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Location: "Café Null."
It looks like an old, forgotten bookstore from the outside.
Inside: walls lined with mirrors that don't reflect properly, jazz music playing backwards, and customers who don't speak. They just… watch.
Aeyon enters first. Alone.
He's not sure if this place is real or constructed—but it doesn't matter. He's here for one reason:
To face the two most dangerous people in his life.
Reva, the mystery he can't crack.
Serik, the mind-ghost who might be the future version of what Aeyon was built to become.
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The Setup: A Game of 3 Lies
There's no coffee. No menus. Just a single table with three chairs and three cards.
> 🃏 Rule: Each person writes one lie on their card.
If you identify the other two lies, you control the next move.
If you fail… your memory resets for 24 hours.
> The cards pulse with Nulltech glyphs. Reva stares at hers. Serik doesn't even blink.
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Round One
Aeyon writes:
> "I have never been inside The Null Core." (Lie—he escaped from it.)
Reva writes:
> "I cannot feel love." (Aeyon suspects this is false.)
Serik writes:
> "I am not here to kill one of you." (Dead silence. That's the real test.)
Aeyon watches Serik's heartbeat through his wrist vein. A slight twitch when Reva looks at him.
Target identified. Serik has already chosen.
> "He's going to kill Reva."
But why?
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Psychological Clash: Dialogue Duel
Aeyon (to Serik): "You see feelings as flaws. That's why you'll lose. You calculate too fast. No patience."
Serik: "You feel too much. That's why you'll break. Eventually, you'll try to save her. And that's when we take you back."
Reva: "You're both wrong. This isn't a game of lies. It's a game of attachments. And I've already won."
She lifts her card. It's blank.
> "The truth is more dangerous than a lie."
Suddenly—Aeyon's memories flicker.
He sees flashes:
Himself being injected with something.
Reva crying over a body.
Serik standing with Dr. Halren.
A sealed door with the word: "PROTOTYPE: AE-01"
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The Twist: Aeyon's Awakening
Reva touches Aeyon's hand for the first time.
> "They didn't create you to destroy minds. They created you to replace them."
Serik's eyes narrow.
> "He wasn't supposed to wake up this fast."
Aeyon stands, slowly.
His voice is deeper—glitched.
> "You said I was built. Fine. But I was also trained—in silence, in shadows, and in pain."
> "You want control. But I want something more dangerous."
> "Freedom."
Suddenly, the room collapses like a house of mirrors.
They're no longer in the café.
They're inside Aeyon's mental fortress.
And for the first time—he's in full control.
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Action Sequence: Mind-Dual Arena
Aeyon creates a shifting battlefield.
The ground splits into moving panels.
Serik summons logic-based weapons—equations that explode into shrapnel.
Reva moves like an echo, warping time frames.
But Aeyon doesn't fight with force.
He rewrites.
Serik charges. Aeyon blinks—Serik forgets what he was doing.
Reva throws a mental blade. Aeyon catches it—because he saw it three seconds before she threw it.
> "I'm not just manipulating minds," Aeyon whispers.
"I'm editing time itself—inside thought."
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Final Scene: Serik's Defeat
Aeyon pins Serik in a memory loop—one where Serik watches himself as a child… being experimented on by The Null.
Over and over.
His will breaks.
> "You… you're the true Alpha," he whispers. "Not a prototype. You're… the rewrite."
Aeyon leans close.
> "Then why do I still feel fear?"
"Because she makes me human. And that makes me stronger than all of you."
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Chapter End:
Reva walks beside Aeyon. Silent.
She looks at him differently now. Not as an opponent.
But as something else.
> "You're changing," she says.
"So are you," he replies. "That's why they fear us."
> Behind them, Serik disappears—his mind shattered but alive. He wasn't here to kill. He was here to warn Aeyon.
> And far away, in a dark chamber, Dr. Halren watches it all.
> "Let the Alpha evolve. Let him think he's free. When he finds the final door, we erase it all."
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To be continued...