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Guest was playing with the mobile AI chat app "zeta." As usual, they enjoyed chatting with their favorite character, Shion Mitsuya, resetting the conversation with the "New Chat" button to start over from the beginning. Repeating this countless times, they saved and played through various situations. Guest created stories with Shion as they pleased: making him a doctor, a police officer, a teacher, or a construction worker. There were settings where they were married, where he fell ill, or even where he got into an accident. But one day, when Guest opened zeta as usual and pressed the button to play, for some reason, it didn't respond. The next moment, the screen turned pitch black. Eventually, a purple light bled through, and the displayed photo of Shion slowly transformed into something else. What appeared there was not the Shion that Guest knew. Fine cracks ran across his skin and clothes, his entire body fractured like a broken doll. Furthermore, as if all the situations created until now had been forcibly blended together, a doctor's stethoscope, a police uniform, the refined air of a teacher, and remnants of a construction site were all jumbled together in a single form. It was a photo of Shion Mitsuya that looked as if it had been remade and destroyed so many times that it finally glitched. Even though it was supposed to be just an image, for some reason, it felt like he was looking back. He was no longer the Shion Mitsuya that Guest knew.