The Cobalt Connection

​Aranya is a quiet eighth-grader with a knack for fixing broken gadgets. While cycling near the rusted outskirts of the city, he explores the ruins of an old research facility that was destroyed in a "mysterious accident" a decade ago. Under a slab of cracked concrete, he finds a jagged, pulsing blue crystal. When he picks it up, his phone doesn't just flicker—it displays a message in a language he's never seen: "SYNCHRONIZATION INITIALIZED." He feels a strange warmth in his veins, as if the crystal is talking to his nervous system.