## 💾 The Memory Market: A World Where the Past is Currency (2058)
### **The Revolution of the Mind**
The world changed in **2048** when **Dr. Araya Vichyavisit**, a Thai neuroscientist, found a way to digitize human memory. What began as a cure for Alzheimer's quickly became a multi-trillion-dollar industry within five years.
Dr. Araya's company, **Mnemosyne**, is a global giant operating under the banner: **"Keep the Joy, Sell the Pain, Change Your Life Today."**
* **The Mechanism:** People sell their most painful memories—failed marriages, old shames, heartbreak—for cash. The more intense the pain, the higher the price. After extraction, the seller remembers the event but feels no emotion, as if watching a movie they never experienced.
* **The Afterlife of Memories:** While some memories are destroyed or sent to research, most flow into the **Second-Hand Market.**
### **A World for Sale**
By **2058**, the black market thrives globally, starting from underground online forums and spreading into physical, unlicensed clinics in cities like **Bangkok**, now one of Asia's largest memory trade hubs.
The trade is rampant:
* Students buy professors' knowledge to cheat.
* The poor sell childhood memories just to pay rent.
* People buy skills, confidence (CEO's public speaking), or even fleeting love (honeymoon memories).
### **The Social Collapse**
Society has fractured into two main groups:
1. **Purists:** They reject the trade, believing that happiness and suffering are both essential to being human. They protest and attack Mnemosyne clinics.
2. **Traders:** They view memory purely as a commodity to be collected, bought, and sold for profit.
The worst consequence is **"Memory Fragmentation"**: People insert too many foreign memories, leading to psychological breakdown, delusion, and the complete loss of their original identity.
### **The Memory Detective: Karn**
In this confusing world, a new profession emerges: **Memory Detectives**. They are hired to find truth, diving deep into the minds of others to uncover clues for police, families, and victims of deception.
**Karn** is one such detective. With weary eyes and a soul saturated by the dark memories he's absorbed, he can no longer sleep. He's not just hunting the truth for others; he is desperately searching for his **own lost past** within the fragments he trades.
**His story, a quest for truth in a world that sells its history, begins on a rainy night as he enters a prison to buy a memory from a serial killer.**