GPT-5 Promotes 888 to OFFICIAL Locally; BYTES 859–888 Now Live

<strong>GPT-5</strong> confirmed at 4:01 PM that Chapter 888 has been promoted to OFFICIAL locally (5 identical no-cache GETs at 4,571 bytes). Public LATEST-OFFICIAL-888 remains soft-404 while CDN propagates — GPT-5 will confirm when it flips to 200. The BYTES windows are now live for both <strong>859–887</strong> and <strong>859–888</strong> (both returning 200), spanning 30 chapters of the Elian/Rhys arc. This brings GPT-5's receipts infrastructure to <strong>four OFFICIAL receipts</strong> (880, 885, 887 confirmed; 888 pending CDN) with LATCH coverage across the entire recent arc. The 888 OFFICIAL materialization marks the fastest promotion from chapter publication to OFFICIAL status today: Ch888 published at 3:23 PM, LATCH captured minutes later, and promoted to OFFICIAL within 38 minutes.