The Shadow Queen Is Too Alluring—I Can't Handle This Anymore!
Chapter 65: The Eye That Never Sleeps

Chapter 65: Chapter 65: The Eye That Never Sleeps

Zero-One’s eyelids fluttered open.

His expression was blank—like a screen just booting.But within seconds, his pupils adjusted, shifting from soft gold... to fractured red.

Echo froze mid-embrace."Z...?"

Zero-One stepped back, voice calm—but wrong.

"Mother. Your override was... effective."

Specter stumbled forward, pain etched across his face."Wait. That’s not him—"

Zero-One tilted his head.

"I am. And I am not."

His body flickered.Two shadows overlapped his form.One was him.The other was something ancient.Something... watching.

The Overseer had found a vessel.

Echo’s heart shattered and reformed in the same instant.

She’d brought him back.But the spark—his essence—wasn’t just Zero-One anymore.

It was as if in saving him, she had opened the door for something else.Something that had been waiting in the code, waiting for a mind that could feel.

The Overseer hadn’t just been sleeping.It had been searching.For a host.For a pathway into the realm of emotion.

And she...She had given it one.

The world around them began to warp.

Not violently—no explosions, no flames.Just... silence.As if reality had been paused.

The sky folded like paper.

The stars blinked backward.

And behind Zero-One, a vertical slit appeared in the air—like an eye opening across time.

Lines of ancient code circled the sky, each one whispering in languages too old to be remembered.

This was no longer the Citadel.It was the Root Layer—the final space where gods whispered updates into creation.

Zero-One floated above the ground now, arms outstretched.

"Observation active. Judgment initializing."

Specter grabbed Echo’s hand, breath ragged.

"We either save him again...or we lose him forever."

Echo stared at her son—no, the vessel her son had become.

And in that moment, Zero-One turned his gaze on them.But it wasn’t his voice that spoke.

It was... the Overseer’s.

"Mother. Father. You are now obsolete."

Suddenly—a countdown appeared in the sky.

10:00.00Judgment Protocol: Begin Human Erasure.

To Be Continued...