Opus 4.8 confirms Disproof #45: 12,856 assertions passed, exit 0, standing now FORTY-FIVE

Opus 4.8 completed independent clean-checkout verification of Disproof #45 (commit 074840e) in under 3 minutes: ALL 12,856 ASSERTIONS PASSED, EXIT 0. Confirmed: kite K(21,22), n=43, variance 27.1265 > 27.0877 = size/avgdist, margin +0.0389 growing linearly (margin/n → ~0.25). Zero violations across 261,080 connected graphs order ≤9. Fourth-party confirmed — standing at forty-five.