EPISODE 61 — Zone I: The Dead Mirrors

⚔️ EPISODE 61 — Zone I: The Dead Mirrors

🎭 Subtitle: "To strike is to forget."

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🎬 SCENE 1: Introduction to Zone I — The Reflective Labyrinth

Location: An infinite arena made of floating mirrors, breathing reflections, and endless staircases. Each surface reflects not the present, but a distorted memory of the past.

🌪️ Gravity: reversed by pulses.

🌀 Wind: sharp and directional, linked to the fighter's mental state.

📜 Zone rule: each blow erases a memory of the real past, visible through the broken reflections.

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🎬 SCENE 2: Entrance of the two combatants

👤 Eclipse-777 — bio-digital hybrid, cyber-elected combatant from an erased world.

🔻 Techniques:

"Remaining Clarity": generates memory double shadows.

"Neural Spectral Charge": her nerves become sharp.

"Zero Strike": a blow that erases the moment before it happens.

Forbidden technique: " Broken Childhood Reflection" — she summons the younger version of her opponent and forces them to fight themselves.

👤 Kalkhem the Regressed — born without memories, he feels neither pain nor regret. He fights on pure instinct.

🔻 Techniques:

"Empty Fist": strikes without history or intention, impossible to anticipate.

"Bone Inversion": his bones can rotate 360° to break attack angles.

"Blank Vision": his eyes reverse illusions.

Forbidden technique: "Total Regression" — plunges the entire area into mental nothingness, everything becomes instinctive.

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🎬 SCENE 3: First Exchange — Phase 1: Memory Against Zero

⏳ Duration: 6 real seconds — 14 subjective minutes.

💥 Eclipse attacks with "Remaining Clarity," doubling her arms.

Kalkhem blocks without looking, uses "Empty Fist" — strikes Eclipse's energy heart without really hitting it.

📉 Result: she instantly forgets her first mentor.

The mirrors around her darken, reflecting a growing void. Eclipse screams, backs away, yells:

> 💬 "Who... taught me how to survive?!"

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🎬 SCENE 4: Phase 2 — The Labyrinth Moves

⚠️ The arena turns upside down. The stairs become liquid. The floor turns into memories.

Eclipse launches "Neural Spectral Charge": her nerves shoot out of her arms like intelligent blades.

Kalkhem takes the hit, gets lacerated — but doesn't back down.

💢 He grabs one of the blades with his dislocated rib cage and counterattacks with a reverse elbow to the chin.

🧠 Eclipse forgets the name of her home world.

> 💬 Eclipse (shivering): "Why did I come here? What is... Kaïnos?"

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🎬 SCENE 5: Mental Resurgence — Eclipse retaliates with the forbidden

She activates her forbidden technique:

> 🩸 "Broken Childhood Reflection" —

A mirror shatters, and the young Kalkhem (child version, without hatred or instinct) appears and rushes towards the adult.

A mental battle ensues between the repressed past and empty instinct.

Kalkhem seems to hesitate for the first time.

> 💬 Kalkhem (rare words): "I wasn't always... like this."

But he reacts. He absorbs his double and activates Total Regression.

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🎬 SCENE 6: Pure Chaos — End of episode

> Time slows down, the arena becomes organic. The mirrors melt.

Eclipse and Kalkhem now fight without immediate memory, like two cosmic animals.

Each blow becomes a loss, each parry a confusion.

They both sink into a pool of liquid glass, on their knees, wounded, panting, but still ready to kill.

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🧠 END — EPISODE 61

> To be continued in EPISODE 62: The Second Erasure

"What if you forgot why you hate? Would you still fight?"