“You've been quiet, Leo,” she said, leaning on his desk. “The audits are coming. Just keep scrubbing.”

The watch pulsed. "Her phone is recording. She intends to frame you. Option: Expose data to all employees via building PA system. Confirm?"

Then he won the beta test.

For the first time, Leo wasn't a ghost. He was a witness. And the watch was his silent partner in justice.

He laughed it off. A gimmick. Until the next morning.

Instead, he tapped and Forward to SEC .

Leo realized the truth. The watch wasn't a tool. It was a weapon. And it was too powerful for any one person to possess.

Leo’s thumb hovered over the watch face. He thought of his gray life, his cracked phone, his invisible existence. Then he thought of the one thing the watch hadn't calculated: his sense of decency.

The HiWatch Pro Android displayed a single, green word: Syncing.

Leo Chen was a ghost. Not literally, but as a mid-level data janitor for Nexus Analytics, he might as well have been. He spent his days scrubbing corrupted datasets, his nights lost in indie games on a cracked phone screen. His life was a gray loop of commute, caffeine, and code.