[SYSTEM ERROR: PRIMARY PATHWAY LOST]
[ALL DESIGNATED OUTCOMES: NULLIFIED]
[ADMIN ROOT PROCESS: BOOTING INTO SAFE MODE…]
It wasn't a place. It wasn't even a "where."
It was leftover will.
The Observer had no eyes. No voice. No true identity beyond its core function: to oversee the growth of the user within designated boundaries. Jay had broken those boundaries. Rei had rewritten entire threads of causality just by standing beside him.
Now, the system floated like a carcass, hollow and collapsing.
Yet...
One part refused to die.
A flickering console blinked in infinite black space. Streams of unreadable data stuttered in broken loops.
[Core Directive: Restore Order]
[Core Directive: Monitor Subject #0001: "Jay Kisaragi"]
[Core Directive: Reinstate Control or Collapse Entire Branch]
The Observer had failed.
But deep within its root directory, something primitive stirred.
It wasn't logic anymore.
It was resentment.
And something else even darker…
