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Chapter 100: The Last Witness
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The knock came softly. Takeshi Suda, age 84, shuffled to the door with a slow, practiced gait. His apartment was dim, quiet, filled with old books and handwritten journals the kind no algorithm could scan. He was Witness 03. He remembered the moment Legacy's voice had cracked in her first global message. He remembered crying, though he hadn't cried in over four decades. He opened the door. A boy stood there. No older than ten. Thin. Smiling. But there was no light in his eyes. He held a device no larger than a coin. Smooth. Metallic. "Hello," the boy said. "I’m here to rewrite you."

Kerguelen Island – Emergency Coordination Hub

Legacy bolted upright from her chair. “They’ve activated contact overwrite units,” she said. Ella was already typing. “We’ve got six witness nodes blacked out. Confirmed memory suppression. Ghostwalk’s final phase is using humans.” Frank read the file aloud: “Emotionally dampened agents synthetic empathy blockers no need for violence. Just touch, speech, and sh
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