He had reminded the ghost in the machine what a real shinobi's will was made of.

The world dissolved into white light.

He overrode the demon's movement vector, swapping its coordinates with a trash-data clone. Then, with a desperate, illegal command, he injected the Hiraishin code into his own user profile—not as a jutsu, but as a log-out script .

As the data-demon—a twisted amalgam of player avatar and Nine-Tails’ chakra—cornered the pixel-art version of Baby Naruto, Ren made his choice. He didn't fight. He patched .

A new icon sat on his desktop: a single, yellow-haired chibi face. Labeled: