Bound Town Project had started as a containment exercise. A place to store broken oaths, forgotten promises, the psychic residue of people who said "I'll be right back" and never were. But somewhere between Prototype28 and 29, the town started answering back.
"You're not real," he said.
For the first time since activation, Ryuu01's emotional dampeners flickered. Not from fear. From recognition. Bound Town Project -Prototype30p2- -Ryuu01-
His hand closed around the hilt of the Severance Blade. The rain grew louder. Bound Town Project had started as a containment exercise
He found the first knot on a lamppost near the old tram depot. It was human hair, braided with copper wire and a single yellow feather. When he touched it, the simulation glitched—just for a second—and he saw a girl in a yellow raincoat standing at the end of the street. She wasn't there in the next frame. "You're not real," he said
And that was when he realized: he wasn't here to sever the thread.