[System Anomaly Logged]
Entity Detected: No Thread, No Mark, No Code Origin
Subject: "The Threadless One"
Location: Sector 0—Buried Trial
Classification: Undefined
Danger Level: Unknown
Potential Role: Gamebreaker / Null Origin / First Soul?
After Orion's recovery, we took a breath.
Half of one.
Then Zai picked up the signal.
"There's someone moving through Trial Zero," she said, eyes narrowing at the live scan. "But… they don't exist."
Trinity leaned forward. "Everyone exists on thread signature."
"Exactly," Zai replied. "This one doesn't. Not now. Not ever."
Sector 0 was a dead zone.
No player had entered it since the Graveyard's first trial fell apart. No enemies. No bosses. Just silence.
And now—footsteps.
We followed them.
What we found wasn't a threat.
It was a girl.
Younger than us. Pale. Barefoot. Hair silver-white and floating slightly like she lived between breath and data.
She stood in front of the broken gate where all Reapers were first summoned.
When I spoke, her eyes met mine.
"You're not from here," I said.
"Neither are you," she answered.
Her voice was calm.
But it echoed.
Not across the air.
Across memory.
[ENTITY CLASSIFIED: THE THREADLESS ONE]
Name: ???
Thread Status: N/A
System Origin: Pre-Graveyard Initialization
This player existed before the threads began.
Zai stepped forward. "That's impossible."
The girl blinked slowly. "So is surviving your own rewrite. And yet…"
She turned to me.
Eyes glowing with a flicker of familiarity.
"You've worn the Crown before, Sovereign."
"This isn't your first cycle."
"It's just the first time you've remembered."
Everything stopped.
Even the Graveyard held its breath.
"What are you?" I whispered.
"A question the system failed to answer."
She raised her hand—and the ground responded, not with fire or thread…
But void.
Not death.
Not deletion.
Origin.
She stepped toward the broken gate.
"If you want to win the Threadwar," she said, "you'll need to find the beginning."
"And I'm the only one who still remembers it."
Then she vanished—slipping between layers like gravity no longer applied.
Zai looked shaken. "That wasn't a player."
Trinity's voice was a whisper.
"That was the code before the code."
[NEW OBJECTIVE UNLOCKED: FIND THE FIRST THREAD]
Optional Quest: Unlock the forgotten truth of the Graveyard's origin.
Reward: Unknown. Risk: Total system rejection.
Tracking: The Threadless One
And somewhere in the Graveyard…
The Null-King paused.
Just for a moment.
Because even he didn't know where she came from.
And that meant…
The Sovereign wasn't the only variable left.