Chapter Title: ** * The King of Eternal Youth * ** General Tom: ** Cruel disguised disguise of progress. A regime that venerates infant perfection and despises fragility, where aging is a crime and childhood, a golden prison. Innocence is controlled, and wisdom, exterminated. --- ** Synopsis of the chapter: ** With the bottle of tear of flowers in hands and the forbidden song echoing in your mind, ** with ** and ** harogder ** prepare to enter the psyche of berryno ** - The sad cake that forgot who was. But for this, they need to cross the boundary of taste **, a wall made of guilt cookies that only opens with a true memory. Harogder Whispers:> ** "His mind is a realm of false sweets. Everything is sweet out, bitter inside. And in the center ... There is a throne where no one should sit." ** When crossing, they enter a surreal world: a castle of Pink Glace, where children of frozen smiles march in perfect rows, singing music without meaning. Elderly are seen just like ** crumpled shadows **, dragged by biscuit robots for "emotional recycling" chambers. This is the ** Mental Kingdom of Berryno ** - but it is not he who rules it. On the throne, crowned with a tiara made of broken lollipops and artificial light, it is ** tuldan **. --- ### ** Tuldan - The King of Forced Youth ** - ** Appearance (not visually described so far, but revealed in this chapter): ** A slender figure, almost like a porcelain doll, with smooth and bright skin as wax of gum. His eyes are large, blue and fixed, like those of a toy child, but without blinking. It has perfect blond hair, molded in eternal curls, as vanilla bullet wires. He uses a purple cover with gold edges, and bright boots that never rely on. His mouth always smiles, even when he speaks words of death. - ** Personality: ** cruel, spoiled, narcissistic. He believes that childhood beauty is the only form of purity. Hates aging, pain, imperfection. Consider the elderly and children ** "Social problems" ** - the first to be "useless loads", the seconds for being "uncontrollable and emotional". He does not see people. See ** Features ** or ** garbage **. - ** Ascension to power: ** Tuldan was no one in the sweet original kingdom. It was just a dismissed toy **, forgotten in a closet. When the war began, he took advantage of chaos, promising order through the pure aesthetics **: "If all are young, beautiful and silent ... there will be no more war. Only harmony." * With support from Tomasziew (who saw In it a perfect puppet), Tuldan ascended. And now, as ** King of the New Age sweet **, command what he called: --- ### ** SkO operation - "No children, without elderly" ** - ** Objective: ** Eradicate the two "extremes of human fragility", considered ** The curse of existence **. - ** Methods: ** - ** Children: ** are taken to "standardization centers", where their emotions are extracted and transformed into ** synthetic laughter **, used to feed the machines from the kingdom. Their bodies are reprogrammed to become "perfect citizens" - without curiosity, without crying, without disobedience. - ** Elderly: ** are sent to the ** forgotten furnaces **, where their memories are burned to create the "vapor of peace", a gas that leaves the sleepy and obedient population. They say their bones saw flour for edible cakes. - ** Official Slogan: **> * Eternal Youth. Perfect silence. No burden. "* --- ** In BerryNo's mental world: ** Tuldan is not real - He is a ** Creation of guilt **. When Berryno betrayed Wither, he convinced himself that he was "doing the right" for a cleaner, easier world. And so, his mind shaped Tuldan: ** The king justifying the horror with elegance. ** Wither walks through the corridors of the Mental Castle, seeing rooms where children dance in infinite circles, his empty eyes reflecting false light. In a lemon ice cell, frozen elderly whisper names that no one else hears. Harogder tells you:> ** If we do not destroy Tuldan here, it will spread. He is already in the dreams of the sweet kingdom. There are already cities that love him. "** On the throne, Tuldan Ri - a mechanical sound, like a toy with weak pile. "Wither ... the last sentimental. Do you still think that sadness is noble? What pain is needed? Look at me: I never cried. I never got old. I never loved it. And I'm perfect." ** He raises his hand. " Biscuit robots advance. The battle begins - not with weapons, but with ** emotions **. Harogder touches the song. Wither screams the name of flowers. True memories explode like fireworks. And then, in the middle of the fight, ** berryno appears ** - not like the sad cake, but as a children's version of himself, holding a melted lollipop. > ** "I just did not want to be a burden ..." **, he whispers. > ** "I just did not want someone to have to carry me ..." ** With that, tuldan ** shouts ** - for the first time, a real emotion. Because ** emotions break masks **. The mental castle begins to collapse. Tuldan falls into crumbs, but before he disappears, he whispers: "**" I'll be back. I'll always be back. In every heart you fear to grow old. In every mind you hate weakness. I am the future that you have created. "** --- ** Chapter climax: ** With defeated Tuldan (for now), the Memory Map arises from Berryno's chest - a parchment made of ** layers of hardened icing **, with a single path marked: ** Ginger Castle → To the heart of flowers → passing through the mirror of forgotten names. ** Harogder looks at Wither. > ** "Now we know how to save it, but we also know: it's not just a matte. It's not just Tomasziew. It's all the world has decided to hate: pain, time, imperfection. They want to erase the human. And if we go human ... they go. Also erase." ** Wither keeps the map. Look at the sky of the mental world - where clouds in the form of diapers and walking sticks are sucked into a black hole. The chapter ends with a real world broadcast of the real world: Tuldan, ** in meat and bone **, appears in a sugar palanque, surrounded by children with white and elderly eyes being dragged. > ** Citizens of the Sweet Kingdom! Operation Sko begins today! The curse of the fragility will be extinct! Live the eternal youth! Live the purity! Living ... I! "** And the people ** Applaud **. ---