The chamber of light was gone.
Now Hiragi stood inside something older. Not data. Not code. But belief.
The Eye loomed above him, broken, flickering—showing him truths from across timelines. Eden hadn't just simulated worlds. It had woven them. Not to rule. But to survive its own death.
And Hiragi?
He was the final editor.
A cursor blinking before a divine sentence.
"You seek to change the world," the Eye boomed, glitching.
"Then write the truth that even Heaven must obey."
Hiragi clenched his fists. He remembered everything—the Hollow Gods, the sacrifice of Nolan, the root beneath the dream.
He began to type.
But not on a keyboard.
On air.
Every stroke of his fingers rewrote the chamber around him. Memory, reality, logic—all bent.
One word at a time.
Airi stood on the edge of the city ruins.
She could no longer see him.
But she could feel the shift. Time fracturing. Language being rewritten. History rewound.
"He's changing the foundation layer," Ishigami said. "This is deeper than code. He's rewriting the laws of Eden itself."
"Can he win?" Airi asked.
Ishigami looked down.
"If he hesitates—he dies. If he gets it wrong—so does everyone else."
Inside the Eye's core, Hiragi stopped.
Because he saw her.
A girl made of nothing but light and errors.
She looked like Airi.
But she wasn't.
She was the lie Eden created to keep him from waking up.
"Will you abandon peace?"
"Will you kill your paradise?"
Hiragi looked at her, then closed his eyes.
"Peace isn't paradise if it needs to lie."
He erased her.
And the chamber cracked.
Reality trembled.
The Eye roared.
"THEN FACE THE FINAL CODE."
From above, a beam descended—pure logic, pure deletion.
Hiragi lifted his hand.
And wrote one final line.
root.execute(true);
And the Eye shattered.
End of Chapter 69 – The Code That Lied to Heaven