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That godawful grinding noise still echoes in my nightmares. Our CNC machine spat out metal shards like a dying dragon coughing its last breath, halting production with 47 units still unfinished. I wiped hydraulic fluid from my safety goggles, staring at schematics so outdated they might as well have been papyrus scrolls. My lead engineer was three time zones away at a wedding, and the graveyard shift team looked at me like I’d grown a second head. Panic tasted like burnt coffee and machine oil.

The whiskey burned my throat as I stumbled up Griffith's abandoned service road, Los Angeles glittering below like a spilled jewelry box. Two weeks since the hospice call, and the city's neon glow suddenly felt suffocating – I needed the indifference of open sky. Fumbling with my phone's flashlight, I remembered downloading Starry Map during one of Dad's last coherent nights. "For our stargazing reboot," he'd rasped, oxygen tube whistling. I'd scoffed then. Tonight, desperation made me tap the i

KALPA - Original Rhythm GameCan you hear my voice?Somewhere in the universe, a desolate star that has lost its light.A mysterious girl is standing in front of the star tree.The dead tree glows when the mysterious instruments begin to play beautifully.The stark stars turn blue.I ask her a lot of questions out of gratitude, but the only thing that comes back is her name.I didn't know anything else.She was known only as the guardian of stars that roamed the universe and saved the stars.I didn't kno