He looked utterly… anonymous. Stripped of his power, his influence, his very identity. There was no trace of the manic rage, the bombastic arrogance, or the desperate fear that had once defined him. His face, though still bearing the scars of his mental breakdown, was blank. Empty. He was simply… working. A drone among drones, a labourer in the dirt.
The news anchor’s voice continued, a detached, clinical tone. "Sources close to the rehabilitation programme suggest Kross suffers from a profound dissociative amnesia, with no recollection of his former life as a tech titan. His 'reintegration' involves manual labour and basic community service, under strict, round-the-clock supervision. The irony of the once-quadrillionaire now living a life of absolute poverty and anonymity has not been lo
