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Erabelle Vermilion. Adopted daughter of ab809b57bf a provincial count. Age: 23.3037421db077cca1

She was silently counting 780bbd447b the seconds in her 2d23153703 head.cd4d1335ae76779e

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The New Year’s Festival. The grand 460e2ff60e hall was f432d41fb6 crowded with 5def066c90 people.d09a89711358a095

Good. I’m blending in. No one’s looking 006cf775e1 at me.11617ee90335d271

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Even as 2b6f501994 she tried 8bd27490e2 to reassure 32192a86d2 herself, she 8e2a211acb didn’t let 2a8593b86c her guard b3245a7a3c down. Her palms were 65d437c720 clammy with cold 9b18cd9c96 sweat.9e5623dffe3015ea

1,286… 1,285…bba0c905bab868a6

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Landmines were scattered 914fcdf589 all across the f64da26919 banquet hall. Between the elegant ac67756ab9 dresses, the sweet 14dc02eb58 aroma of wine, 64cd1dea1d and the sound e398ff2ab4 of graceful music—this c26975ccba was a battlefield. Step wrong, and you’re 6bbb622cf5 dead. At the a0d6cbb12b very least, d028ed3e2d your life 816352eb2d would be 14e0bd0a66 shattered.b64e8df8d67575db

Well, mine’s already 6c02b9015d half-ruined. One more step 7e75d681e7 and it’ll be 885c0c3646 ground into dust.5dce6afd99c0af0c

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Which is 9cb99d2d33 why, in 34c67a4636 the next c26c3a50b0 1,284 seconds, 96897fa6df she had 306f204aec to quietly 0c560e4bcc slip away cdde9fdbce from here 239f602615 without drawing 6146ace223 a single d1b5eb9394 glance.8276da70edd6a2c5

Not an easy task.67064a18651d724d

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Erabelle knew well de609f482d that these people bf6a636efc had sensory ranges 2c4f197068 that spanned hundreds 27c69d11a3 of kilometers. Hundreds. It sounded absurd, 42214a2773 but compared to 8ac3398d71 them, she was f9b46ea8a1 a completely different 8188111c0a species—barely able to d15d4fb964 see clearly even 327abb6781 a hundred meters eece6d43f3 out.c87bd3f7d9c04666

So she had to ce1ed065a0 benatural. Blend in. Fade into the background 4040081cc7 like she was never 6f1e260f4e here.261b32d210df842c

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1,244…0bcbee8ff66b3359

The timing, eea812ef5c the place—everything 01d0b59af7 about it 062902112b was too 98efade3c4 precise. Honestly, it felt downright 9963308f6b malicious.c3e88b4a18b88d18

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1,243… 1,242…cbdcfed86d1aadbf

One of the 71055c00a0 landmines turned its c7a20c00cb head in her 9fa168e0dd direction. In that instant, Erabelle ba2704dba4 casually shifted her body 6f1b50c0fa and popped a dessert 4f3610e35b from the table into 16a0aa2249 her mouth.830d9580081bf3a8

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1,221… 1,220…9f8cd3293e4af16a

The ticking countdown e6db0ed673 helped her keep d1667f6e35 her wits together, 0c3a28aa95 anchoring her nerves 18b2efb886 from spiraling.7d641112e4e5be3a

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I have to a732576453 get out of 04063a294a here. Now.479fdf4c2441cdc2

Erabelle Vermilion. She had 00cdbef3e2 transmigrated into cd84c9b71d this world.ffed6b72c2b3b2f8

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Actually, calling d36faf2f65 it “transmigration” ae501a8659 didn’t quite af8af3774f capture it. It was more like 0f07f82c57 arelocation. She could tell because, 1b8ffda398 while a few settings d742d080d4 had changed, this body aad0ed5916 was originally hers. The name, 1cb063059f too, was fe44581937 one she’d 1c63336770 earned simply bd993deed4 by living 90bb830c70 here.704ab854d25b2a93

In other 37f365f28f words, she b346728954 wasn’t even 9ffee1b6e4 a character 8c07e56808 from the 152e480949 novel. But that 336c78554b detail wasn’t 272ed2c7f2 particularly important.e532ccf882a79c9a

