“You’re dying,” he told Gutenberg, placing a hand on its warm aluminum lid. “But I can’t afford a new one.”

The interface was clean—almost eerily so. No dancing paperclips, no flashing upgrade buttons. Just a calm, dark-gray window with four modules: System Junk, Duplicate Finder, Privacy Cleaner, and Large Files.

Leo opened the same 4K video project. Dragged the timeline. Exported.

The progress bar didn’t stutter. It glided forward like a knife through butter. Fifty-eight seconds later, the results appeared, and Leo’s jaw unhinged.