The world turns red.
Flashes of light tore through the Core Room, breaking code like glass. The air cracked with static, and every breath Seo Jin took felt too strong, too real. The system's voice screamed through the chaos:
> [Containment failure!]
[Host synchronization exceeds safe limit!]
[Relocating data— emergency escape protocol initiated!]
"Li Ran!" Seo Jin shouted, reaching out through the blinding light.
He caught a hand — warm, strong — and refused to let go.
The fox's voice came through the distortion, barely audible. "It's rewriting your coordinates! It's sending you—!"
And then the world shattered.
---
Silence.
A faint hum.
A soft breeze.
And the smell — real air, mixed with something he hadn't felt in ages.
Seo Jin gasped as his eyes fluttered open. He wasn't in the Core Room anymore. He was lying on something soft — his bed. His real bed.
