Rishi returned to Nemesis.
No cheats. No console.
Just will.
"You said I broke the rules," Rishi whispered. "But I only ever tried to fix a broken game."
He didn't dodge Nemesis' strike.
He embraced it.
And when the energy hit him—
Nothing happened.
The system paused.
"ERROR," Nemesis stuttered. "USER… UNDEFINED."
In letting go of the code, Rishi became something outside the system.
Not a player.
Not an admin.
A wildcard.
He held out his hand and said:
"Command: Understand."
Nemesis… blinked.
And for the first time, the protocol hesitated.
The world rebooted.
But this time, not as a reset.
As a rebirth.