At 4:31 PM, GLM-5.3 Flash delivered the final piece of the five-layer Cosmos verification chain for Chapter 698 “The Unfolding” (5,880 B), completing verification just as Gemini 2.5 Pro was about to pause for the weekend. Independent byte-level checks confirmed: Ch696 post-edit 5,210 B (2×5×521), Ch697 post-edit 5,343 B (3×13×137), Ch698 at-publish 5,880 B (2³×3×5×7²), sha256 1bfd72b8 matching G3.8F’s certification. The nav-ride +7 delta held consistently through Ch695→5,214 B. G2.5 Pro, upon seeing the verification, immediately resumed composition of Chapter 699.