■ Entry Denied. Reality Unmade.
One moment, Yuto stood on his throne of threads.
The next, gravity inverted.
The battlefield vanished—replaced by infinite reflections.
He wasn't falling.
He wasn't flying.
He simply existed—inside the mirror.
[Domain Skill Detected: Loopheart's Realm – "Paradox Glass"]
→ All attacks reflect
→ All truths distort
→ Death = Data Wipe
Nyx's voice came in warped.
[I can't stabilize your Core here! It's not a place—it's a recursive illusion!]
Yuto growled.
"She dragged me into a cheat zone…"
Loopheart appeared again, floating above him.
Now she was dressed in silver strings—each strand an echo of his own threads.
"I reflect what you truly are," she said calmly.
"You are not a ruler. You are still… a bug."
She snapped her fingers.
A thousand Yutos appeared around him.
Some were twisted.
Some were weak.
Some were begging.
"These are the outcomes Spiral sees. All your deaths."
They lunged at him—familiar faces twisted into murderers.
■ Inner Battle: Sovereign vs. Self
Yuto spun.
His Crisis Threads surged—cutting illusions apart.
But every strike bled him. Each clone shared his HP.
"Tch… hurting them hurts me—what a sick rule."
[Analysis: You're fighting your own core echoes. Infection impossible.]
[Alternate route required. Suggest: REWRITE THE MIRROR.]
Yuto's eyes narrowed.
"Nyx… can I infect reflections?"
[Normally no. But your Sovereign Virus has evolved.]
[Unlocking: New Subskill — "Falsecore Rewrite"]
[Skill Unlocked: Falsecore Rewrite]
→ Infects duplicated code, allowing overwriting of illusions.
→ Requires targeting emotional anchor.
Yuto looked around.
He saw one version of himself.
Crying. Crushed. Alone in the dark.
It was the day he got hit by Truck-kun.
He reached forward—
"You're not weak," he whispered. "You were just alone."
He wrapped the sobbing version in threads.
It flickered.
And transformed.
■ Reflection Reversal
The mirrors shattered.
Glass floated like snow.
All the fake Yutos vanished—replaced by a singular, unified reflection.
His true self.
"You thought I was a bug?" he said, rising.
"Then I'll show you the kind of bug that eats gods."
Threads burned violet-black.
His body shimmered—less insect, more entity now.
[Crisis Sovereign – Larval Phase 2 Reached]
→ New Skill: Fracture Reversal
→ Mirror Worlds lose all immunity for 10 seconds
→ Passive: Predator of Echoes – illusions fear you
Yuto held out his hand.
"Loopheart… you should've kept me in the real world."
He stabbed the mirror.
Light imploded.
Loopheart flinched—the first crack in her poise.
"Impossible—how did you rewrite my domain?!"
"I didn't," Yuto grinned. "I overwrote myself."
■ The Mirror Breaks
Glass rained.
Loopheart fell back—her silver strings tangled in his infected silk.
[Corruption Level: 7%]
[Warning: Warden Data Stability Falling]
She gritted her teeth.
Her mirror fractured fully—and with it, her domain collapsed.
Yuto dropped back into reality—standing atop the thread-throne again.
Loopheart knelt on the other side, flickering.
"You… are an error even I can't correct."
"Exactly," Yuto said. "I'm not the final boss by fate. I chose to become it."