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Chapter 6 - glitched

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Chapter 8 – Glitches and Confrontations

Nail didn't waste time.

The very next morning, he drove straight to Vic Firth's house.

Vic opened the door with a calm smile, but the air between them was far from friendly.

"What exactly were you doing parked outside my house yesterday?" Nail demanded, his voice low but sharp.

Vic raised an eyebrow, pretending not to understand. "I was just… in the area."

"Cut the act," Nail snapped. "You think I don't know when someone's watching my family?"

The conversation quickly grew tense. Vic tried to steer it into harmless territory, but Nail's suspicion cut through every excuse. They parted with no resolution—only a silent, mutual understanding that this wasn't over.

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A few days later at school, Wong Lu's class was unusually quiet. The teacher walked down the aisles, collecting everyone's homework from the past week. When she reached Wong Lu's desk, she paused.

"Where's your assignment?" she asked.

Wong Lu blinked. "Which assignment is that?"

"The one I gave the whole class last Friday," she said, holding out her hand.

But in that moment—reality… glitched.

His mind didn't try to remember the work. Instead, his thoughts looped into something stranger.

What is… an assignment?

It wasn't confusion—it was as if the concept itself was foreign to him.

Before the teacher could press further, Saki and Gami slid a paper onto his desk. "Here's Wong Lu's work," Saki said quickly. They had done it for him in advance, just in case.

The teacher's face twitched in brief confusion, glancing at one of the answers. "Is… a hectagon… a person?" she muttered under her breath, as though reality itself was struggling to make sense of what she saw.

Wong Lu stayed quiet, but deep down, he understood exactly what his sisters had done for him.

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When they returned home, the warm smell of dinner greeted them from the kitchen. Saki and Gami wasted no time telling Elizabeth about the strange glitch at school while Wong Lu stood silently beside them.

They were mid-story when the front door opened. Nail stepped in, his face heavy with exhaustion—and something else.

Elizabeth studied him for a moment, then waited until after dinner to ask, "What happened today?"

Nail sat back in his chair, eyes distant. "Nothing you need to worry about… yet," he said quietly.

But the tone in his voice said otherwise.

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