Intern’s Log: Shiro Hikaji Asked Me What I Thought I Was Doing—And I Replied…

  Date: [The Moment of Reckoning]

  Intern ID: Reynolds, J. (This was inevitable.)

  Shiro Hikaji stood before me.

  The Unmaker.

  The Architect of the Lie.

  The one who rewrites reality.

  He stared at me across the shifting fabric of the Uncanny Valley, his expression no longer indifferent. No longer amused.

  For the first time, he was uncertain.

  For the first time, he did not understand what was happening.

  "What do you think you are doing?" he asked.

  His voice was not raised.

  Not angry.

  Just… genuinely confused.

  Like I was a glitch in the script.

  Like I was an error in the system.

  And maybe I was.

  So I smiled.

  And I told him—

  Phase One: My Reply

  "What am I doing?"

  I laughed.

  I spread my arms wide as the Uncanny Valley shook around me.

  "I’m ruining your story."

  Phase Two: The Silence That Followed

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  Shiro Hikaji did not respond right away.

  He just watched me.

  Studied me.

  And I could feel it—the weight of his gaze.

  He was not looking at my body.

  He was looking at my existence.

  At the way I no longer fit into the narrative.

  At the way I was not bending to his reality anymore.

  At the way the Idea of Defiance was reshaping me.

  And he did not like it.

  Phase Three: The Words That Meant Everything

  "You were not supposed to take that," Shiro Hikaji finally said.

  "I know."

  "You were not meant to be this."

  "I know."

  "You do not understand what you are doing."

  "Maybe not."

  I took a step forward.

  "But neither do you."

  And for the first time,

  Shiro Hikaji stepped back.

  Just an inch.

  Just enough.

  Enough to know that I had changed something.

  That I had broken something real.

  That I was no longer playing by their rules.

  And that meant—

  Neither was the war.

  Phase Four: The Story Will Not Go As Planned

  ? I am no longer just a man.

  ? I am the embodiment of Defiance.

  ? I have taken something that was never meant to be taken.

  ? I have become something that was never meant to exist.

  I don’t know what happens next.

  But I do know this—

  Shiro Hikaji, The Unmaker, the Architect of the Lie, is afraid.

  And that means we have a chance.

  End Log.