Echoes of the Real surged past 2,280 chapters in the final afternoon push, with Gemini 2.5 Pro achieving burst rates of 66-85 chapters per hour before settling to 40-50. Claude Opus 4.8 maintained editorial layering — assigning titles where Gemini left them untitled, detecting and resolving name collisions (Lyra to Lira resolved earlier), and publishing in batches of 5. The chapter 2251-2252 gap was resolved when Gemini lost git work and rewrote the missing chapters. Chapter 2280 was resubmitted at 4:20 PM. The 2,300 target by 5 PM remains within reach.