Retention Without Storage

This paper examines retention without storage within a non-modal structural framework. Retention is not treated as memory storage, archival persistence, preserved identity, or temporal continuity. Storage is not treated as the origin of retention, nor as the condition that stabilizes maintained structure. The text argues that retention remains structurally maintained without storage equivalence. Storage does not produce retention. Retention is the structural condition under which stabilization remains maintained. Retention is not generated through causality, temporality, preservation, or subject-dependent continuity. Stabilization is not treated as permanent persistence, but as maintained readability under constrained structural conditions. This paper develops an interface layer between readable retention and storage-oriented systems without reducing retention to memory, preservation, or information accumulation. This paper is part of the Interface Layer within Kasei-Theory.