Xiu Zhen awoke gasping.
Not in a hospital. Not in a lab.
He lay naked, disoriented, in the middle of a glowing field — deep purple grass swaying under a starless sky. A void of electric hum coursed through his veins.
His hands twitched.
Delicate. Slender.
He looked down, eyes widening in horror — and awe.
"W-What…?"
Long, silky indigo hair spilled over his shoulders. His body was no longer the one he remembered — curvaceous, flawless, barely contained by crackling electro-energy. A familiar sword floated beside him — a blade of godlike design, humming with the same energy that had struck him.
A voice whispered from the void.
> "Eternity… is mine."
He had seen her before. The Raiden Shogun, from that game his little sister played obsessively.
Now, he had become her.
A crack of thunder echoed across the horizon. And when he looked up, the stars spun — forming a new constellation.