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Chapter 26: The Last Line of Mira

作者: You Keika
last update 最終更新日: 2025-06-25 17:33:12

The ship floated in deep drift.

No destination.

No agenda.

Just space.

Sera hadn’t spoken in three hours.

She sat alone in the lower systems bay, one hand resting lightly against the glass of Zero’s cradle. Not in fear. Not in pity.

In something like recognition.

She could feel the quiet buzz of the dormant core inside her. Not active. Not threatening.

Just waiting.

Like a final note that hadn’t been played yet.

On the bridge…

Lira watched Astra like she was a lit fuse.

The girl was calm, too calm. She sat cross-legged beside the nav console, drawing again. Same symbols. Same spirals. Except now, she was starting to repeat them.

Lira finally asked, “What are you drawing?”

Astra glanced up, then held out the datapad.

Lira frowned.

It wasn’t a picture.

It was a key.

A sequence. Old Mira code. Buried formatting decrypted without a guide.

Lira stiffened. “Where did you learn this?”

Astra blinked. “I didn’t. I just... remembered it.”

Below deck…

Elias studied the repeating data loop runnin
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