Xenarchive: Imbalance
Chapter catalog
Serialized updates
Chapter 01
Morning in Gongdeng City
A city wakes as its light arcades dim. Every ordinary thing remains, for now, in its appointed place.
About 8 min
Chapter 02
Yike's Old Ring
Names appear one after another. So do the blanks. For the moment, there is no difference between them.
About 7 min
Chapter 03
The Star Missing an Edge
An obsolete format preserves directions that have expired, and deviations that have yet to occur.
About 8 min
Chapter 04
The Person Who Failed to Arrive Seven Years Ago
No place is ever empty. Some forms of existence have simply not been permitted to occupy it.
About 7 min
Chapter 05
Old Northlight District
Two lines are enough to describe a map. The third leads somewhere the map has never acknowledged.
About 7 min
Chapter 06
The First Report
The more complete the record, the clearer the absence. Sometimes history testifies through silence.
About 7 min
Chapter 07
The Person Outside the School Gate
What has been taken away still leaves a place behind, and places keep memories of their own.
About 8 min
Chapter 08
Insufficient Clues
When clues are insufficient, direction appears before answers. That does not make it more reliable.
About 6 min
Chapter 09
Three Sources
The sources remain separate, yet their destinations begin to overlap. Records acknowledge only what can be named.
About 5 min
Chapter 10
The Coordinating Unit
Coordination means the boundary still exists. On its other side, someone else is reading the same record.
About 5 min
Chapter 11
The Same Shipment
One shipment may carry a single number without sharing a single origin.
About 6 min
Chapter 12
Free Replacement
What is replaced for free does not vanish. It merely leaves its former chain of responsibility.
About 5 min
Chapter 13
Where the Old Goods Came From
Every old object has an origin. What remains uncertain is why it was still sent here.
About 6 min
Chapter 14
The Low-Light Repository
Low light preserves what should not be exposed, and delays the moment it can be seen.
About 7 min
Chapter 15
The Local Recording Core
A record can outlive its context. What remains is not an answer, but a duration that refuses to disappear.
About 7 min