"What if paradise was a prison... coded by guilt?"
Scene: Dive Room – Spirit-Slayers' Base
Airi connects the neural jacks to Hiragi's temple.
Ishigami configures the Void Firewall.
The USB pulses like a heartbeat.
Hiragi: "If I don't come back in ten minutes—"
Ishigami: "We delete the drive. And mourn you with honor."
Airi: "Stop being dramatic. You've fought cursed ink. You can handle cursed code."
Hiragi closes his eyes.
Enter: Eden.exe
Scene: Eden – Sector 1: The Garden
Lush trees, eternal sunrise, no pain.
Children play. Elders smile. All too perfect.
Hiragi walks, confused. No ghosts. No blood.
Then he sees her—the glitching girl.
"You found me… but it's too late."
Suddenly, the sky glitches—tearing like paper.
Descending from above is a white-masked enforcer wielding a blade made of 1s and 0s.
"Hiragi.exe detected. Unauthorized emotion. Initiating deletion."
Battle: Emotion vs System
Hiragi draws from Void: The Rewrite Edge.
They clash—code vs will.
Eden reacts violently. NPCs scream and vanish. Grass turns into blue code.
Girl: "You have to find my core. I'm in Sector 7. That's where I died."
Back Outside
Airi: "Hiragi's pulse is erratic."
Ishigami: "He's resisting automated sedation algorithms. Impressive."
The server emits a low growl. Electricity arcs across the ceiling.
Something's trying to forcefully disconnect him.
Airi: "He's running out of time."
Back in Eden
Hiragi stabs the enforcer through its glitch-core.
"You're not real. You're just a filter built to bury the truth."
The enforcer screams, dissolving into warning popups.
ERROR: EMOTION BREACH – SECTOR 1 CORRUPTED.
SECTOR LOCKDOWN IN 3… 2…
Hiragi runs.
Toward Sector 2. Toward the truth.
To Be Continued...