Kai froze. This wasn’t a CPU. It couldn’t be. The Switch wasn’t even connected to Wi-Fi—he’d turned off the router to focus.
The third match loaded not on a stage, but inside a file directory. The players stood on a giant progress bar labeled "Installing to Reality." The ball was a folder icon. Every hit added a percentage point. Lethal League Blaze SWITCH NSP -DLC Update- -eS...
0%… 12%… 34%…
Below that, a countdown: .
Kai didn’t reply. He charged a special—Candyman’s candy-cane cyclone—and launched the ball into the server farm behind the court. It struck a rack labeled "Eschaton Core – Do Not Delete." Kai froze
The installation bar filled in two seconds. Zero to complete. Then the Switch went black. When the screen returned, the main menu of Lethal League Blaze looked… wrong. The usual neon-drenched cityscape behind the character select screen was gone. In its place, a dark hallway lined with arcade cabinets, each one displaying a different fighter. The music wasn't the usual breakbeat or jungle—it was a low, distorted bass pulse, like a heartbeat through a blown speaker. The Switch wasn’t even connected to Wi-Fi—he’d turned
It read: eS_WATCHING.
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