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Her lips moved. Kaito’s software tried to lip-read.

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. Rei Saijo - Sad Story Under War.avi.004 Algebra Win32 Oxidad

He opened the laptop again. Started typing a recovery script. Her lips moved

Kaito found it on the deepest layer of an old data haven—a server stack buried in the concrete ribs of a drowned coastal city. The year was 2041, but the war in the file was older. The war that had turned Rei Saijo from a child piano prodigy into a ghost. Back then

Outside the data haven, the rain began to fall on the drowned city. Kaito pressed his palms against the laptop’s lid. He could still see her—Rei Saijo, seventeen, bandaged fingers, playing Chopin in a bunker that no longer existed.

For Rei. For Jun. For the bird Mina carved into concrete.

But Kaito whispered to the dark: Not everything.