■ Execution Fragment Alpha: "Loopling"
Name: Dilo
Age: Unknown
Reincarnation Origin: Earth
Failure Cause: Temporal Overload
Abilities:
– Premonition Ping (predicts enemy actions)
– Loop Lash (uses past versions of self in combat)
– Time Echo (heals by rewinding injuries)
The arena was silent.
White tiles underfoot. Empty space above.
And in the center stood a boy, maybe ten years old, wearing a cracked VR headset and a school uniform stained with clock marks.
He looked at Yuto and smiled softly.
"You'll move left first," he said.
"Then dodge upward. Then thread dash."
Yuto did exactly that.
It wasn't a choice—it was like the moves were burned into his muscle memory.
"Told you," the boy whispered.
"I've seen you lose… 84,115 times."
Nyx buzzed in Yuto's mind, suppressed but not silent.
[Warning: Temporal field in effect. Your current body is caught in a recursive thread prediction.]
[He's not reading your mind. He's watching every failed outcome and stitching them together.]
Yuto clicked his tongue.
"So I'm fighting my own failures in advance."
"Neat. Let's flip the script."
He paused.
Didn't attack.
Didn't dodge.
He just… stood.
And the Loopling tilted his head, surprised.
"That… wasn't in the loop."
"You're not supposed to stand still here."
■ Skill Triggered: [Threadbreak – Manual Override]
Halts predictive threading for 2.5 seconds
Costs 30% mental integrity
Yuto's thread shimmered, snapped once, and rewove itself manually.
He lunged forward, free of the loop for a breath—
Struck the child square in the chest.
But the Loopling didn't fall. He rewound.
Like a video scrubbed backward, time rewound the hit, and the boy stood again—untouched.
"Not enough," he whispered.
"You don't understand what it means to be stuck."
Suddenly, the battlefield flickered.
Yuto was back at the start of the fight.
His hands. His position. The same.
"He reset the phase," Nyx warned.
"This is his purgatory—and he's dragging you into it."
Yuto smiled.
"If we're looping… then I just have to become the variable."
He did something insane.
Instead of attacking—he stabbed himself.
Loopling gasped. Time stuttered.
"W-what?!"
Yuto's blood rewrote the arena code—
Chaos introduced. Loop corrupted.
■ Passive Skill Awakened: [Bug-Type Trait – Recursive Chaos Node]
Effect: Presence disrupts stable temporal threads
Result: Loopling's abilities destabilizing
Loopling began to glitch—his voice doubled, his predictions stuttering.
"Y-you weren't—supposed to—why did you—?"
Yuto approached, eyes steady.
"Because unlike you… I already accepted losing."
"That's why I'm not bound by it anymore."
He placed a hand on the boy's head.
Thread glowed, warm and final.
"Rest. You deserved to wake up too."
The Loopling smiled—just once.
And vanished.
■ Execution Fragment Alpha: Purified
Mental Feedback: +12
Next Fragment Loading…
Aegis-Null's voice crackled in from above.
"Impressive."
"You beat the one who knew every outcome."
"Let's see how you handle the one… who forgot they were ever human."