One final memory flowed from the sphere to Kaito.
Before the First Architects.
Before structured infinity.
There was fluctuation — spontaneous emergence.
Zero and Infinity were never enemies.
They were dual expressions of the same pre-state.
Division had not been wrong.
It had been incomplete.
Kaito understood fully now.
The system evolves by rediscovery.
Each cycle closer to awareness.
The Hunger had been a symptom.
The filament a correction.
Humanity a catalyst.