> "He walks beneath the clouds… and even they whisper his name now."
— Ophis, very quietly watching it all unravel
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[Location: Dimensional Gap – The Infinite Sky]
Great Red, the Dragon of Dreams, soared through the ever-shifting void of unreality.
Eternal. Untouchable. Unfazed.
Until today.
A ripple passed through the Dimensional Gap.
Tiny.
Vague.
Annoyingly neutral.
Great Red… sneezed.
The void cracked for 0.0000001 seconds.
He paused mid-flight.
Sniffed.
Frowned.
> "...What the hell was that?"
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[Location: Kuoh Academy – School Roof, 2:22 p.m.]
MC looked up from his tea.
The clouds twitched.
The wind hiccupped.
The sun blinked.
MC (quietly):
> "Ah. He noticed.
Took him longer than Ophis."
He calmly adjusted his tie and poured more tea.
---
[Scene: Back in the Dimensional Gap]
Great Red hovered in place.
Something foreign danced along the edge of his awareness.
Not a threat. Not an enemy.
A placeholder.
A blank space that shouldn't be echoing.
> "Is that a mortal?"
He sniffed again.
Paused.
> "Why is he flavor-tagged with sarcasm?"
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[Scene: Ophis Appears]
Ophis emerged from the silence beside Great Red.
No movement. No sound.
Just presence.
> "He is not from this story.
But the story… now rotates around him."
Great Red:
> "That's impossible.
I'm the center."
Ophis (blinking):
> "Not anymore."
---
[Meanwhile: System Admin Room]
Sirens blared.
A pop-up appeared:
> ALERT: Tier-0 Entity Acknowledged the Blank One.
Adjusting narrative stability… failed.
Reboot not advised.
Panic? [Y/N]
System pressed Y. Twice.
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[System Notification – Global]
> "Great Red has sneezed.
Dimensional Border Flicker recorded.
MC has been marked as 'Story Adjacency Class S.'"
Kazuma (reading it):
> "What does that even mean?!"
Deadpool:
> "He's now technically the main character of the multiverse.
By accident."
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[Final Scene – Rooftop, Wind Calm]
MC closed his tea bottle.
Stood.
The air shimmered faintly.
Above him, for just a second, the sky looked at him.
He nodded once.
> "Good.
The dreamer has stirred."
He walked away.
Behind him, the clouds formed a faint outline of a dragon…
Bowing.
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End of Chapter 54: The Dream Notices the Blank