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Leo’s blood chilled. “They” meant Kyoto. Nintendo’s internal security group—not lawyers, but engineers who treated reverse-engineering as a personal insult.

It had been a lure.

The phone screen was already lit. A new notification, not from Mira. From an unknown sender. The message contained a single line of text—the exact byte sequence of the first 16 bytes of his BIOS dump.

Below it: “We see you, Leo. The check-in was successful. Thank you for validating our new telemetry. Your location has been noted. Please do not turn off your console.”