A future where capital punishment has been abolished.
Can the state pass judgment without taking a life?
 

Japan, 2085. The death penalty has ceased to exist, replaced by a new proposal: social reintegration through personality correction.
Death row inmate No.8049 is the first to face this program. Did he truly commit the crime he was convicted of? And if his memories and personality are rewritten — is he still the same person at all?

A closed-door panel convenes inside Tokyo Detention House. A legal scholar, an ethicist, a psychologist, an education specialist, a victimologist, and a neuroengineering researcher each bring their own vision of justice into collision. The grief of the victim's family. The shadow of wrongful conviction. The need to prevent reoffending. The danger of unchecked state power. No one holds a complete answer — yet the future of one human being hangs in the balance.

No.8049 is near-future science fiction and a philosophical courtroom drama in equal measure — one that asks what it means to be human, to be free, to be held responsible. What is "rehabilitation"? What is "justice"? Is survival truly the same as salvation?

These are questions that will stay with you long after the last page. A story that puts your own sense of right to the test.