The lighthouse never resumed its rotation.
It simply allowed darkness to exist.
That was worse.
No one slept.
Not truly.
They lay where exhaustion placed them—against cold walls, on broken benches, beside windows that showed an ocean that looked too still to be real.
Only three remained standing.
Lucia.
AX-01.
And the teddy.
The room felt smaller now, as if reality had quietly removed the space that was no longer needed.
Lucia's voice was dry.
"You said they can't go until we understand what changed in them."
The teddy nodded once—barely.
"Not changed," it said.
"Unlocked."
AX-01's chest singularity pulsed—slow, deliberate, like a second heartbeat learning patience.
The Division — Stated Clearly
Before anything else, Sylence forced himself upright.
"If they leave without knowing who goes where," he said, "this becomes chaos."
"Correct," the teddy replied.
The air above the floor rippled.
Six thin geometries formed—lines that were not light, not matter—permissions waiting to be accepted.
"Listen carefully," the teddy said.
"This is the last moment you will all understand the same reality."
Silence held.
Then—
It spoke each assignment as if naming laws.
Team One — Continuity
Sylence and Andy
A world that survives by never stopping.
A sleepless city.
Fragment Role: Continuity
Object to carry:
The Unwinding Thread — a spool of pale filament that never shortens no matter how much is pulled.
"Because survival there," the teddy said,
"means refusing endings."
Team Two — Execution
Andrew and Heaven
A battlefield that resets every dawn.
Fragment Role: Execution
Object to carry:
The Unbroken Blade — a weapon that cannot dull, but grows heavier with every use.
"Completion without mercy," the teddy said softly.
Team Three — Mercy
Sony and Peter
A world where death is optional, but memory is permanent.
Fragment Role: Mercy
Object to carry:
The White Veil — cloth that erases pain but never removes consequence.
Lucia whispered, "That's cruel."
"Yes," the teddy replied. "Mercy usually is."
Team Four — Collapse
Julia and Kevin
A reality where gods are loved until they fracture.
Fragment Role: Collapse
Object to carry:
The Hollow Crown — authority with nothing inside it.
"Power that survives only through belief," the teddy said.
Team Five — Refusal
Joseph and Cypher
A world that rejects permanence.
Fragment Role: Refusal
Object to carry:
The Broken Compass — always pointing toward what does not exist.
Team Six — Choice
Aegis—
No.
Sylence flinched.
The name corrected itself in his mind like a wound reopening.
Olethea.
Olethea alone.
An unfinished world.
Fragment Role: Choice
Object to carry:
The Empty Key — a key with no teeth, meant for locks that have not been made yet.
Lucia looked around slowly.
"That's six."
The teddy nodded.
"And the seventh remains here."
The Ones Who Stay
Lucia felt it before she spoke.
"Witness."
"Yes."
She swallowed.
"So… we guard the one already anchored here."
AX-01's singularity darkened—absorbing light instead of reflecting it.
"Affirmative," it said.
"Local fragment stability required."
The teddy added quietly:
"If the witness falls, the others will never remember why they began."
Before Departure — The Cave
"You cannot send them blind," Lucia said.
"They don't know what the singularity gave them."
AX-01 turned its head.
"Correction: abilities are present. Interpretation missing."
The teddy pointed toward the stairwell beneath the lighthouse.
"The cave was never storage," it said.
"It was a calibration chamber."
They descended.
Each step felt older than the lighthouse itself.
The air below was not cold—
It was unused.
At the bottom, the walls opened into a hollow carved from black stone that drank the beam from AX-01's chest.
Symbols—not written—remembered—covered the floor.
The singularity reacted immediately.
A low, impossible tone filled the chamber.
Not heard.
Felt behind the ribs.
The Powers Revealed
The teddy spoke:
"The singularity did not give them strength."
"It gave them alignment."
One by one, faint echoes of the departed team members flickered in the air—afterimages of their new states.
Sylence —
Can sense structural flaws in any system—physical, social, or conceptual.
Andy —
Can slow local time perception within a small radius.
Andrew —
Can force actions to complete once begun.
Heaven —
Can manifest kinetic force as wings of pressure.
Sony —
Can absorb emotional pain into himself.
Peter —
Can translate any signal—language, code, intention.
Julia —
Can amplify belief into temporary reality.
Kevin —
Can destabilize authority structures.
Joseph —
Can negate bindings—contracts, laws, restraints.
Cypher —
Can rewrite patterns in machines or logic systems.
Olethea —
Can choose between mutually impossible outcomes.
Lucia exhaled slowly.
"These aren't powers," she whispered.
"They're… permissions."
The teddy smiled.
"Yes."
The Ritual
At the center of the cave lay a circular depression.
Exactly the size of AX-01's chest core.
AX-01 stepped forward.
Without hesitation.
It opened its chest.
The singularity was no longer a sphere.
It was a depth.
The teddy climbed down from Lucia's arms and placed itself at the circle's edge.
"Begin synchronization," AX-01 said.
Its voice was softer than ever before.
The singularity expanded—
Not outward—
Through.
Six lines of impossible geometry shot upward through stone, lighthouse, sky.
Each line connected to a different sky that did not belong to this world.
Far away—
Six teams felt the ground beneath them become negotiable.
Lucia grabbed the teddy.
"What happens to them now?"
"They don't travel," the teddy said.
"They become acceptable."
One by one—
The lines vanished.
The cave fell silent.
The pressure lifted.
The world sealed.
After
No echoes.
No afterimages.
No distant presence.
Just three beings left in a chamber that suddenly felt too large.
Lucia.
The teddy.
AX-01.
Lucia's voice trembled.
"…Are they gone?"
AX-01 closed its chest.
The unknown metal reshaped, seamless.
"Negative," it said.
"Status: distributed across compatible realities."
The teddy looked toward the tunnel above.
"For the first time," it said quietly,
"Septet's fragments are being approached by something they did not predict."
Lucia hugged herself.
"And what do we do now?"
The lighthouse above finally tried to rotate again—
It moved one inch—
Then stopped.
AX-01's singularity pulsed once.
Slow.
Patient.
"Now," it said,
"We guard the memory of why this began."
The teddy added, almost gently:
"Because when they return…"
A long pause.
"…they won't be the same people who left."
And deep beneath the floor—
Where the Witness fragment slept—
Something ancient shifted,
as if recognizing
that the hunt had truly started.
The two other names that fainted were Null-?
And MN-07 gone on a mission to uncover truths about something that connects everything
It was merely are sign that was changed after the nulls name but it uncovered something that was not expected by the world and so it was from other world