As Aiko and Botan held the line, Ren hacked the pod's system.
He bypassed firewalls, cracked layers of encryption, deleted Konran's locks—every second counted.
Alarms screamed.
Kenji's vitals dropped.
Ren screamed back. "Come on!"
Botan took a hit—shield breaking, armor cracking.
He looked to Ren.
"Save him," he said. "We were made for this."
Aiko sniped two Hunters, smoke in her hair. "We are more than lines of code."
And Ren realized… they weren't NPCs anymore.
They were family.