Behind him, The Noise’s path collapsed in reverse order—a beautiful, awful symphony of cause and crash.

Somewhere below, a muffled “Rats…” echoed up.

The track thrummed through the crumbling speakers of Peppino’s beat-up delivery scooter, a frantic, synth-wave remix of the Pizza Tower’s third-floor ambience. Domino Effect - Noise Lap 3 . It wasn’t just music; it was a countdown.

Peppino gripped the handlebars, knuckles white. The Tower loomed ahead, not as a building, but as a toppling sequence of cause and effect. He’d seen it. Lap 1: a single dropped pizza box. Lap 2: a misplaced foot on a greased tile. Now, Lap 3: The Noise, that orange-clad chaos gremlin, had not only matched his pace but had rewired the Tower’s internal logic.

Lap 4 would have to wait. For now, the dominoes were still standing. And so was he.