"To rewrite a soul, you must first erase its name."
[SATURDAY – 07:00 AM]
Location: Shiroyama Academy Dormitory Block B
The sound of rain.
Not outside.
Inside Hiragi's room.
His ceiling was leaking—except it wasn't water.
It was ink.
Black, thick, and dripping like tears from the heavens.
He stared at the mess, unmoved.
The dream hadn't ended. It had just… changed formats.
The Journal Changed
The cursed notebook that had once belonged to Reina Akasumi—now branded by The Draftmaster—was open on his desk.
A new page had been inserted overnight.
The page bled at the edges, as if it had been torn from a living book.
"The First Rewrite: Welcome back, Kurono Sayaka."
Hiragi's eyes widened.
That name… should not exist anymore.
Because—
Kurono Sayaka died three months ago.
He saw her body.
He burned her soul.
Flashback – The Forgotten Case
Kurono Sayaka.
Third-year student.
Occult Club President.
She dabbled in mirror rituals and Shadow Binding.
During a botched summoning, she was consumed by a Mirror Fiend—
Hiragi himself was forced to end her suffering.
He remembered her screaming,
"Please don't forget me—"
before her existence was wiped from every record.
School, That Morning
Hiragi walked into class, his usual cold aura trailing behind him.
The moment he stepped inside—
Everyone acted normal.
Laughing. Chatting.
And sitting near the window, in seat 3-C…
Was Kurono Sayaka.
Smiling.
Breathing.
Alive.
"Yo, Hiragi~! Long time no see, haha! Did you ignore my texts again?"
"You're such a mysterious guy~ Still working that detective stuff?"
He didn't answer.
He just stared.
His hand instinctively reached for the Void Pulse sigil on his wrist—
It buzzed weakly, as if confused.
She was real.
The world thought so.
Only Hiragi remembered she was supposed to be dead.
Breakdown: Memory Desync Detected
[ Ishigami: "She's been here all semester. Are you sleep-deprived?"]
[ Airi: "Eh? Sayaka-chan? Of course she's in our class... why wouldn't she be?"]
Suguru: "Wait bro—are you gaslighting ME now?! I swear she was in the occult club last week!!"]
Nobody remembered the truth.
The Draftmaster had rewritten her into the script of reality.
The Void Slayer's Immunity
Because of the corrupted Void within him—
Hiragi was immune to memory manipulation.
He saw the cracks in the illusion.
Kurono Sayaka blinked for a second too long.
Her shadow flickered in the shape of a quill.
Her eyes sometimes showed glitches of mirror static.
Operation: Confirm the Rewrite
That night, Hiragi activated the "Void Rewrite Trace", a technique Nolan once taught him.
"If a lie replaces the truth," Nolan had said,
"there will always be residue left behind."
He trailed her to the occult room.
It was locked.
But inside, through the glass…
She was speaking to herself.
No.
To someone invisible.
"I'm doing my best. He doesn't trust me."
"No, I won't glitch again."
"Yes... I remember the death command."
"Hiragi Kael must be erased from the canon."
Revelation
Kurono Sayaka was not resurrected.
She was a rewritten draft of a real person.
A puppet laced with memories stolen from Hiragi's dreams.
A test run by The Draftmaster to see how far they could bend the world.
The real Sayaka was still dead.
This one was... a scripted illusion given flesh.
End Scene
Hiragi broke into the room.
The girl turned, startled—
Or at least pretended to be.
"What are you doing?" she said. "You're scaring me."
His Void Eye activated.
[TARGET: FAKE ENTITY – DRAFT TYPE-1]
[CORRUPTION LEVEL: 89%]
[NAME: KURONO.SAYAKA.V2]
"You're not her," Hiragi whispered.
She smiled sadly.
"And yet... I remember your name better than she ever did."