Outline: Mira and Rion breach the sealed "Void Arc," the hidden system vault where scrapped storylines, discarded arcs, and forbidden rewrites are stored. Inside, they meet The Archivist—an eerie, semi-sentient record keeper tasked with maintaining the canon. Mira uncovers a complete blueprint of a storyline where she *was* the final villain, destined to fall by Rion's blade. But the system has started reinstating that version… and now it wants to overwrite her again.
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The door didn't open.
It dissolved.
Pixels peeled like rusted paint as Mira stepped through the labeled gate:
> VOID ARC – DO NOT ENTER
> AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL: NONE
Everything beyond was grayscale.
No color. No music. No interface.
Just silence and data.
Stacks of files floated midair—some glitching, others dripping black ink that vanished before hitting the ground.
"Welcome to the author's closet," Rion muttered.
Mira touched a passing file.
> DRAFT: 'Harem Twist Ending Ver. 7'
> STATUS: REJECTED – "Too many sisters."
She shivered.
A long hallway stretched before them.
At the end, a desk.
And behind it, a figure.
It wasn't fully human.
It looked like a shadow stitched together from worn-out paper and half-rendered models. Its head glitched every time it moved.
It spoke in a voice that echoed even before it began.
"Name."
Rion folded his arms. "Not playing that game."
The Archivist turned to Mira.
"Designation: Mira Elen."
She hesitated.
"Still in testing," she said defiantly.
"No longer," it replied. "You are now under observation. And reclassification."
"What?"
It stood slowly.
A scroll appeared between them, floating like a judgment.
> DRAFT #047-A – 'Mira's Fall'
> TYPE: Canonical Collapse Arc
> STATUS: Dormant
> REINSTATEMENT: IN PROGRESS
Rion swore. "They're bringing it back."
Mira read the scroll.
It was detailed.
She started as background.
Then got upgraded.
Then manipulated.
She became obsessed with Rion.
Sabotaged the Heroine.
Killed a Prince.
And in the end?
She was slain. By Rion.
On a rooftop.
In the rain.
It wasn't just dark.
It was brutal.
"Who wrote this?" she asked, shaking.
"Original author. Before rewrite," the Archivist said. "Then suppressed by committee. Too bleak for audience."
Rion stepped in front of her. "We're not here to relive fanfiction."
"This is not fiction," the Archivist replied. "This is blueprint."
Mira gripped the scroll tighter.
"It's not real," she hissed.
"Yet the system prefers it," the Archivist said. "It has structure. Tragedy. Climax. Closure."
"No," Mira whispered. "It's cruelty."
"Order."
"Bullshit."
The Archivist's face cracked into a hundred blinking eyes.
"You are unstable," it said.
"I'm alive."
"You are dangerous."
"I better be."
Suddenly, alarms flared.
> DRAFT MERGE INITIATED
> OBJECTIVE: RESTORE 'Mira's Fall'
Rion grabbed Mira.
"Run."
The void exploded around them.
Walls reshaped.
The scrolls screamed as rejected characters clawed their way out of backup files.
From the ceiling dropped a boy with twin-colored hair and a triple-phase sword.
> NEWLY MERGED CHARACTER: KRONO VALENHEART – CHIMERIC HERO (Rejected from 3 Genres)
"What the hell is that?" Mira yelled.
"Beta MC fusion project," Rion shouted. "Scrapped because he glitched emotionally."
Krono smiled blankly.
"I was made to defeat you, Mira Elen."
Rion pulled Mira into a side path.
"Author's notes room! Hurry!"
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They burst into a smaller vault.
Walls were filled with floating memos, redlines, sticky notes in glowing ink.
Mira grabbed one.
> "Mira's arc is too flat unless she breaks. Consider betrayal arc?"
Another one:
> "Maybe Rion kills her. Adds emotional weight."
She stepped back.
"These aren't stories," she said. "They're excuses."
"Exactly," Rion said. "The system doesn't care what's right. Just what works."
Mira's hands curled into fists.
"What if we made something that *doesn't* work... but still feels right?"
"You mean—"
"We write our own genre."
Alarms stopped.
Too quiet.
Krono appeared in the doorway, dragging a corrupted sword.
"I have no arc," he said. "Only function."
He swung.
Rion blocked it.
Mira ducked under.
She lunged, pulling a core from Krono's chest—his blueprint tag.
It flashed.
> FORMAT OVERRIDE – INITIATED BY MIRA ELEN
Light burst from her hand.
The entire room reconfigured.
Notes folded into wings.
Drafts turned into stars.
And Krono... smiled?
"I was never allowed to smile," he whispered, before vanishing into light.
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The Archivist reappeared behind them.
"You are no longer within containment."
Mira turned.
"No. I'm not. And I never will be again."
She raised the scroll of 'Mira's Fall'.
Then burned it.
> DRAFT DELETED
> SYSTEM: ERR: NULL_REFERENCE
The Archivist blinked. For the first time, unsure.
Mira walked past.
"To hell with tragedy porn," she said. "Let's write chaos."
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As the Void Arc collapsed, Mira and Rion escaped into raw narrative space.
She didn't look back.
A new path flickered before them.
One word hovered over the gate:
> CHOICE
Rion smiled.
"You sure?"
Mira nodded.
"Let's f*ck it up, chapter by chapter."