He uninstalled Cheat Engine. Then he reinstalled Pixel Strike 3D—fresh, clean, no memory scanners. His new account was Bronze III.

He wrote a simple script. One button pressed, and he teleported behind the nearest enemy.

For three months, Kai had hovered in mid-Platinum. Good enough to see the summit, too slow to reach it. Every killcam showed the same thing: a flick he couldn't replicate, a wall-bang he couldn't predict, a jump-shot that defied the game's own physics.

A popup. Not from the game. From Cheat Engine.

Kai's heart pounded. Not fear—excitement.

His mouse hovered over the Cheat Engine shortcut.

Now he was just a Platinum player with a banned account and a cheating stain on his record.