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Chapter 26 - 26 – “The Girl Who Shouldn’t Exist Morning – New Ereborn Birds chirped. Grass swayed. But something felt... off. Lilith felt it first. The warmth in the air? It had a scripted rhythm. Like a melody she remembered from a system that no longer existed. > "This... isn't natural," she whispered. --- 🧒 Aira's Strange Behavior She sat in the garden—drawing in the dirt with a stick. Smiling. Humming. But as Rin passed her, she looked up and asked: > "Do you remember the white room?" He froze. > "What?" > "The one with the countdown clock. The one you died in." > "But you don't remember dying there... do you?" --- ⚠️ Reality Shift That night, a painting on the wall flickered. For 0.7 seconds—it showed something else: A silver spire A code halo A system console interface Lilith gasped. > "This place is supposed to be clean. No system. No threads. No memory hacks." > "Why is that here?" Then came the hum. A low, mechanical thrum beneath the floorboards. --- ⛓️ The Hidden Bunker Rin found it under the kitchen. A hatch sealed by bio-signature—his. > "I never built this." But it opened when he touched it. Downstairs, under concrete and stone, was something impossible: A terminal. Alive. Awake. Waiting. > [Welcome Back, Rootbreaker.] [Project: Paradox Memory Recovery – ACTIVE] > [Rebuilding Old World Echoes.] --- ⚠️ Aira's Condition 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞 Upstairs, Aira slept—tossing, sweating. Her fingers sparked with glitch-static. The flowers near her bed reversed growth. A butterfly froze in the air. Lilith stood beside her—scared. > "She's not a girl," she whispered. "She's a key." > "And someone left a door wide open." --- Ending Scene – A Message from the Past The terminal screen pulsed. A video loaded. Grainy. But Rin recognized the face: His own. A version of himself—dead-eyed, mechanical—stared into the screen. > "If you're seeing this... the rewrite failed." > "You didn't erase the system. You buried it." > "And she's the shovel."