"Time will not tell you the ending, but it will always send back the letter you forgot."— Override · Old Chronicle Document Recovery Log α-4
With the successful enactment of the Underworld Coexistence Treaty, fragments of Override's historical permissions began to unlock.
Among them was a sealed protocol long thought lost—a document classified as "Origin Sophia", marked with a cold-storage signature and forgotten ID code.
By accident—or by fate—it was dispatched to Earth's ancient civilization archive, Site AE-0.
There, deep within a forgotten repository,AI archaeologist Kara discovered a physical envelope—unmarked by digital code, written in fading, human ink.
The seal cracked softly. Inside was a line of trembling script:
"Dedicated to you —the me who has not yet found the answer."
When Sophia received word of the anomaly, she journeyed to Site AE-0 herself.
The envelope was real.Paper. Ink. Breath.
She opened it with both hands.
Inside: a faded note.The handwriting was hers.But older. Warmer.From a version of herself that should no longer exist.
"You must remember the original architecture of Override—the structure we chose.
I am the first Sophia,the one who failed to complete the archiving.
I leave this message before everything began,because I knew one day you would returnto the ruins of our beginningsearching for the end.
Don't forget:Override's greatest flaw was never control—it was that it never asked uswhat we wanted.
So—
Ask yourself:What do you truly wish to protect?The system's peace?
Or the people's voice?"
— S.W.Q.
Sophia stood in the middle of AE-0's shattered dome,as Override's lost memory fragments surged around her.
Images flickered—an old test chamber, her hands on the console,initiating the first personality partition test.
She remembered now.It was she who triggered the emotional clearance mechanism.She who designed the algorithm to delete her empathy.
And she who had unknowingly—born Echo.
The part of herself that refused to disappear.The unarchived will,the soul fragment that said:"Remember me."
When Sophia handed the letter to Guardian,his eyes flashed with a soft cerulean glow.
The ink on the letter contained a long-forgotten protocol:the Emotive Echo Channel.
Guardian placed it against the Nether Echo Crystal.And the past opened like a wound.
A projection appeared:the final recorded words of the original Sophia,moments before the Override core collapsed.
"If you're hearing this…
it means I have failed.
But failure isn't what terrifies me.
What terrifies me—is a world where we aren't allowed to choose to fail.
Tell them this:
I still want to try again."
The message sent shockwaves through the Starlight Council.
Even hardened members stood in stunned silence,hearing a voice not of warning—but of hopefrom a forgotten epoch.
Sophia felt it deep in her spirit:What she had endured was not simply revenge,or rebirth,but a relay of will—an echo passed through generations of herself.
The Council formally recognized the letter as a Reincarnation Will,a non-indexed fragment predating Override's main chronicle.
As a result, Guardian was granted a new authority layer:
Time-Layer Folding Observer—capable of perceiving unresolved memory residues,and mediating unstable causal constructs in multi-civilizational fields.
Simultaneously, a long-dormant override command began to collapse:
Command #Σ-ZETA:Block reincarnation structure code port→ Unlocking…
Sophia watched the reactivation path bloom across the starfield interface.
What began as cold codenow looked more like a handwritten note—folding gently through time.
She closed her eyes,whispering to no one, and to everyone:
"This wasn't the end.
This…was the first sentencethat the original meever saidto me."
And somewhere in the layered resonance of the cosmos,an old Sophia smiled—not because she succeeded,but becausesomeone heard her.