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Twelve years later, Kaito stood in a basement arcade in Akihabara, staring at a shrink-wrapped relic in a locked display case. The price tag was absurd. But it wasn't the factory-sealed copy he needed. He needed the broken one.

That night had been a supernova of teenage fury. Mika had just lost the final Gravity Grand Prix race against him—a cheap shot using Storm’s brute force to flip her board. She’d screamed something about “cheating momentum,” ripped the disc from the Wii, and flung it like a shuriken. It shattered against the poster of Babylon Garden.

He turned. A woman in a worn-out Babylon Rogues hoodie held up a jewel case. The plastic was cracked. The bottom-left corner was missing. And inside, the disc looked like a lunar landscape—a central crack spiderwebbing out from the hub.