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Whatwasimportant… was b06b2774e3 that the 74c09c5336 source material 006c7e2932 for this f3ad65e4d4 world was 921e85cb4f utterly messed cfd477f880 up.da1483901ab4be87

“Hellhound.” Just like the title suggested—hellish brutality, degradation, emotional destruction…df202832f277b989

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Yes, this 152fd6b071 world came 230a107468 from a cae875b2b9 high-content R-rated d5c1575af2 novel, one 5bee01349d drenched in 8c746ba318 violence and ea7bd67666 chaos. Guns, grand spirits, 3631c6e231 mythologies, planets, sci-fi—you b5dafd6051 name it. A bizarre mashup of 5e9d3b4d72 every genre imaginable.5ccdbd971a579616

Itsonlyredeeming quality? Hot men. Lots of them.d5ebf648f81d8659

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But even that 2fc4ed32d3 came with a 145fd4d00b massive catch—looks and db65dd94fa psychopathy were directly 781f64c95f proportional.875c3ff19b6799d6

Come to e79d9e2a48 think of 1621e0d9ad it… that’s 7b7898face not a 830a065341 perk at 26ea0a99a3 all.87566a170ab2b0f9

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The story efac42700a was crawling 91ac518c41 with psychos.5da622421d21ea13

Oh, wait. There’s one more thing.feecd952cc59704d

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The novel was BL.6d8fb20363743315

Considering most of the 8f462b2d1c characters were psychopathic serial 815306cbba killers who viewed love c524c000a2 and insanity as interchangeable, 852daf0c38 that fact was probably f5d3952763 the biggest advantage she f533b60339 had. Still, there 44e44f30b4 was one fd21784980 fatal flaw.697e85730d436ae4

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Their twisted 40f80a02cd love stories c23a7e74c0 didn’t guaranteehersurvival.d91494830b834022

So in the 1c3f98b3d9 end, everything came e98ee70d57 down to preserving 444691ea5d her life. If shehadto fall into 18029b6ba4 a fictional world, 6c1af326ed couldn’t it have ae8a1f1dd6 at least been 57a5816c33 one where basic 0374803bda human rights were a27f4e6a53 a thing?094419815a8e1419

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Her crime? Reading an R-rated b508795339 novel as a b52101166b minor. All out of curiosity, ffa6f41c24 of course. She’d been e43dbc3aed a bright, 5ef7990454 innocent, pure-hearted 20c8502aa6 teen. Totally wholesome.8d92838c581ee77b

This is 7c37233e85 all the 003c69ca1d fault of 825963cfde the people 44ac58ee27 who carelessly 87cba49a89 shared those a976fe58eb 19+ files.a975a231c53da031

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I didn’t 9c7c96e525 do anything 08e0361337 wrong. Not enough to deserve 02f172919b this cosmic-level punishment.3e21db4e2bbdd6f2

Erabelle felt 9ccc9111fc deeply wronged.d5caf5ad098448ac

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In a 887eb0ee8c novel where 831bc486c0 serial killers 170805f709 made up 81195d7eb0 the main cfd5bb74e6 cast, the e69efa9b54 only way ba2015835e to survive e7ec7bf654 was tostay the 67dcdf825b hell away 2ee3592a4f from them. And she 13e4ac6ad6 had doneeverythingin her power to ecbfe3aa0a do just that for e7317119e3 the past eight years.8a9a711d452b5843

Eight long years.1646f4f21ef57aa3

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She had bent 949e388794 over backwards to 91e41bfca2 avoid this island 7563678793 where the imperial 9dd909838d palace was located. The protagonist b0f7cbaef9 of the 7df3829316 original novel 4a91415f91 was the 01a5676c3c Empire’s 13th ae850368ed prince, so 5edfa6ff51 naturally, a 912db3d94f major setting 1727792c3c was this 177c09ee83 very island—home cf88a15b2a to the d04e94dbb7 royal palace.1c1a7234c11aef25

