Night storm over the Imperial Magic Academy. Rain lashes the rooftop observatory where Ara drags Kael away from the celebration rumors below.

Ara stops at the rooftop center under hard rain. Kael lets her pull him there and stands without resistance.

Ara demands the reason for the engagement, listing the ways Kael has cornered her. Rain makes every line sharper.

The Support System appears with the fake-engagement quest, trying to impose rules on the confrontation.

Ara throws her theory at Kael in the rain: that he is using her as a shield against some noble fate. The rooftop feels like a trial.

Ara says the cruel line before fear can soften it. Kael finally moves, closing the distance under the rain.

The system tries to issue a penalty warning. Kael looks at it with open contempt, and the window begins to fracture beyond its normal glitches.

The Support System shatters in the rain, its fragments dissolving into cyan dust between Ara and Kael.

With the system gone, the rooftop becomes terrifyingly quiet except for rain. Kael reaches toward Ara gently.

Kael cups Ara's face with terrifying tenderness. The rain makes the gesture look like both comfort and capture.

Kael speaks without the system between them. Ara reaches for the space where warnings used to appear and finds nothing.

Kael reveals the truth: he has repeated the timeline one hundred times for Ara. His vow sounds like devotion and imprisonment at once.

Final cliffhanger image: the camera pulls far back from Ara and Kael on the storm rooftop. He holds her close with obsessive tenderness; she is rigid in his grasp. Digital dust and rain spiral upward into the words Prologue End.