I. The beginning of the gesture without beginning
Edenfall awoke under a light mist, not climatic, but perceptual. It was as if the entire city had forgotten the beginning of its own actions.
In morning workouts, bodies no longer knew exactly when to start moving. Techniques seemed to emerge without a clear initial action.
Riva defined this as Phased Genesis of Movement (PGM) . Velos summarized it clearly:
"The gesture is no longer born.
It only reveals itself."
Juno developed a new protocol to record these out-of-phase movements, but each annotation attempt was too late. By the time the gesture was perceived… it was already in progress.
It was Naeya who suggested stopping writing:
"If the body already knows,
why interrupt it with words?"
II. Akihiko and the Ground That Requires No Form
On Ring Fourteen, where complex movements were once practiced, the floor was covered with uneven material. Not by accident, but by Sael's design.
Akihiko was the first to train there.
And for the first time… he couldn't execute a single known technique.
Every step was uncertain. Every turn was unsteady.
But then his body began to adapt without resorting to previous forms.
He didn't imitate anything. He didn't remember anything. He just moved… as if the ground were part of him.
Naeya called it: Living Relief Movement.
And Akihiko wrote:
"When the body stops seeking balance…
it discovers that imbalance can also sustain."
III. Lirea and the Record of the Non-Occurring Form
Lirea, intrigued by gestures that were never executed, created a space called Record of the Form Not Occurred .
There, each visitor had to enter, visualize a movement…
and not perform it.
A whisper of a fist. An aborted leap. A turn that lives only in desire.
Every unexecuted attempt was recorded as a latent impulse. And little by little, the walls of the space began to change shape.
As if non-action also had a physical presence.
—"This is what the body dreamed…
and decided not to impose."
IV. The Unsequential
A new group emerged between the Cadence Deniers and the Fragmentaries.
They called themselves The Sequenceless.
They didn't make erratic movements. Nor did they repetitive ones. Simply put... each of their gestures never came after the other.
They were like words in sentences without syntax. Incomprehensible, but full of raw truth.
Velos tried to stop one. But his body, in responding, couldn't find a connection between his own movements.
It was Sael who understood:
"They're not looking to disconnect you.
They just want you to recognize yourself…without the need for continuity."
The solution was a new technique: Lucid Fragmentation. A series of loose gestures that don't form a unit,
but together, they affirm that we are also parts.
V. Naeya and the Corridor of Intimate Presence
In the south wing of the Reverse Garden, Naeya designed a narrow, elongated space. Only one person could pass through at a time.
There, no one could execute sequences. No jumps. No shapes.
Only tiny, intimate, restrained gestures .
A deliberate blink. A knee bend without moving. A shoulder brushing against a wall.
He was baptized as: Corridor of Intimate Presence.
Visitors didn't leave transformed. They left… content.
Juno wrote:
"Not every gesture is a revelation.
Some just want to be welcomed."
VI. Epilogue – Where the body no longer seeks its reflection
As night fell, Akihiko stood in the center of Ring Three. He performed a light sequence. No intention.
No technique. No name.
And for the first time, he didn't look to see if anyone had seen him. He didn't listen for a vibration in the ground. He didn't wait to see if the wall would vibrate.
just… breathed.
And his body, in doing so, no longer asked for return. It only confirmed:
"I'm here."
END OF CHAPTER 185