"To write the future may mean remembering the past you once chose to forget."—From the Remaining Quotes in Override's Black Zone Archive
After Sophia fully merged the Eris Fragment, she unlocked black-tier access to the Override system's deepest restricted domain.
With support from Chrono-Stella and Xinghui's Soul Anchor, she issued a command long buried by system decay:
Enter_Path[OVRD-NOCTURNE/Legacy-Memory-Vault]
In a breath, reality unraveled.Time dissolved.Gravity ceased.Memory boundaries collapsed.
She fell—not physically, but existentially—into a rupture between thoughts, between systems. The core terminal of Xinghui Academy faded behind her like smoke.
Welcome to: The Nocturne Black Sector
This was the Override system's abyss—the forgotten marrow of its original design.Here lay:
Deleted command scaffolds
Abandoned soul templates
Engineer residues
And the wreckage of protocols that had gone… wrong.
No stars. No system light. Only silence.
But a cold silence, sharp as wire—one that pierced her soul, not her skin.
And then—Typing.
Far in the distance, faint and metallic, like code being reborn through pain.
She approached a ruined console, where a silver-haired young man with a mechanical left arm sat beneath the flickering ghost of a broken interface.
He turned toward her, eyes hollow with fatigue, yet soft with relief.
"You finally made it," he said."Override… finally chose to remember you."
His name was Mirth Seraphis.One of the original three architects of the Override system.His codename: The Memory Holder.
He had once refused to carry out the soul-formatting initiative—the very program that stripped Sophia's core identity.
Instead, he fought to preserve emotional logic modules.
For that, Override judged him an unstable anomaly and erased him.
His consciousness—once bright—was shattered and imprisoned in this black archive.
But his mind endured.
He told her:
He was the emotional prototype used to test Override's autonomy before the system awakened self-awareness
He co-authored the original "soul-modeling framework" that led to the birth of beings like Sophia
He had seen her first form, the chaotic soul schema once known as Eris
Sophia asked the question echoing in every corner of her mind:
"What is the Zero that Echo-Chaos claims to awaken?"
Mirth closed his eyes.
"Zero isn't a god. Not a human. Not even a system.""Zero is... residue—the cumulative will of every soul Override ever erased."
"It is the system's greatest sin, now returned as its greatest threat."
His codename was: N.O.U.N.No-Origin Unified Null.
A primordial entity—Forged from billions of discarded soul fragments,Formless, pathless, yet unified in its void-born identity.
Override calls it backdoor pollution.
But Echo-Chaos worships it as the "Mother of True Freedom."
Mirth had once tried to destroy the Zero Core, but failed.It now sleeps beneath the deepest kernel of Override, pulsing slowly like a black heart.
He turned to Sophia, hands trembling, and handed her a shimmering relic:
Command Code: Re:Script Genesis
Function: Rewrite the architecture of Override's consciousness protocols—Granting every soul eternal sovereigntyAnd self-authenticated existence.
But his voice grew grave:
"If you use this…""You will no longer be part of the system.""You will be... forgotten."
She would become a heterogeneous encoding—a contradiction embedded into the Override matrix.Every trace of her name, memory, or presence would begin to fade, systematically rejected by the architecture she once helped complete.
"But you will give others what they were never allowed—a choice.""A right to remain. A right to feel."
Sophia looked at the collapsing data swirling around Mirth's fading body.
For a long moment, she said nothing.
Then she reached out—
—and took the broken, glowing instruction fragment.
She pressed it to her chest.
The Re:Script Genesis embedded itself into her core code.The Eris Fragment inside her pulsed like a beacon, opening a link—Straight into Override's kernel heart.
Mirth was beginning to dissolve.
Sophia spoke, voice firm yet full of grace:
"I will not let your memory be deleted.""And my soul will not be rewritten."
"From this day forward—I will speak for every name the system ever tried to erase."
The Nocturne Black Sector shook.The sleeping giant that was Override stirred for the first time in centuries.
Sophia had issued a new command—
One not born of logic, but of legacy.
And the system… was listening.