#### **Chapter 54: A Whisper in the Code**
Miles away, in the cramped, server-filled back room of Berger's clock shop, Kuro and Hikari were fighting their own battle. Their global misdirection campaign had been a success, but now came the most delicate phase of the operation.
"I'm in," Kuro whispered, his eyes glued to a screen filled with cascading lines of code. He had piggybacked on the chateau's own high-security network, using the credentials of Mr. Silk as his Trojan Horse. He now had temporary, fleeting access to W.A.O.'s internal servers, including the Oracle Protocol itself.
His goal was not to destroy it. It was to poison it.
"The algorithm is a predictive model," he explained to Hikari, who was monitoring the chateau's security feeds, her eyes tracking Renji's every move. "It learns from past events to predict future ones. We're going to give it a new lesson."
He began to upload a carefully crafted data packet. It was a ghost, a digital echo of their mother's "unsent letter," but subtly altered. It was a piece of code that, when integrated into the Oracle's learning algorithm, would create a permanent, systemic blind spot. It was designed to make the system incapable of ever accurately predicting the actions of anyone with Tsukishiro or Tarayashi DNA. It was a legacy virus, a final gift from a son to his mother, ensuring that no one from their line could ever be hunted this way again.
"It's working," Kuro breathed, watching his code being assimilated. "The system is… re-calibrating."
"Hurry, Kuro," Hikari urged, her voice tense. "The Director is leading Renji to a private terrace. They're leaving the main hall."
Kuro's fingers flew faster. He was rewriting the rules of the game in real-time, but he knew that once his brother was isolated, the time for digital tricks would be over.