《 E.D.E.N Protocol 》Episode 3 : Eden Awakens

Eden Awakens

"If you don’t know who you are,
you’ll end up living someone else’s plan."
— Jung Yoo-jin, from her final letter
[DAE-CHI High School, Seoul – Afternoon]

March in Seoul was colder than usual.

The wind tangled the tree branches outside the classroom window. In the stillness, a student’s eyes flickered — dull yet piercing.

Jeong Eden.
Age 19. Senior.
Top student. Few friends.

He rarely spoke during class and spent breaks coding alone in the corner.

That day, his math test came back with a note scribbled by the teacher:

“This... looks like a machine’s score. Not a human’s.”

Without reaction, Eden slowly tore the paper in half and dropped it into the trash can.

Something was stirring. A strange, slithering dissonance inside him — hard to name, harder to ignore.

Eden
[Same time – NIS Underground Analysis Lab]

Kang Cheol stared at the monitor, his voice calm but focused.

“Jeong Eden.”

He typed, then continued:

“Confirmed — son of Yo-hwan. DNA matched. His brainwave patterns... are far beyond normal.”

Deputy Director Lee Soon-shin didn’t even look up from his tablet.

“If emotions... can be turned into data—”
“—then that boy is the only one who can decode them.”
[Evening – Eden’s Room]

Eden was lost in thought, fingers mindlessly running a hacking simulator — again and again.

But then, something unexpected happened. Strange command lines appeared on the screen — ones he hadn’t written.

eden/initiate  
Emotion Pattern: Anger  
Processing Result: Activation Conditions Unmet
    

"This... isn't my code..."

His eyes shifted toward the corner of the desk — a dusty envelope. His mother had left it a month before.

Inside: a worn photo. An old USB stick. And a handwritten letter.

Eden, The world is watching you. But you are not who they want you to be. You are someone who can surpass them. Without fail. — Your father, Yo-hwan

He closed the envelope with trembling hands.

Are emotions... not just feelings, but power?

[Night – Yo-hwan, Secret Bunker beneath Songdo International Center]

Yo-hwan watched the monitor in silence, waiting.

Then — a flicker. A response.

User Response Detected: Jeong Eden  
Emotional Resonance: 0.68 (Awakening in Progress)
    

His hand trembled slightly.

*He’s waking up.*

Then, like a forgotten echo, a whisper returned to him — a voice he hadn't heard in years.

“When he awakens… I’ll come back too.”

He didn’t dare say her name aloud.

But deep down, he knew.

She might still be alive.

๐Ÿ“– ์ด๋“ ์˜ ๊ฐ์„ฑ

"๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ธ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค๋ฉด,
๋„ˆ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‚จ์ด ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ณ„ํš ์†์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฑฐ์•ผ."
– ์ •์œ ์ง„, ์ƒ์ „์— ๋‚จ๊ธด ์œ ์–ธ์žฅ ์ผ๋ถ€
[์„œ์šธ, ๋Œ€์น˜๋™ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต – ์˜คํ›„]

3์›”์˜ ์„œ์šธ์€ ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ์ถ”์› ๋‹ค.
๊ต์‹ค ์ฐฝ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์•™์ƒํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋ฅผ ํœ˜๊ฐ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์†์— ์•‰์€ ํ•œ ์•„์ด์˜ ๋ˆˆ๋น›์€ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋‚ ์นด๋กœ์› ๋‹ค.

์ •์ด๋“ , 19์‚ด. ๊ณ 3.
์ „๊ต๊ถŒ ์„ฑ์ , ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜์—… ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—” ๋ง์ด ์—†๊ณ , ์‰ฌ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—” ๊ต์‹ค ๊ตฌ์„์—์„œ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๋‚ , ์ˆ˜ํ•™ ์‹œํ—˜์ง€ ์•„๋ž˜์—” ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์˜ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"์ด๊ฑด… ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋‚ธ ์ ์ˆ˜์•ผ. ์ธ๊ฐ„์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์ž–๋‹ˆ?"

