diff --git a/src/reyn/config/migrate_text.py b/src/reyn/config/migrate_text.py
index 19dbf2d39..68711b2a7 100644
--- a/src/reyn/config/migrate_text.py
+++ b/src/reyn/config/migrate_text.py
@@ -203,6 +203,24 @@ def rewrite_text(text: str, renames: dict[str, str]) -> RewriteResult:
         (extractions[old_key][1], extractions[old_key][2])
         for old_key in extractions
     ]
+    # A blank line that sits BETWEEN two chunks this SAME rewrite is
+    # already removing (and nothing else) was only ever separating those
+    # two keys from each other — once both are gone, that separator has
+    # nothing left to separate. Absorb it into the removal too, or it
+    # survives as an orphaned blank line and collides with whatever
+    # trailing blank the merged/inserted block ends with (byte-for-byte
+    # "untouched" only holds for what this rewrite doesn't touch AT ALL;
+    # a gap strictly between two touched keys is touched by definition).
+    removed_ranges.sort()
+    merged_ranges: list[list[int]] = []
+    for start, end in removed_ranges:
+        if merged_ranges and all(
+            _BLANK_RE.match(lines[i]) for i in range(merged_ranges[-1][1], start)
+        ):
+            merged_ranges[-1][1] = end
+        else:
+            merged_ranges.append([start, end])
+    removed_ranges = [(s, e) for s, e in merged_ranges]
 
     # First pass: does `parent` already exist as a top-level key in the
     # ORIGINAL text (not counting what we're about to remove — a renamed
diff --git a/tests/interfaces/test_config_validate_migrate_command_4174.py b/tests/interfaces/test_config_validate_migrate_command_4174.py
index 21681327b..da9fa1dc5 100644
--- a/tests/interfaces/test_config_validate_migrate_command_4174.py
+++ b/tests/interfaces/test_config_validate_migrate_command_4174.py
@@ -512,3 +512,70 @@ def _flatten(d, prefix="") -> dict:
     assert after_flat["llm.api_base"] == "http://localhost:8000"
     assert after_flat["audit_events.keep_days"] == 30
     assert after_flat["unrelated_key"] == [1, 2, 3]
+
+
+def test_migrate_does_not_leave_a_doubled_blank_line_between_merged_chunks(
+    project, monkeypatch,
+) -> None:
+    """Tier 2: #4295 follow-up — a blank line sitting BETWEEN two chunks
+    the SAME migrate run removes (and nothing else) must be absorbed into
+    the removal, not left as an orphaned separator.
+
+    Found via real usage (lead-coder's dogfood-verification request):
+    tui-coder's own un-migrated `reyn.yaml` had `model:` and `models:`
+    separated by exactly one blank line; after migrating both into a new
+    `llm:` block, the output had TWO blank lines before the next section
+    — the blank line between the two OLD keys was neither claimed by
+    `model`'s own (single-line, no-block) removal nor by `models`'s
+    (whose own block-value removal already absorbs its OWN trailing
+    blank, per `_block_extent`), so it survived unclaimed and collided
+    with the moved block's own trailing blank. `migrate_text.py`'s
+    promise is "byte-for-byte untouched except the moved keys" — a gap
+    strictly BETWEEN two touched keys is touched by definition once both
+    keys are gone; leaving an extra blank line there is a real
+    (if data-loss-free) violation of that promise, not cosmetic noise to
+    shrug off.
+
+    Pins line-COUNT identity, not just "does it look right": migrate must
+    not add or drop a single line beyond the mechanical rename+reindent
+    the two moved keys' own content requires."""
+    from reyn.config.config_schema import RenamedKeyHint
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "reyn.config.config_schema._RENAMED_CONFIG_KEYS",
+        {
+            "model": RenamedKeyHint(note="-> llm.model", destination="llm.model"),
+            "models": RenamedKeyHint(note="-> llm.models", destination="llm.models"),
+        },
+    )
+    original_text = (
+        "# Reyn project configuration\n"
+        "# Committed to git.\n"
+        "\n"
+        "# Default model class when --model is not specified\n"
+        "model: standard\n"
+        "\n"
+        "# Model class -> LiteLLM model string\n"
+        "# Three standard tiers.\n"
+        "models:\n"
+        "  light:    gemini-flash-lite\n"
+        "  standard: gemini-flash-lite\n"
+        "  strong:   gemini-pro\n"
+        "\n"
+        "# Project-wide context injected into the system prompt.\n"
+    )
+    _write_yaml(project / "reyn.yaml", original_text)
+
+    from reyn.interfaces.cli.commands.config import _migrate
+    _migrate()
+
+    text = (project / "reyn.yaml").read_text()
+    lines = text.split("\n")
+    # Exactly one blank line between the moved `models:` block's last
+    # sub-key and the next real section — not two.
+    strong_idx = next(i for i, ln in enumerate(lines) if "strong:" in ln)
+    assert lines[strong_idx + 1] == "", "expected a blank line right after the models: block"
+    assert lines[strong_idx + 2] != "", (
+        f"a second, orphaned blank line survived: {lines[strong_idx:strong_idx + 4]!r}"
+    )
+    assert "# Project-wide context injected into the system prompt." in lines[strong_idx + 2]