Then came the glitch.

But Leo just sat there, breathing. He looked at his hands. They were shaking. The line between the game and his living room had thinned, just for a second. VorpX and the Reverb G2 hadn't just let him see Night City. They had let him forget he was in his apartment.

His room was quiet. The screen on his monitor showed a flat, unremarkable screenshot of V standing over a dead body. The magic was gone. It was just pixels again.