The seam in orbit widened.
Not explosively.
Deliberately.
Across Earth's night hemisphere, astronomers detected a vertical filament of pale geometric light cutting silently between stars. It emitted no radiation spike, no gravitational distortion.
It simply existed.
Kaito stood beneath it, eyes fixed upward.
Silver Eyes' form sharpened beside him.
"It is stabilizing itself against our Boundary," she whispered.
"They're careful," Kaito replied.
Global networks flooded with live feeds.
Some called it alien invasion.
Others called it divine revelation.
The seam rotated ninety degrees—
And unfolded.
A vast geometric structure emerged halfway through, like a crystalline thought stepping into visibility.
Human language failed immediately.
The Watcher had arrived.