The Clockwork Ripple: A story of time, regret, and the courage to let go.

Ren, a quiet, meticulous clockmaker, lives a life defined by the steady, unyielding ticking of his workshop. He is a man frozen in time, haunted by the memory of Airi, his companion who vanished three years ago near the town's dry, concrete riverbed.

When a fractured, antique pocket watch lands on his workbench, Ren accidentally triggers a temporal anomaly—a recursive loop that pulls him back into his own memories of her. But rewriting the past comes with a heavy price. As Ren struggles to alter history and save Airi, the structural geometry of his town begins to splinter, collapsing into a surreal landscape of giant, grinding iron gears and digital static. Forced to confront the living manifestation of his own grief, Ren must make a final, non-recursive choice: cling to a beautiful, artificial loop, or find the strength to let time move forward.