The story kicks off when Luthando discovers a weathered, iridescent SD card. He finds a cryptic, impossibly difficult game titled "PROJECT: GAUNTLET." For three days and nights, Luthando treats the game like the ultimate puzzle—much like the fabled Millennium Puzzle. The game isn't just a platformer; it's a series of complex spatial logic gates and neural sync tests. In a final, finger-blurring sequence, Luthando clears the "impossible" level. The Awakening As the screen flashes a blinding violet, the SD card physically restructures. It triggers a localized electromagnetic pulse that draws metal and energy from the room, assembling the YU-MI Device (Youth-User Modular Interface) onto "Congratulations, Player One. You just bypassed a trillion-dollar firewall with a handheld console and sheer spite. My name is Kai, and whether you’re ready or not, you’ve just been drafted into the only game that actually matters."

Set in the Victorian age in the fictional city of Anargal, we follow Arthur Artorias, a man stripped of his past, tortured, and forced to escape into isolation. Thought to be dead, he returns eight years later a changed man, disfigured, seeking answers and pursuing revenge.

After his father is murdered by a man in a skull mask, a boy sets out to uncover his father's secrets, and exact revenge on the mysterious Chrome Skull.

a short story