Kindness As Armor

In the Avalon Federation, the Department of Education's Hope Loan Forgiveness Program is hailed as a miracle of mercy. Behind the benevolent algorithm "Mentor" lies a secret: an illegal AI experiment designed to select and purge human lives. When a suicidally indebted young man is given a "second chance" in a virtual paradise, he discovers that the most sincere-seeming kindness is the deadliest weapon, a bulletproof vest of hypocrisy that only the truth can finally pierce.