Chapter 108: The Rewrite War

Every second was a new universe.

Mirror fought with forgotten names. Phantom moved through possible deaths. Prime anchored them all.

Tenma responded by erasing meanings. Words lost power. Swords turned into thoughts. Thoughts turned into birds.

"You're clever," he admitted.

"But why do you persist?"

"Because I have friends," Liss said. "And they gave me choice."

He paused. That word. It shook him.

"Choice?"

"You never had any," she whispered. "You were made to destroy. I chose to remember."

And her sword struck not his body—but his origin.

Tenma staggered.

"You rewrote... my meaning."

"No," she said.

"I gave you a new one."

And Makagami Tenma bowed.

"Then let me rest."

He vanished into memory.