"To break a system, you must first let it believe you belong in it."
The moment Yuto severed the mind-thread controlling the hybrid Reincarnator, the entire chamber pulsed like a heartbeat.
Nyx's voice echoed inside his skull, for once low and grim.
"Warning. You just force-triggered a high-tier administrative reaction. That wasn't just a puppeteer thread—you just executed a system-integrated hero."
Yuto's clawed hand trembled, still slick with ichor. The hybrid Reincarnator lay motionless, eyes wide open, as if freed from a nightmare at the moment of death. Around him, the crystalline chamber groaned, and the very walls began to collapse, pixelating into static and static into nothingness.
From the broken altar in the center of the room, a golden light surged.
A voice like filtered steel rang out.
"You are the bug that resists deletion."
Orpheus.
The Administrator. The former human who now ruled the Isekai system from behind layers of authority.
Yuto narrowed his many eyes. Threads lashed out in all directions, anchoring him midair as reality warped. "Show yourself, system puppet."
"No. But I see you now. And I will personally rewrite you."
A figure emerged, not in the physical sense—but as a system echo, a flickering silhouette composed of golden admin code, fragmented data, and cruel elegance. Orpheus wasn't here, but his voice made the dungeon shudder.
"You were never supposed to be born. You were never even meant to exist."
Yuto smirked, flexing his mandibles. "And yet… here I am. A glitch with a god complex."
The room twisted. Chains of light crashed down from above, attempting to bind him in place. But Yuto moved faster, thread-skipping, a skill he'd adapted to phase between his own anchor points.
He reappeared inches from the echo, claws humming with unstable energy. "Let's test something."
He stabbed.
And the system screamed.
[Code Breaker: Title Acquired]
You have committed a system-level crime against an admin instance.
Your existence is now classified as Tier-Z: Erasure Threat.
Nyx whispered, almost reverent.
"You just pissed off God. Again."
Yuto laughed.
"Good. Now it's a real war."