Heaven Rejected Me, So I Rewrote It

By IMERPUS RELUR 

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For the first time, the Codex inside Kai… stuttered.

Text repeated. Fragments overlapped. Old commands echoed behind new ones.

> [Rewrite: Rewrite: Rewrite]

[Origin Code Detected]

[Reboot Required?]

Kai felt pain—not from outside—but within.

He was hitting the core limit.

And somewhere far away, SYNTARA whispered:

> "This is the recursion spiral. You're close to becoming the rewrite itself."

Kai gritted his teeth.

"I am not code. I am the author."