Location: Subterranean Data Vault – Sector 0 (Sealed Since Loop Zero)
Time: 3:13 AM
A faint hum echoed through the cavernous vault.
Once used to archive the very foundations of the loop system, the underground facility had remained sealed even after Kaen's revolution. It was presumed dead—buried beneath layers of concrete and time.
But tonight, something pulsed.
A single shard of corrupted code blinked back to life.
> SYSTEM RECOGNITION: [ERROR_000-TRY_01]
STATUS: AUTO-RECOVERY ENGAGED
PRIORITY DIRECTIVE: RESTORE ORIGINAL PARAMETERS
INITIATING RECONSTRUCTION…
Lights flickered.
A chamber door hissed open for the first time in a thousand years.
Something remembered.
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Location: Free District 3 – Kaen's Apartment
Time: 7:01 AM
Kaen awoke to a sunrise like any other.
