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The room was silent.
Not the silence of peace but the kind that screamed louder than noise.
Jayden dropped to his knees, hands clutching his head as if trying to keep his mind from splintering apart. His brother's words echoed again and again in his skull like a pulse from a ghost reborn for vengeance:
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"Jayden... you put me here."
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For seven years, Jayden had believed Elliot took his own life under mysterious military circumstances. But now, this wasn't the face of a dead man it was the face of someone betrayed, imprisoned, broken... and left to rot in darkness.
And the betrayer? No longer a rumor whispered by others, but a truth screamed in blood.
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Ezra's eyes darted across the makeshift device in his hands, tapping into the facility's hidden server lines. But when he tried to access the video files related to Jayden, the screen flashed a warning:
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> Encrypted by The Eye.
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"Wait a second," Ezra muttered, turning to Lena. "You said you worked in trauma recon military-classified?"
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Lena nodded slowly, her eyes lingering on Jayden like she was seeing an echo of the man he once was.
"I was part of a research division. ELS-9. We specialized in memory suppression, emotional conditioning... and guilt containment."
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Ezra frowned. "Guilt containment? You mean... teaching soldiers to forget what they did?"
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"Exactly," Lena whispered. "But we never erased the memories. We just... locked them away."
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Jayden rose shakily to his feet. He could barely feel the weight of his own body anymore like every bone, every nerve was soaked in a crime he could no longer deny.
"I get it now," he murmured. "I didn't kill... I deleted."
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Suddenly, the ceiling above opened.
From it descended a single camera and beneath it, a tripod held an old, worn machine with a blinking green light. It was a relic of tech long buried.
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The Host's voice returned, smooth and cold as ever:
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"Jayden. If you seek redemption, step into the chamber. Let us unearth what you buried."
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Ezra stepped forward urgently. "This is neural mapping tech. If they scan your suppressed memories, they'll have full access to your guilt they can reshape it, control it."
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Jayden looked at him, eyes hollow, uncertain whether justice or damnation waited.
"Maybe... they already have."
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Without another word, he stepped forward, entering what was ominously labeled: The Confession Box.
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Inside, there were no chains, no weapons just a chair and a mirror.
But when Jayden sat down, the mirror shifted... and his reflection began to transform into flickering fragments of the past:
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- He and Elliot running under the golden sky as children.
- Signing the documents to finalize Elliot's "death."
- Sitting at a table with a man in a wooden mask - The Host.
- Signing his name beneath the words: "Close case. Clean memory."
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Outside the chamber, Lena dropped to her knees. Her hands trembled as memories of her own came rushing back. She remembered Jayden years ago. He had been one of her patients in the Mind Closure program.
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"This isn't the first time," she whispered, horror etched across her face. "Jayden was one of the early subjects. He chose to forget... everything."
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Rhea stepped back, stunned. "You mean... he's erased his memory more than once?"
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Lena met her eyes. "He's done it... many times."
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The door to the Confession Box burst open.
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Jayden stepped out. His face was pale, drained of all color. His eyes were no longer focused on anyone present. He spoke in a voice that didn't sound like his:
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"Elliot never died. He became The Eye."
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The room fell still.
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Ezra stood frozen.
Rhea instinctively took three steps back.
Lena whispered in disbelief, "No... no, that's not possible..."
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A red emergency light flickered on.
One of the walls creaked open and from behind it, a man emerged. Dressed in a worn military coat, his face scarred, his eyes filled with silence, and something darker...
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Elliot Crowe.
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He stepped forward slowly, locking eyes with Jayden.
Then, with a voice cold as steel:
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"Welcome to your second truth, brother."
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