The sealed fracture sent a ripple through Earth's atmosphere.
People looked up as one luminous scar in the sky faded cleanly away.
Silver Eyes steadied slightly.
"It responded to acceptance," she realized.
The Watchers transmitted overlapping data bursts.
Subtraction behavior conditional.
Another filament approached Kaito.
He lowered his defensive rings completely.
Silver Eyes trembled in protest—but trusted him.
The filament passed through his chest.
For a heartbeat—
The divided halves of the Origin aligned into stillness.
No rotation.
No counterweight.
Pure neutral.
Then rotation resumed.
But smoother.
Stabilized.
The filament withdrew slightly.
Another fracture sealed.
Even the Watchers could not suppress their astonishment.