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Chapter 26 - Chapter 26: “The World Tried to Rewrite Me — So I Tore Up the Whole Story Instead”

Scene: Collapse of the Old World

Across every plane, every world, every timeline—

everything stutters.

Cities melt into words.

Oceans freeze into phrases.

Mountains crumble into half-finished sentences.

People scream as their memories glitch:

A mother forgets her child's name.

A king forgets he ever ruled.

A hero forgets they were ever brave.

Because the story they were built on?

Gone.

Burned when Raze snapped the Book of Endings in half.

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⚔️ Scene: The First Rewrite Hunters Arrive

They come from the broken remnants of abandoned timelines.

Twisted beings — former protagonists, villains, side characters — all desperate to claw their way back into relevance.

Their mission:

> "Capture Raze Vielhart. Bind him. Rewrite him."

Hunter One: A failed hero from a destroyed world — still clutching a rusted sword of hope.

Hunter Two: A discarded goddess, dripping ink instead of blood.

Hunter Three: An unfinished monster, a boss battle that never got a final form.

They corner Raze, Kaelira, and Eiro in the ruins of what used to be a concept of "Home."

> "You burned the Book."

"You broke the ending."

"You will pay."

Raze cracks his knuckles.

Kaelira draws her blade from the fabric of possibility.

Eiro twirls the pen made of stardust.

> "Cool."

"Come and take it."

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💥 The Battle: Reality as the Battlefield

Raze punches the failed hero so hard the timeline the hero came from erases itself.

Kaelira slashes through the goddess — not her body, but her forgotten prayers — and the goddess collapses in silence.

Eiro scribbles a single sentence in the air:

> "The unfinished monster was always a failure."

The monster explodes before touching them.

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🧩 Scene: The Birth of the New Multiverse

Wherever they walk, new worlds form:

A city where love can physically fight war.

A forest where grief grows into flowers.

A star where people choose their gravity.

All shaped by the Law of Choice Raze created.

> "We're not just survivors anymore."

"We're authors."

And each step they take is rewriting creation itself.

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🪞 Scene: The Mirrorless — True Intent

In the ruins of the Temple of Fate, the Mirrorless watches.

They aren't laughing.

They aren't crying.

They are smiling.

Because this was never about controlling Raze.

It was about breaking the wheel entirely.

> "The world thought it could chain the boy."

"We showed them… he was the storm."

And carved into the walls of the broken temple, a prophecy changes:

> "Not the king.

Not the villain.

Not the hero.

The one who broke the pen."

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🌒 Final Scene: Raze Looks at the Stars

He sits at the edge of a newborn universe.

Kaelira leans against him.

Eiro draws constellations in the sky with a lazy flick of his pen.

None of them say anything.

Because they don't need to.

They know.

They won.

But the question now isn't how they'll live.

It's what story they'll dare to write next.

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