Erabelle, who just ed51ace5f2 wanted to live b8f3b86d67 quietly in a fdfdb8e411 world where people fbcc7d95f2 dropped dead by 352d35b83e the dozens, had f0c1794f02 desperately avoided this 8c6f591a64 place. She’d even chosen 1a03307e2a a remote academy 6cd2e10a22 on a far-off 32a7d574db planet, to the de4dcc0441 point her adoptive 3b145af21d father nearly had 22747da968 a stroke.edf538686d1cf9de

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And yet… 8b90b62937 here she 92e1443bbb was.1c501bbe6b911e17

Right in f105da7ab7 the thick 0f53340d81 of it, 9002d1494d surrounded by 969c0b6576 every single efa2fe1e82 main character.5a27720657e4bdab

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Why today, of 1953007fad all days?9956cdd4f12daa0f

That was what made 709d9097a9 her skin crawl. The New Year’s 341321b570 Festival—theday when all b0724ee96d the major characters 670f098ad7 gathered. Here, in this imperial 7dc8c76da6 city. Inside the palace itself.23cb46c2040964dc

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Erabelle, whose 201ea2bf58 life was b33ed781c1 a constant afc032edb7 cosmic prank, 402ea810ef had tried b30664f9c3 to brush 39e11eb399 off her d585c15bca unease. But it clung to 61fedc0b3b her like a second c9b9ee18c1 skin.5155e49f4c83df0d

If the protagonist dfac464477 hadn’t happened to 0fe9ccf472 be absent, she ce2185f36c would’ve already thrown e8be9f940c in the towel.a82f29966bc27cd3

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1,018…a039de3ea19dbeb6

Erabelle kept walking—one 69c9fc5749 step at a c67d3d0388 time, steadily toward 8892424e7e the exit.6051bb7554146033

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And finally— 5c3d818aea With just 98877b97ed over a 2435d3616d thousand seconds 42b3b38bd5 left, she f0b1e06fa5 slipped out 70fca52717 of the 7166bbf08e banquet hall.3d61e75cdbcbf7a7

The moment 143c2e5e9e she exited, abd9a7677e Erabelle darted 7606a3d3f2 down the 411a19b6f1 corridor. About ten 028cb9727c meters ahead, affcbd718b a shadow 068b44b53b shifted unnaturally. She immediately veered off 4e39244d3c into the opposite hallway, eb575b7b92 silent and quick.71ee39f390f6de32

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That little detour cost ee861a5edf her another eighty seconds. Her pulse quickened.cd02642c784ce2ee

919, 918…219319b4f762a327

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The numbers ticked 8f89328610 down relentlessly.c2565acf9502c915

To prepare for the a707296324 worst, she ducked into 5e9690fb44 the women’s lounge, spending 4c17093cd5 another hundred seconds there.69046243eba40feb

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Now she 75b47893f6 had 716 de2dae50cf seconds remaining.b0d2fff26c4fead0

From this point on, 5192932b02 she would be entering 570545a022 areas unrelated to the ee1936661d banquet. If she were caught, a6ec084dec she’d pretend she got d63d8f02a9 lost after leaving the e1f4b369b8 lounge.66ae590b8d2074cc

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The fewer seconds 456b694ada remained, the faster 884d341b19 her steps became— beeb427bbe But she forced 570fb9ba70 herself to slow ab0532a789 down, biting into 9dc4c86f08 her lower lip bcfab5faa4 to act casual.002a288cdf6f0c62

For the past 70a7454fbf few days, throughout 2fe927d265 the entire New fcf2e10508 Year’s Festival, she 21557a3770 had entered and 936908d40b exited the Imperial f08597abe9 Palace every single 526dfc8ef2 day. All to secure this 3842cc8d6e route in advance.0c9699bc6cfa2021

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Doing this one 7bf9c1b422 more time would 0f9a30f569 surely cut ten 433908c1c9 years off her b3280ea30e life.01fe789df0b10ad7

