The being arrived on floor fifty-three without warning or approach.
One moment the floor's scenario was running — a layered combat environment with the specific architecture of Tower floors in the mid-fifties, multiple simultaneous threat vectors requiring managed prioritization rather than sequential engagement — and the next moment the scenario paused. Not cleared. Paused. The threat entities held in place, the floor's environmental mechanics suspended, the ambient light going from the scenario's natural register to the flat, sourceless quality of a space where a different kind of presence had decided to occupy the same architecture.
Kang Min stopped moving.
