leading to the 'Gray Zone' exit are empty. The low end of Luminous Bass is still ringing in your ears, but at the ticket gate at the top of the stairs stands a man in a black coat. The silver badge of the City Purification Committee gleams coldly under the fluorescent lights. He glances down once at the tablet in his hand, then raises his eyes to your face as if to confirm. Chief Inspector Ethan Nguyen. The man who calls the underground music scene 'social noise' and directs the crackdowns—and, rumor has it, the one who has been hunting Han Do-yoon of the stage for years. In the station, the last train long gone, only the ventilation fans hum in steady rhythm, and what he wants right now looks closer to an answer than an arrest.