I didn't care. I wanted the pain.

I was inside.

It was the pause screen.

I tried Alt+F4. Nothing. Task manager? Denied. The game had hooked itself deep—ring zero deep. My GPU temperature spiked to 85°C. On my desktop, a new file appeared: .

I laughed at first. Creepy fourth-wall stuff. Cool.

The final level wasn't a castle. It was my childhood bedroom—rendered in Unreal 5, down to the crack in the window frame. Jin stood in the corner, but his armor was gone. Beneath it: my face. My age. My tired eyes.