The sun broke over Jeju Island with a quiet dignity, casting gold across the scorched ruins of the aerospace facility. Smoke still curled from the shattered control tower, but the skies were clear—no rocket, no signal, no threat.

Inside a temporary medical tent, Seul sat on a cot as a medic cleaned her wounds.

Rae leaned in the doorway, arms crossed. “You almost died up there.”

Seul smiled faintly. “You say that like it wasn’t worth it.”

“It was.” Rae walked in, her voice softer now. “But next time, we don’t split up.”

“Deal.”

Across the encampment, Rin sat with Ji Woo, analyzing the last fragments of Mi Na’s data. “This isn’t over,” Rin said. “She had fallback servers. Remote nodes. There’s still code out there.”

Ji Woo nodded. “But no more central core. No more funding pipeline. And no more public faith.”

Bong Soon entered the tent with Min Hyeok close behind, both of them exhausted but proud. “We’ve heard from Seoul,” Bong Soon announced. “The government’s disavowed Blue Star. Emergency summits are already underway. Your footage went viral. You exposed everything.”

Rin stood. “And Mi Na?”

Ji Woo answered. “Still unconscious. In custody. But someone like her… she doesn’t need consciousness to leave scars.”

Rae approached, slipping an arm around Rin’s shoulder. “Then we stay ready. Always.”

Min Hyeok cleared his throat, holding out two envelopes. “These came through the secure line this morning. From the National Science Council.”

Rin opened hers first. Read it. Went wide-eyed.

Rae read hers. Blinked. “They’re offering us positions?”

“Lead researchers,” Bong Soon clarified. “On ethical enhancement protocols. You’d help rewrite the legacy… the right way.”

Rin looked at her sister. “Do we say yes?”

Rae grinned. “Let’s write a better future. Together.”

That night, beneath the stars, the sisters stood on the edge of the island’s cliff.

No tech. No weapons. Just wind and water and breath.

The sky stretched endlessly above them. The same sky they’d just saved.

“We did it,” Rin whispered.

Rae nodded. “And tomorrow, we do more.”