■ Boss fights are easier to read
・During a boss fight, the opening line now stays in the speech bubble. Other lines, like firepower reads, still appear over it, and the bubble returns to the opening line once they fade.
・The boss marker on the progress bar at the top of the screen now blinks while you fight that boss.

■ Balance
・CAT_PIC.jpg: CYCLE bonus raised from +20% to +40%.
・Star Candy: now appears less often. Its price and rarity are unchanged.
・Poison: HP now drops every second instead of in a lump every 3 seconds. Total damage is unchanged.
・MASK: after a loss, DEF now starts again from 100 when you retry.
・Shortened the message shown when ROOT unlocks.

■ Fixes
・Fixed the Codex showing a node’s PATCH effect in its “before PATCH” description if that node had been patched during the run.
・Fixed a cleared stage sometimes being counted twice when you quit on the stage clear screen and resumed. This could unlock some achievements earlier than intended.
・Fixed incorrect descriptions: MASK’s DEF range, BURN.amp’s heat amount, FORK.amp’s strength after PATCH, DRAIN_GEN.exe’s maximum strength, and a missing sentence in the English NOISE_GEN.exe description.