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Chapter 22 - CHAPTER 22 — THE ERADICATION OF THE CAGE

I. SCENE 1 — THE FINAL ANALYSIS OF TRAUMA

Location: Derelict rooftop, overlooking the city. Night.

The wind brushes past Kylori, barely moving him.

The Sacred Iron pain has faded…

but what's left behind is worse:

cold, calculated fury —

the decision to cauterize the trauma permanently.

He summons his entities, not for war…

but for psychological exorcism.

Kylori (inner voice):

"They thought the orphan's suffering was a weakness.

They called it 'containment.'

They tried to rebuild the cell around me.

Their Faith. Their Authority. Their Order…

all dies tonight.

Silently."

He brings forth the perfect trinity for mental annihilation:

Nihiliths — Pure Despair

For erasing faith and hope at the conceptual level.

Sadist Wraiths — Tailored Cruelty

For custom-built psychological suffering.

Veilwalkers — Reality Obscurers

For keeping all trauma isolated, invisible, untraceable.

Tonight isn't revenge.

It's closure.

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II. SCENE 2 — THE SURGICAL STRIKE ON THE ANCHOR

Location: OSA Anchor Point Beta — hidden bunker under a dead church.

The OSA leadership is deep in discussion, dissecting Kylori's signature.

They sit behind consecrated iron, ancient rituals, arrogance.

Then the attack begins.

Not loud.

Not violent.

Conceptual.

The Nihiliths descend first.

Lights flicker — not because of electricity,

but because the concept of illumination suddenly feels pointless.

The entire room becomes heavy, thick with despair.

Officials stare at their hands, trembling,

their identities crumbling.

Commander (whispering):

"The ritual is failing…

w–why?

We haven't even been touched…"

The Nihiliths have inverted their holy frequency

into raw Cosmic Cynicism.

Their faith doesn't weaken —

it evaporates.

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III. SCENE 3 — THE CUSTOM-BUILT SUFFERING

Then the Sadist Wraiths strike.

No alarms.

No physical breaches.

They slip straight into the minds of the leadership.

Each mind gets its own hell:

• The senior priest

His reflection shatters —

replaced with a bloodied, smiling young Kylori

from the orphanage he helped torture.

Except this Kylori is empowered now.

And he remembers everything.

• Veronica's handler

Drops to his knees, silent-screaming,

feeling his soul being flayed

with the exact spiritual pain

he inflicted on Kylori earlier.

It's surgical.

Elegant.

Precise devastation.

Bodies jerk and convulse —

but not one person is physically touched.

It is complete mental annihilation.

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IV. SCENE 4 — THE PROJECTION OF DOMINANCE

On the rooftop, Kylori closes his eyes.

He pulls a single memory —

the orphanage cell,

the terror,

the cold stone,

the helplessness.

He projects it into the bunker.

The OSA leaders suddenly feel

the walls closing in,

the air thinning,

the same terror they once weaponized.

Then…

A Devourer Shade materializes.

It walks calmly to the Faith Anchor relic —

and starts erasing it.

Quietly.

Slowly.

Completely.

The last operating monitor flickers.

Kylori appears —

white eyes blazing,

expression serene and terrifying.

Kylori (echoing, omniscient):

"The cage is gone.

Your god did not save you.

Now… learn the difference

between a monster

and a Collector."

The monitor bursts.

The Faith Anchor dissolves into nothing.

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V. SCENE 5 — THE NEW STATUS QUO

Location: A quiet residential street.

A city pretending nothing happened.

The Anchor Suppression Frequency drops from existence.

The chaotic Eldritch hum settles into a smooth, obedient resonance:

Kylori's frequency.

Sister Veronica collapses in her safe house —

the bunker's psychic feedback shattering her resolve.

She finally understands:

Kylori isn't "dangerous."

He's uncontainable.

Kylori walks home.

A small, cold smile touches his lips.

The Nihiliths return to his shadow —

their forms denser, empowered by collected trauma.

He passes Akira's apartment.

Doesn't stop.

But his shadow stretches toward the building —

a silent cloak of lethal protection.

Kylori (final thought):

"The past is finished.

Now…

let the universe send me something

worthy of my time."

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