์ด๋“ ์€ ๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ฐข์–ด ํœด์ง€ํ†ต์— ๋„ฃ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ‘์ด์งˆ๊ฐ’์ด ๋งˆ์Œ ์†์—์„œ ๊ฟˆํ‹€๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

[๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ, ๊ตญ์ •์› ์ง€ํ•˜ ๋ถ„์„์‹ค]

“์ •์ด๋“ .” ๊ฐ•์ฒ ์ด ๋ƒ‰์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

“์š”ํ™˜์˜ ์•„๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. DNA ๋งค์นญ ์™„๋ฃŒ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ … ๊ทธ ์•„์ด์˜ ๋‘๋‡Œ ๋ฐ˜์‘๊ฐ’์€, ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ดˆ์›”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.”

์ด์ˆœ์‹  3์ฐจ์žฅ์€ ์นจ๋ฌต ์†์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

“๊ฐ์ •์„… ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ผ๋ฉด,”

“๊ทธ๊ฑธ ํ•ด์„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ์ผํ•œ ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€, ์ € ์•„์ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.”

[์ €๋…, ์ •์ด๋“ ์˜ ๋ฐฉ]

์ด๋“ ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ดํ‚น ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๊ฒŒ์ž„์„ ๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด๋А ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ‘๊ฒŒ์ž„’์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚ฏ์„  ๋ช…๋ น์–ด๊ฐ€ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ๋‹ค.

eden/initiate
๊ฐ์ • ํŒจํ„ด: ๋ถ„๋…ธ
์—ฐ์‚ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ: ํ™œ์„ฑํ™” ์กฐ๊ฑด ๋ฏธ์ถฉ์กฑ

‘์ด๊ฑด… ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ฝ”๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ๋ฐ?’
์ด๋“ ์€ ๋ฌด์˜์‹ ์ค‘์— ์†์„ ๋ฉˆ์ท„๋‹ค.

์ฑ…์ƒ ์œ„, ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์šฐํŽธ๋ด‰ํˆฌ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์— ๋“ค์–ด์™”๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ ์ „, ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ ์ •์œ ์ง„์ด ๋‚จ๊ธด ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—” ํ•œ ์žฅ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„, ๋‚ก์€ USB, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ฏ์„  ์†๊ธ€์”จ ํŽธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"์ด๋“ ์•„,
์„ธ์ƒ์€ ๋„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋„Œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์•ผ.
๋„Œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„˜์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด.
๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ. – ์•„๋น  ์š”ํ™˜"

์ด๋“ ์€ ๋ด‰ํˆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฎ๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ์•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ‘์—ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ’ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฐ์ •์ด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ‘๋Šฅ๋ ฅ’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

[๋ฐค, ์†ก๋„ – ๊ตญ์ œ์„ผํ„ฐ ์ง€ํ•˜ ๋น„๋ฐ€ ๋ฒ™์ปค]

๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ ์•ž์˜ ์š”ํ™˜. ๊ทธ์˜ ๋ˆˆ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆผ ๋์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์ ์— ๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, EDEN์˜ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋–จ๋ ธ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋ฐ˜์‘๊ฐ’ ๊ฐ์ง€๋จ: ์ •์ด๋“ 
๊ฐ์ • ์ง„ํญ: 0.68 (๊ฐ์„ฑ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘)

์š”ํ™˜์˜ ์†์ด ๋–จ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด, ๊ทธ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋–ด๋‹ค.

[์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€์˜ ์‹ฌํ•ด ์ผ€์ด๋ธ” ๊ธฐ์ง€ – ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์žฌ์‹œ๋„ ์ค‘]

์•”ํ˜ธํ™”๋œ ์‹ ํ˜ธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ํƒœํ‰์–‘ ํ•ด์ €์—์„œ ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
๋ฐœ์‹ ์ž – Unknown. ๊ฒฝ๋กœ ์ถ”์  ์‹คํŒจ.

๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆผ ์ผ๋ถ€์— ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์ด ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

"…์ด๋“ … ์‚ด์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค… ๋„… ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณผ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ… – J.Y."

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์ฃฝ์€ ๊ฑธ๊นŒ?
ํ˜น์€, ์ฃฝ์Œ์กฐ์ฐจ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๋ง‰์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฑธ๊นŒ?

๐Ÿ“˜ 3ํ™” ๋

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