David burned through the neon haze of Sector 4, a scavenger who clawed his way from the rusted gutters to the center of the arena. He turned the house’s own rigged game into a terminal override, trading his last shred of sanity for a moment of defiance against the shadows. Though his deck shattered and his pulse finally stilled in the dust, he died as he lived—a survivor who refused to let the system have the final word.