🕶️ Location: Sector Zero – Buried Chronos Archive
Time Access Key: Mira.
Two people moved through a decaying tunnel beneath Tokyo—an off-the-grid underchannel not even satellites could trace.
Mira led the way, expression unreadable.Behind her, Kentarō stayed silent, his fingers gripping Sarah's cracked memory crystal in his pocket.
"You sure about this?" Mira asked."Chronos doesn't store data here. It stores ends."
Kentarō nodded. "If he's the one resetting timelines…I need to face him."
🏢 Inside the Facility – The Pendulum Wing
A giant steel door stood ahead.Its surface was etched with world lines. Thousands. All ending in Xs. All crossed out.
At the center:
"Room Zero: Hoshikawa's Clock Room."
The moment Mira entered her access code, Kentarō felt time pull away from him—like the hallway was refusing to exist.
The doors opened.
🕰️ The Clock Room
Inside: no lights. No screens.
Just clocks.
Hundreds—no, thousands—of analog clocks hung across the walls, floor to ceiling.Each one ticked backward.Each one had a nameplate underneath.
Kentarō walked slowly past them:
Yūto Nakahara – Timeline 17: Stabilized, then erased.
Reika Minazuki – Timeline 51B: Anchor collapse.
Daichi – 4 Resets, 1 Break.
He stopped when he saw:
Sarah – Timeline 1365625.Ticking. Still active.Status: Overwritten but not resolved.
🎓 Professor Hoshikawa Appears
"Beautiful, aren't they?" came a voice from the shadows.
Professor Katsuro Hoshikawa stepped forward. His white lab coat now a long black overcoat. His eyes were grey like frost—emotionless.
"Each one of those clocks is a reality.Each second… a version of someone begging not to be forgotten."
Kentarō clenched his fists.
"You erased entire lives."
Hoshikawa smiled faintly. "I preserved peace."
"You rewrote love into numbers."
🔄 The Deal
Hoshikawa held out a strange timepiece—a singularity watch.
"You want a stable timeline where she doesn't disappear?You can have it. Just insert this."
"It'll remove every unstable thread: broken anchors, paradoxes, glitched memories."
Kentarō hesitated. "And what do I lose?"
"You lose every version of her who ever died for you.You only get to remember one."
🩶 Kentarō's Choice
Kentarō took the watch.
Held it in his palm.
Then looked back at Sarah's ticking clock on the wall.
He spoke, voice shaking.
"If love has to be clean, perfect, sanitized… then it isn't love."
"I'd rather remember her a thousand broken ways…Than forget the pain that made her real."
He crushed the singularity watch in his hand.
💥 Hoshikawa's Warning
The clocks began spinning violently.
Hoshikawa's voice darkened.
"You've chosen collapse."
"Then I hope you're strong enough to remember her when the whole world forgets."
The room around them twisted—reality trying to erase the defiance.
Mira grabbed Kentarō.
"We need to leave. Now."
🌌 Final Scene – Back at the Rooftop
Back above ground, stars returned to the sky. But the moon flickered strangely—like an old video stuttering.
Kentarō looked at Sarah's memory crystal.It glowed faintly again.
"He tried to make me forget you."
"And I still said no."