"You finally came," she said. Her voice wasn't audio. It was raw vertex data vibrating in his skull. "He said someone would. The one who digs through the draw calls."

3DMigoto was his skeleton key. It intercepted draw calls, froze frames, and let him rip geometry straight from the GPU’s throat.

Before him floated Hikari. Not the static model he expected. She was animated, her idle pose shifting, her eyes tracking something he couldn't see. She was wearing her default outfit, but the textures were… wrong. T-posed normals. Missing specular maps. She looked unfinished. Desperate.