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**Scene 1: The Incident – Tokyo, Shibuya Crossing**
It began with static in the sky.
On a humid afternoon in Tokyo's most crowded district, pedestrians shuffled across Shibuya Crossing like synchronized waves. Giant LED billboards flashed ads above while horns and chatter mixed into the rhythm of city life. But then — the sky blinked.
Once.
Twice.
Like a glitched video.
Tourists gasped. Locals looked up. Cameras twitched.
Then came the **pulse** — not a thunderclap, but a vibration in the air that made bones ache.
A violet bolt of **lightning** erupted from a cloudless sky, striking the center of the intersection.
Screams.
The flash faded — revealing something that shouldn't exist.
A **creature** stood where the bolt hit. Glitching. Humming. Semi-transparent like broken glass. Its name flickered above its head like a system prompt:
> \[Lv. 78 — Null Wraith]
> \[CLASS: Data-Reaper]
> \[TARGET: SYNC VARIANCE INITIATOR: UNKNOWN]
Civilians fled.
Phones recorded.
And the Null Wraith began to move.
It didn't run or stomp — it *phased*. Through cars. Through people.
Those it touched didn't bleed. They *froze*. Locked in mid-motion, eyes staring, mouths mid-scream, their minds caught in something unseen.
Until they collapsed, twitching, foaming.
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**Scene 2: Officer Saito**
Officer Daichi Saito was four blocks away when the emergency call pinged his radio. Something about a riot. Possibly a tech malfunction. He was the closest.
When he arrived, he didn't see a riot. He saw the Wraith.
> "What the hell... is that?"
He raised his weapon. Fired.
Nothing.
The bullets went through.
Until it turned toward him.
For a moment, he saw into it — layers of broken code, human eyes stitched into its skin, and a symbol: **an eye with a keyhole**.
The Wraith lunged.
Saito rolled, aimed at what looked like its core — and fired again.
This time, it reacted.
The shot pierced its glitching chest. The Wraith screamed — without sound — and disintegrated into floating shards of data.
Saito fell to his knees.
> \[SYSTEM ERROR — LIVE CROSSOVER DETECTED]
> \[Boundary Breach: Confirmed]
> \[CLASS ACQUIRED: Boundary Breaker]
> \[Stat: World Perception Initialized]
A transparent screen blinked before his eyes — then vanished.
He looked at his shaking hands.
> "No one... can know."
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**Scene 3: Game HQ – Panic Layer**
Deep within EvoCore's server operations bunker, alarms screamed.
A single blinking tag on the wall-sized map:
> \[LIVE ENTITY BREACH — LOCATION: JAPAN, LAYER 0]
> "One of the Wraiths got out," an engineer muttered, pale.
> "That shouldn't be possible!"
> "The Nihilos class hasn't reached activation tier..."
Dario watched the footage calmly. Rewind. Pause. Zoom on Saito's eyes.
> "It doesn't matter. We're past the breach phase now."
One of the leads clenched his fist.
> "We kill Reven. Now. Burn the player. Shut down the sync."
> "No," Dario said coldly. "He's still syncing. Too early. We don't know which side he'll land on yet."
> "And if we wait?"
Dario turned.
> "Then we pray."
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**Scene 4: School – Whispers of a God Killer**
Reven sat in the back row again. Same uniform. Same broken zipper on his backpack. But today, school wasn't the same.
Students whispered around him.
> "You saw the footage, right?"
> "That monster looked like a boss from EvoCore."
> "That cop... he *killed* it. Just like that."
Reven didn't join. He stared at his desk, fingers twitching. Something in him felt... distant.
The way the kids described the creature — its eyes, its movement —
He'd seen it. Not in real life.
In his dream.
**Or was it the game?**
His phone vibrated.
> \[NIHILOS SYNC: 21.33%]
> \[Containment Status: UNKNOWN]
> \[You are not alone anymore.]
He shivered.
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**Scene 5: Reven's Room – Code in the Mirror**
Reven stared at himself in the bathroom mirror. Then blinked.
For a split-second, his reflection showed a glitch — his skin pixelated, eyes glowing blue.
He punched the sink.
Back in his room, the unplugged VR headset buzzed on its own.
A voice echoed through the static:
> "Clean the breach... or become it."
His headset lit up.
> \[NIHILOS CLASS NODE: ACTIVATED]
> \[MISSION RECEIVED: Patch Layer-0 Breach Zone]
> \[TIME LIMIT: 48 HOURS]
> \[FAILURE = SYSTEM COLLAPSE]
> "You've got to be kidding me."
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**Scene 6: Across the World – Breaches Multiply**
In Delhi, a child stared at a garbage pile where a faintly glowing green blob pulsed. It looked like slime from a game. Then it blinked.
In São Paulo, a cat was seen tearing through metal trash bins with metallic claws.
In Seoul, a gamer dropped dead mid-stream. His eyes never closed.
The world was changing.
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**Scene 7: Logging Back In**
Reven placed the headset over his eyes. It vibrated.
> \[Warning: The game is no longer stable.]
> \[Login anyway?]
> "Yeah. Why stop now?"
The world of EvoCore loaded.
But it was... wrong.
NPCs turned away from him. The sky was dim. Buildings were flickering.
His UI showed one new alert:
> \[You are now being hunted by the Observers.]
> \[Target Class: Nullbyte.]
He opened his system menu — and for the first time, he saw the name.
> \[Class: Nihilos]
And below it:
> \[Sub-Classification: System Ender]
He heard the voice again.
> "You are not a player anymore."
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– To be continued
"And far beyond the corrupted zone, something else had begun watching…"