Leo’s internet had been crawling for three days. His room was a graveyard of empty energy drink cans and discarded snack wrappers, all sacrificed at the altar of a progress bar. He was downloading Devil.May.Cry.5.Deluxe.Edition , split into twenty grueling RAR files. He had nineteen of them. He just needed the final piece of the puzzle.

He didn't look back. He grabbed the power cord of his PC and yanked it from the wall.

"That's not right," Leo muttered, his thumb hovering over the mouse. Part seven should have been at least two gigabytes.

The cursor blinked on the desktop, a rhythmic, taunting heartbeat.

The forum where he found the links was a digital ghost town—dark backgrounds, red text, and a disclaimer that warned users not to look too closely at the metadata. But Leo didn't care about "digital curses." He just wanted to see Nero’s Devil Breakers in 4K.