We study the terminal high-frequency regime of a quadratic-root bilinear architecture in which the long prime variable has length D = K² and a reciprocal phase of size K survives. This regime is deliberately separated from the low-frequency exact-Kummer theory treated previously by the author. Four structural results are established. First, by combining a Vaughan decomposition with an unrestricted bilinear monomial estimate of J. Wu, we prove the smoothed terminal reciprocal-prime bound ∑ₙ Λ(n) W(n/y) e(x/n) y5/6+ε for x y3/2, which becomes a normalized K-1/3+ε decay at y = D = K². Second, for the physical centered residual Fourier packet, we prove an exact two-scale energy kernel, a divisor expansion, and a reciprocal-chirp large sieve with squared-operator scale K3/2+ε. Third, we prove a General Shift Orthogonality identity: every nonprincipal multiplicative shift has local autocorrelation O(q-1/2), with exact annihilation for odd shifts; this tensorizes to squarefree moduli and admits a cross-modulus form. Fourth, for quadratic Kummer characters with a fixed signed rational norm core, the nonabelian component is constant up to finitely many classes: the family is a finite union of rational quadratic twists of fixed dihedral base forms, with relative rational conductor K in the short-input block. These results sharply reduce the terminal obstruction, but they do not prove a global sub-$3/4$ theorem: the full same-core reciprocal-prime coupling and the different-core noncollision sector remain open.
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