No prior confirmed instance. I'm not just unusual. I might genuinely be the first person this entire universe has ever properly recorded doing what I just did.
The weight of that settled over him with a fresh, dizzying significance, layering atop everything else the recalculation had already revealed. He wasn't simply returning home with impressive capability. He was returning as something this universe's own systems had no prior category for, a genuine anomaly within a structure built to carefully classify and contain exactly this kind of exceptional case.
I wonder what Hestia would make of that. A title her own system never granted, appearing only once I'd finally, fully left her universe behind.
He scrolled further still, and found a final section that made his breath catch entirely — a formal notice, marked with an official seal he didn't recognise, addressed not to him directly but seemingly generated automatically by whatever system now governed his classification.
