The world snapped back into color. Mario unfurled with a gasp. The hole in the square became a door.

And from inside the console, a voice—Olly's voice, but older, tired—whispered: "Finally. Someone who knows how to unfold a story."

Peach looked at frozen Mario, his paper skin stretched taut. He wasn't waiting for a jump. He was waiting for her.

Princess Peach sat in the quiet of her restored castle library, the only light coming from the holographic display of a peculiar console Mario had brought back from the Origami Festival. On the screen was the file: . Below it, a single line of corrupted text read: "Last Saved: The Day the Folded Star Fell."

The save file was named simply: MARIO_1 . But the data signature was wrong.

Peach straightened her crown, which now had a sharp, origami point at its center. She looked at the screen one last time. The code had changed.