Finale

'Don't tell me...' When it all clicked, something inside my brain snapped.

My vision blurred and shifted—colors dissolved into streams of binary numbers, zeros and ones cascading like waterfalls.

At the same time, memories I didn't know I had came rushing into my mind.

"Hahahaha!" I couldn't help but laugh, the sound echoing through the air. It was so absurd, yet so perfectly clear now. 

Aria's expression shifted from suspicion to outright alarm as I started laughing uncontrollably.

Her grip on the bow tightened, and she took a cautious step back, her eyes darting between me and the Monolith.

"What's so funny?" she demanded, her voice tinged with both confusion and fear. "What the hell is going on?"

"It all makes sense!" I finally managed to say.

"This world, this game, the Monoliths... everything. It's all code. All of it! We are in a game."