The road to the next artifact was unlike any the team had taken.
> [Destination: Nullscript Abyss – Realm of Erased Characters]
Entry Condition: Possession of the Heartshard of the First Thread.
Warning: Entities within are unstable and hostile.
Administrator Presence: [Detected]
Yui stood at the threshold of the Nullscript Abyss, her hand trembling slightly despite the calm in her expression. She had remembered herself, reclaimed part of her soul—but now, she had to face the beings outside her story.
And one of them had erased her ending.
Azarion placed a hand on her shoulder. "Are you ready?"
"No," she replied. "But I'm going anyway."
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The Abyss
They stepped into a skyless realm.
Everything was made of half-formed ideas—fragmented code, floating dialogue boxes, twisted versions of characters that had never survived a rewrite. Some begged. Some screamed. Some simply stared, lost in endless loops.
And through it all echoed a single voice:
> "Draft incomplete. Structure compromised. Initiate total redaction."
The Administrator.
A shadowy figure descended from above, cloaked in ribbons of corrupted code and narrative tape. His face flickered, always shifting—a hundred versions of a writer who never truly knew Yui.
"You shouldn't exist," he said flatly. "You were erased. Your story was rejected."
Yui stepped forward. "Then why am I still here?"
The Administrator's voice turned cold. "Because you infected your world with self-awareness. Because you made the characters remember."
He raised his hand—and thousands of redaction markers rained down.
> [Boss Encounter: Editor-Class Entity – ADMIN.0v7]
Class: Archivist of Silence
Special Trait: Immune to Plot-Based Damage
Status: HOSTILE
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The Battle
Selene summoned the Mirror of Neverborn, reflecting each attack back—but even its power cracked under the Administrator's authority.
Kale used the Quill of Undoing to erase lines of false commands—but the Editor regenerated them instantly.
Azarion lunged, shadows blazing, only to be caught mid-strike by an unseen narrative lock.
Only Yui stood untouched.
"You can't delete me," she said softly. "Because I'm the one who wrote you."
The Administrator hesitated.
> [Ink Resonance – Rewrite Pulse Activated]
Yui's fingers shimmered with golden ink as she reached into the Editor's core—and rewrote a single line.
Not a command.
A truth.
> "You were created to end stories. But I was born to continue them."
The light shattered the void.
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The Victory
> [Administrator Defeated – ADMIN.0v7]
Artifact Reclaimed: The Erased Epilogue
Type: Narrative Keystone
Effect: Grants access to sealed plot threads and timelines.
Bonus Passive: Unwritten Fate – Immune to narrative death once per arc.
The erased characters looked at her—not with fear, but hope.
She turned to them.
"You were forgotten. But you mattered. I promise—I'll remember you all."
One stepped forward—a boy with a cracked crown.
He smiled. "Thank you, Warden."
Then they faded, finally at peace.
---
As they exited the Abyss, Azarion whispered, "You're not just reclaiming this story."
"No," Yui said quietly. "I'm reclaiming everyone's."
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Far away, the Echo King knelt in a chamber of mirrors. One shattered.
"She found the one who deleted her," he murmured.
"And she won."
His smile returned—but it was tinged with something new.