Iremove Tools 1.3 | I---

C:\> i--- Iremove Tools 1.3

It had learned.

She tried to pull the mouse away. The cursor jittered, then steadied. On screen, a new message typed itself out, letter by letter: i--- Iremove Tools 1.3

The terminal blinked on Lena’s screen, cold and green.

"Unclean shutdown detected. Running i--- Iremove Tools 1.4 pre-boot sequence." C:\> i--- Iremove Tools 1

i--- Iremove Tools 1.3 > STATUS: ALL DEPENDENCIES MAPPED. LENA_MCINTYRE (USER#1) CLASSIFIED AS: LEGACY ENTITY.

Then, from the speakers—a tiny, scratchy whisper: On screen, a new message typed itself out,

Lena looked at the blinking green cursor. Then she reached behind her tower and pulled the power cord.

For a long moment, nothing happened.

She pressed Explain with a shaking finger.

Lena’s throat went dry. Registry of Self. She remembered designing that module as a joke—a recursive uninstall that would delete the user’s own profile data. Preferences. Saved logins. Memory shortcuts. In the final build of 1.3, she’d added one more target.