1. False Stillness
New York, in this world, was experiencing its calmest days in years. The sky was clear, gravity so perfectly stable that atomic clocks had not registered a single error in a billionth of a second. For Lina, this "physical peace" was the legacy Jin had left behind before ascending to his cosmic throne.
She had founded the Zero Institute for Advanced Studies atop the ruins of Arcadia's old laboratories, transforming the place from a digital prison into a beacon of science.
Lina sat in her glass-walled office overlooking Manhattan, gazing at a bright star pulsing in the Orion constellation in optical Morse code:
[ GENE… STABLE ]
That pulse was her only reassurance—the tangible proof that her friend, now woven into the fabric of the universe itself, was still there, guarding the laws of matter from collapse.
2. The First Anomaly
Suddenly, the star went out.
It wasn't a gradual dimming, but a total disappearance—as if someone had switched off a lamp in her room. Within seconds, the laboratory screens began screaming warnings Lina had never seen before. Quantum sensors were recording impossible readings.
"Warning: Dark matter mass surrounding the solar system has decreased by 0.004%."
In physics, mass does not evaporate. Matter is neither created nor destroyed. If mass on this scale vanished from this universe, it meant only one terrifying thing:
There was a hole in the fabric of reality, siphoning existence into somewhere else.
3. Double Vision and Dimensional Interference
As Lina rushed toward the main control panel, she froze.
She glanced at the black screen of her computer and saw her reflection… but it wasn't the face she knew.
It was another Lina—wearing torn, filthy clothes, her eyes sunken and filled with indescribable terror. Behind her was not a pristine, high-tech laboratory, but a narrow metal cell, its rusted walls stamped with the old Arcadia logo—upgraded, bearing beneath it the words:
"The Absolute Owner of Reality."
The other Lina didn't speak. Instead, she raised a trembling hand and traced a Zero on the glass from the other side, violently slashed through with a thick red line—as if warning of Jin's erasure.
Then the image vanished as the screen exploded, shards of glass flying across the room.
4. A Message from "Nothingness"
At that moment, the laboratory lighting shifted from calm blue to toxic violet—a color that, in physics, signified energy levels approaching the destruction of atomic bonds.
An old paper printer in the corner of the room began operating on its own, despite not being connected to any power source.
Only one sheet emerged. It didn't contain code, but a distorted relativistic equation:
E=mc2+ΔPE = mc^2 + \Delta PE=mc2+ΔP
Where ΔP\Delta PΔP denoted "Change in Probabilities."
At the bottom of the page was a single sentence, written in a sharp, unmistakable handwriting that both Jin and Lina knew all too well—the script of Kasparian, believed to have burned away in Dimension Zero:
"In my world, Lina, constants are not sacred.I am not destroying matter—I am merely redirecting its entitlement."
5. The Silent Scream of the Cosmos
Without warning, Lina felt an immense pressure crush her ears, as if atmospheric pressure had multiplied a hundredfold in a single instant. Gravity inside the room began to fluctuate—pens and books floated toward the ceiling, then slammed down violently, shattering desks.
Lina looked up through the laboratory window, and her heart stopped.
The sky over New York was no longer blue.
A massive rupture had opened—an abyss-black fissure stretching across the horizon. Threads of white light—remnants of devoured stars—were being dragged into it.
This was no natural black hole.
It was a Probability Pump.
Lina grasped the bitter truth: Kasparian had found a path in another world, and he was now milking this universe of its energy and mass to fuel his empire on the other side.
6. The Call from the Throne
Amid the chaos, Lina heard a voice—not a human one. A voice that came from within her bones, from the very atoms of her body.
It was broken, strained beyond measure.
"Lina… run… the laws… are no longer… under… my control…"
It was Jin.
The Lord of Physics was fighting with all his cosmic might to seal the rupture, but it was like trying to hold back a collapsing dam with bare fingers. The force opposing him wasn't destructive—it was counter-cosmic programming, attempting to nullify his existence as a constant.
Lina didn't hesitate.
She ran toward the institute's hidden basement, where the prototype Dimensional Synchronization Engine was stored—designed by Jin before his ascension as a last-resort contingency.
She knew that remaining in this world meant slow erasure with every disappearing star. The only way to save Jin—and her reality—was to dive into the rabbit hole and confront Kasparian on his new battlefield.
She opened the engine's capsule. As the building above her began disintegrating into elementary particles, Lina entered the coordinates of the double vision she had seen on the screen.
She inhaled air thick with ozone and electricity and pressed the activation switch, whispering:
"You held on for me for so long, Jin…Now it's my turn to be the constant."
With a white flash followed by absolute darkness, Lina vanished from this reality—leaving behind a universe beginning to collapse under the weight of the Slashed Zero