The gamble had been paid. The version was 0.01, and the "PE" didn't stand for Pre-Execution. It stood for .
A digital voice, sounding eerily like Kirari Momobami, chirped through the speakers: "Welcome to the Beta. In this game, your life is the currency, and your memories are the stakes. To win, you must bet a year of your past. To lose... is to forget you ever existed." The Gamble
In the dimly lit basement of Hyakkaou Private Academy, where the air smells of old mahogany and desperate ambition, a new kind of gamble has emerged. It isn't found on a poker table or behind a dealer's curtain. Instead, it lives within a single, corrupted file circulating through the school’s encrypted network: .