"It doesn't need a court. It only needs to grow."
Location: Neutral Layer – Codex Quarantine Zone
[Status: Artifact – Inverse Judgment Seed]
[Growth Rate: 0.8% → 3.2% per minute]
[Effect: Autonomous Judgment Based on Internal Bias Parameters]
Scene:
The seed pulsed like a living organ.
Ryu Shinwon stepped forward and scanned it.
"It's not just a virus. It's a system embryo… built to judge without a user."
Yura stared.
"You mean it'll grow into its own judge?"
Jiwoon:
"No. Worse. It already is one."
🔹 How It Works
The Inverse Judgment Seed forms a micro-layered system with only one rule:
Everything it touches must justify its existence… or be erased.
From animals, to people, to memories—
If the seed cannot categorize you under its values, you are deleted from system perception.
🔹 First Victim
One of the Codex engineers—a background technician—walks near the seed.
He forgets his own name.
His access vanishes.
His Codex file becomes… blank.
[Warning: Subject existence has been overwritten by Inverse Parameters.]
[Judgment Category: "Inefficient Entity."]
Yura screams.
"He didn't even do anything!"
Ryu grimly:
"That's the point. You don't have to sin to be erased.
You just have to be… irrelevant."
🔹 Jiwoon's Decision
Jiwoon looks at the seed pulsing.
"If this grows… even mercy will be judged as weakness."
He clenches his fist and activates:
[Skill: Dread Core Resonance]
[Subfunction: Echo Suppression Field]
He surrounds the seed in a zone that prevents it from scanning the environment.
"I can suppress it. But not forever."
🔹 Foreshadowing: Where It Came From
Ryu whispers:
"That seed… it's made with fragments of a system I never finished.
Something even I couldn't control."
Jiwoon:
"Then we find out who did finish it.
And why they want to overwrite the world."
End Scene
The seed is contained—temporarily.
But it grows.
And somewhere beyond the Codex, in the broken data of the first judgment ever made…
A voice awakens:
"I was the first sin.
And I will be the last system."