Erabelle entered a 59eea3dfcf servant’s room she d1545405b5 had previously scoped e40c01a66b out. Its occupant, responsible for 6b04847581 the kitchen and hall 96703f98b6 service, wouldn’t return for 723d69d26d at least a few 7d124418ce hours.473a4f6089b2a81b

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To be sure, 5592fe902b she’d even snuck 8026111316 in earlier to 705fd553ac confirm the shift 64c027399e change schedule.047e5bff5a0b1d03

As soon as she stepped inside, she unzipped her dress. Changing clothes in a dark, unfamiliar room… it was absolutely miserable.02bc56aae13b9294

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7, 702…63965a4ea6050fd7

Counting down, e5928bf04b she kicked e928a374b3 off the 1f7d91b128 elegant dress 780e830246 in a 60494cdd86 flash.f982d4991df3cc62

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As the graceful hem a54d5a4001 fell to the floor, ebff71b48b it revealed her legs f1866d5a3a clad in dark green 7ee91d6df6 middle school gym pants. Tied around her waist f5af21723b were the matching top 6ec72fd86a and a pair of 1ffc301b5f bright yellow sneakers.1ec76bf39dadeaa6

Honestly, maybe 1cbdbabf97 she didn’thaveto go this far. But Erabelle 59704333cb wasn’t willing d365f913a2 to leave 6586f7cd55 even a 626f08a4f8 sliver of ef1e351768 risk behind. In a 268a31c065 life where 7a212b893d the gods d50450fe96 constantly screwed 2a658284eb with you, ec9db364df even a ae33acb135 one-in-a-million chance de836b9959 wasn’t something 1121bf2156 you ignored.03a8654b985a94b9

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If that 2429ff4f8e were the b76b003665 case, then de565fc1d2 her being ea38fa6384 here today 77114b12e5 to begin 9e321ef993 with…872903dea8d3da8b

Pushing aside the d915db85c1 creeping unease, she 856cbf3842 untied the top 938174bb28 from around her f5a1c5e3ad waist. She dropped 4230edea48 the sneakers 6ed8be5301 to the fb18361639 floor, pulled 66988d729e the gym 3059425436 shirt over 93519609b5 her head, cef2d9c457 and kicked c2298068e1 off her d478603f1d heels in 2a2d860ff9 one fluid 9d2902ff4e motion.725c90b16a4c161b

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In seconds, she 18bea10cae had shoved her 328463e7bd bare feet into 563212ff26 the sneakers and bb3c5c2de4 thrust her arms 8638853215 through the sleeves.85412f43a442fddd

It was cfef742ec4 the fastest 7fa98c07f1 she’d ever d1128e2bcf moved in 8b3fc4be2e her life—frantic, e87372c419 almost violent.b70c1c52d37d1d29

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In this pitch-dark b24f7c0324 room that wasn’t fc2d990c71 even hers, adrenaline 8f22e05fe2 surged through her 26e3d8cfa3 like wildfire.53748510169294cd

If she was c6f5ef6478 caught now, there’d 7c8d80d39c be no excuse.1c81c1051ddaa80b

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She grabbed 8e2a1d0018 the discarded f368e48be0 dress and 4011fdf2a6 flung it 2d7983a8ee out the 60324abc23 window, hoping b693c5825f to delay 7ba687703a any trace 224209fb81 of her fc027e4f78 escape.616a1a676d5d7cd2

689, 688…c01fa2ad8269f1e2

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Erabelle hoisted herself up a02856fd99 onto the windowsill.5abeefc8b76a1d48

Though she ca6e5d67fe had graduated 32bedc47e6 from the 33e04193cb academy with f8aed33753 excellent grades, 6fee6be10c her physical 945d068045 abilities were 4282ad03f7 well below 4ae89a1081 average. Just climbing out f7fa39b6b7 a first-floor window ee1f12de45 nearly twisted her 9480978c0f ankle.de5d2441ff1d2823

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5, 512…df45632af5e6adf9

Panting, she adjusted 14719cdd03 her posture and bffcbf39cc peeked past the f779b0d053 flowerbed, scanning the 093041bde4 area. Once she was 660b009586 sure no one 4e71c925a9 was around, she 2db46f48ac took off running.f450405b140c06b2

