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A glitch. A fragment salvaged from a drone’s corrupted storage unit. The video skipped. Rei’s hands stopped playing. She turned toward the camera—toward Kaito —and for one frame, her eyes were not green. They were white. Completely white. Like a photograph bleaching in the sun.

IF (memory.exists(ReiSaijo)) THEN DELETE heart.exe CORRUPT all witnesses RETURN void END IF Kaito slammed the laptop shut. His hands were shaking. Not from fear. From recognition. Rei Saijo - Sad Story Under War.avi.004 Algebra Win32 Oxidad

He had been Jun’s older brother. Back then. Before he changed his name. Before he fled the war and told himself the past was a file you could delete. A glitch

The video stuttered to life. Grainy. Green-tinted night-vision. A concrete bunker somewhere in the no-man’s-land of the Second Korean Reunification Conflict. And there she was. Rei’s hands stopped playing

The timestamp read:

Except—the file kept playing.