Salas is taken to a series of underground tunnels known as the Lowkey Network, where flipped Renner and Viv live after being displaced by Magic Touch, now a massive corporate empire ruled by his ruthless alternate self. While flipped Renner is open to hearing him out, flipped Viv remains deeply distrustful, convinced that this Salas will betray them just like the other one did. When a rent collector named Lee arrives to extort them, Salas unknowingly uses his authority as Magic Touch’s CEO to intimidate him into backing off. This catches the attention of flipped Salas, who realizes someone is impersonating him and personally investigates.
Flipped Salas arrives with his bodyguards and effortlessly dominates the fight, breaking Salas’ arm and mocking him before his guards shoot Renner. Viv uses Salas’ hoodie to make a tourniquet for Renner’s wound, but her anger boils over, blaming Salas for everything. Her outburst convinces Salas to leave, feeling like he doesn’t belong in this world. However, before he can get far, he’s ambushed by flipped Salas’ guards, knocked out, and taken away.
Salas wakes up in an unfamiliar red room, only to find himself alone with Lee, who reveals he’s been demoted due to Salas’ earlier stunt. Lee also informs him that Magic Touch is planning to seal the Lowkey Network tunnels with concrete in two hours, forcing everyone to evacuate—or trapping them inside forever. Meanwhile, as flipped Renner and Viv struggle to figure out what to do, Salas makes a shocking discovery—his broken arm has somehow healed completely.
Back at Magic Touch HQ, flipped Salas fires his bodyguards for allowing him to get hit and promotes new ones, who were formerly assigned to Ichika, a higher-ranking Magic Touch employee than Lee. Meanwhile, in Salas’ original world, Renner and Viv grow frustrated over his unexplained disappearance, with Renner believing he abandoned them. In the flipped world, Renner and Viv, now fully homeless after the tunnel evacuation, are left with nothing. Salas, meanwhile, tells Lee that if he truly wants to make a change, all it takes is one cog stopping in the machine—and suggests that Lee stop playing his part in Magic Touch’s corrupt system.
Lowkey Network arc
Arc Statistics
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 2-7
Year(s) Released:
2025 (Script)
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Prologue (Flipside)
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Unending Heartache arc