The Scent of the Siren Tide
Teddy pressed the button.
The ground beneath Budi didn't just crack—it dissolved. A void opened up, swirling with violet nebulas and jagged, broken shards of time. Budi felt his feet leave the earth, felt the city of Jakarta falling away into a memory, and as he began to plummet into the abyss, he saw the truth: the world wasn't ending. It was being reformatted.
"Welcome to the source code, Budi," Teddy’s voice echoed from everywhere and nowhere at once. "Now, let’s see if you can rewrite the system before it deletes you."