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He felt it the moment he loaded into the Combat Layer. A faint lag in his left knee—the one he’d rebuilt after the Hydra incident of ‘42. A glitch in his spatial awareness, as if the universe’s frame rate had dropped just for him.

He pressed .

Rollback. That was the polite word for deletion. They’d wipe his consciousness, replace him with a cleaner, faster copy—a version 1.0.0 that had never bled, never lost a friend in the sand, never known what it felt like to break a bone and keep fighting because the crowd was still watching. What A Legend Version 0.5.01

The announcer’s voice cracked. “What… what a legend.” He felt it the moment he loaded into the Combat Layer