“Dong.”

The Sony Entertainment America logo. A flash of red. The CyberConnect2 logo. And then, the title screen: Sasuke and Naruto, back-to-back, rain falling, the Storm theme swelling through his phone’s cheap speaker like a symphony.

At 97%, the connection stuttered. The download froze. Leo whispered a prayer to the Sage of Six Paths. Then, miraculously, it resumed. 100%.

Extracting the zip felt like opening a relic. Inside: an ISO file, a readme.txt (just a smiley face), and a single PNG of Naruto in Sage Mode pointing forward, as if to say, “You’re finally here.”

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