In the empty room, the 3DS finally powered off. The SD card was ejected by an unseen hand. On it, one file remained:
The opening cutscene began, but it wasn't in Alola. Leo was standing on a bridge made of compressed junk data—fragments of Mario's hat, a stray Animal Crossing fossil, a single pixel of Link's tunic. The sky was a low-resolution gradient of error messages. 3ds games highly compressed
That’s when he found The Arbor.
> USER ‘LEO’ IS A DUPLICATED ASSET. REMOVING TO SAVE SPACE. In the empty room, the 3DS finally powered off