The game ended in under five minutes.
That was the thing nobody had predicted. Once Finn shot himself and the speaker announced the loophole, the entire field understood the new rules simultaneously and acted on them immediately.
Partners turning on partners. People running from their own numbers. The careful thirty-minute window was collapsing into something fast and chaotic and over before most people had figured out what they were doing.
The speaker kept announcing.
Name after name. Number after number. Bottom ten filling up fast. The top three are announced.
Ruaan stood in the middle of it all and didn't move.
He didn't need to.
He was already at the top one.