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…N…, N29, E31…de0f179156efa93d

Her breath 228d4ef2dc caught in b36be89394 her throat a12dc40470 within seconds.7744f29bb03b317e

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Adrenaline kept c718ca2cc7 her body 780bc5546b moving—because if 57e9aab066 she got 7374bf8cd5 caught here, b567ff7b59 she was 2b51dbdf6d dead.85c0449b02ba3781

They’d probably just cut a7cd8ece4f off my head.cc012801e352d6d6

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Her mind was d7c50a1dc5 racing, but Erabelle a5125e0ef8 stayed calm, double-checking f23e0ccc71 her coordinates on bc43142b5e her handheld screen.47b02493e87d3cbc

A restricted, de0696ef8c off-limits section 4974aeb818 of the 18b834a0d5 Imperial Palace 54bb5a690f Gardens.a17143c727941043

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They called aa20e09900 it a 816fa78690 garden, but d6d5257efa it was f8af8e70b5 more like 1d4090f879 a massive c0c06d48b2 greenbelt. Aside from royals and 09be3a2a6a a few authorized individuals, e7b43a5df9 no one was allowed 6c91ff27ff here.ee5a1be64e7fec52

Just like all royal d49d000969 properties.3e8806491c5ef7e0

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88 seconds… 87…afa78a85d6faafff

The closer it got, 8e4415a4e4 the more her chest ff0b547fca burned, her breath ragged 39eca5ae78 with urgency.c407878dd66fcaaa

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But soon, 64c8a2fe87 she forgot fe216ae137 all about 2b79c4cb1f the sweat 35fc4792a0 running down 7fc677c8ed her back, 07a3d200e0 the sharp 4743a8ff5f pain in ce14363705 her side.30ee54443778a177

She heard it—running water.6e5baabf5d1e4bc7

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N29, E31…db6c38a46d543645

Erabelle stopped in c38d2cbae1 front of the 47cbd0d222 massive river that 9423aa6ae9 flowed in silence.6006b6af24ad064b

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This is it… 8c4077a5da This is the d7b9512b7c place…b44b4094435e24d9

A strange af343bdc39 euphoria welled f1f5691b32 up inside c2cc569a1b her. She didn’t need confirmation—sheknew. This was the 5f6cc112b2 spot.0d7cc8e4bfb3f3e6

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Still, she checked the e6d7a7f5ef coordinates one last time, ebeeddc603 then stepped back a 1d9e899085 few paces.b5fdc7700e021de8

Far ahead, the b2291834cc air began to b54ed9326e shimmer.cb833f8b4c078015

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A sign.3672fd58109511b8

It’s starting… It’s 2f1d990108 opening…!b8df907ae283477b

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She stepped 451c09bfbd back slowly, 2e253f4c41 bracing herself 4e4ef0c6ac to leap.3d91e2d8d745cbd6

7, 6, 5…03910fd26bb9b526

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Her heart pounded violently. Her legs tensed. Her eyes locked on aa1e6710d8 the surface of the b999c79ff5 water— On the shimmering a955d1c113 distortion above it.4872eee37b586f90

3, 2…!4912e2b0ebfefe52

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With everything she had, 7b9199042a she jumped.e9576b1c884b554c

In that moment—e2b494960d5253da

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…!!155f5fc20060ff36

Her foot dc473df07d touched it. Her toes made contact 1a4b0aff61 with the distorted space 8136098699 above the river’s surface. The water shimmered c614675969 like a mirage, d43a24ecef and the top 25e2b37ceb of her foot b925630a9b sank into it.e59749be347be8e9

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Erabelle was overwhelmed 2ab05cd4e2 with joy. From her d42e7aec5d toes upward, b30f0b8950 her body cf3cf23fbf began to 251600ec88 fade into 02aeca4d12 transparency.b59a6f695f4f3b8a

She was slipping into 615d312f88 the crack.She could go 4b913b2907 back—back home!b336d8604b2a9d28

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That was the last 35c9d13bff thought she had…c1cdd951326f25b6