Kaito split his focus—one half reinforcing planetary Boundary alignment, the other analyzing the filament's pattern.
He saw it now.
It wasn't random.
It was probing stress points—locations where divided infinity required correction.
It targeted balance itself.
"Why?" Kaito demanded.
The filament pulsed softly.
Across the Watcher grid, several distant stars flickered faintly.
The assisting Watcher transmitted urgently:
Anomaly presence detected in three additional sectors.
Kaito froze.
Earth was not uniquely breached.
The anomaly was surfacing elsewhere.
Simultaneously.
This was not invasion.
It was emergence.