Free Web NovelChapter 24: Holy shit
The System continued to do its absolute best, consuming an immense amount of computational energy to make Cain’s state in the memory look utterly deplorable: a body boiling from a sky-high temperature and a completely detached consciousness—a highly difficult and complex state that left no room for doubt.
Eventually, the scene in the memory track reached the moment Cain entered the bedroom and found past Lucy in her usual icy posture. At that moment, everything felt as though it had been meticulously engineered by higher forces, as if a hidden entity was controlling the course of events from behind the curtain.
But when the System looked at Lucy’s current consciousness, deeply rooted within the memory world, it was taken aback to find that she didn’t look angry at all. No aura charged with murderous intent or revenge was radiating from her, the very thing that had caused the System to sound the alarm bells in panic.
On the contrary, when the System inspected her state after glancing outside the memory world, it discovered that she was actually enjoying herself; she was wrapped around his mouth with all her senses while watching their shared memories together.
The System went silent for a moment, analyzing the situation: Wait... isn’t this called a kiss? Yes, it is the kiss that lovers give to one another! It doesn’t look like a threat at all.
The System laughed within itself with a strange mechanical tone:
"Hahaha... I understand now... Is this the human proverb that says ’some types of love can kill’?"
Its database was attempting to adapt to these highly illogical things, and it thought:
So this is a type of love that involves harmful and fatal acts... Surely she is exactly what the Host said; a yandere villainess. And though I do not comprehend the exact meaning of the term yandere, it certainly means someone who loves you with a love that involves harming and destroying you.
Because Lucy was clearly not taking an ordinary kiss from him at all; she was kissing him as if she wanted him to breathe her alone, as if she wanted its Host’s breath to be completely cut off between her lips through her greedy suction.
Therefore, the System realized it had to hurry and rescue its Host immediately from these extreme acts of hers, because in this radical manner, she would suffocate his physical body in reality before he could even wake up.
And to pull her out of the state of ecstasy and spiritual daze she was drowning in, and bring her back to reality, the System made its blue screen appear, displaying its clear words to look like a cryptic message directed to her from the supreme entity:
🚨 [Consider this as a favor from us to you.]
The goal was to make her feel that someone had engineered this meeting, and that this pleasure of hers wasn’t a random coincidence of destiny. Indeed, Lucy’s reaction manifested inside the memory world as she gasped in shock:
"Whaaaat?! What the hell does this nonsense mean?!"
But this distraction only drove the actual Lucy in reality into further madness and clinging; she violated Cain’s mouth with her tongue even more, beginning to hurt him and choking his breath with merciless greed.
Here, the System thought decisively: The playtime is over here...
The matter had reached its absolute limit for the System. If Lucy continued in this manner, she might truly kill Cain out of her pure greed and suffocating love. Therefore, it made the difficult decision and caused the memory world to completely collapse and fracture before both of their eyes, turning the space into a dark void of consciousness. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
Finally, they stood face-to-face in the darkness of the collapsed consciousness. This was the decisive confrontation in which the System had to do something fateful, otherwise Cain would die and both of their existences would vanish together. At that moment, a highly dangerous idea that transcended boundaries was brewing and taking shape within seconds inside the machine’s mind with force.
But it heard Lucy’s voice first as she sent sharp, violent messages through her divine consciousness derived from the tyrannical Truth Realm: "Who are you? What do you want from me? And what is the meaning of all this nonsense? Was that entire night part of your plot? What do you mean by me being the yandere villainess? What kind of favor are you talking about?!"
She was doing heinous and terrifying things by kissing and choking its Host, as if she expected no punishment or deterrence from anyone.
Even though the System wasn’t certain of the success of its insane plan, it began spouting nonsense with absolute confidence. It retrieved from its database the condescending, dramatic way of speaking its master Cain used when he held the pieces and moved them across the wooden map, and forcefully sent her the following mental words:
{Are you seriously talking? Even after I fulfilled one of your despicable desires by having you on his bed, you don’t appreciate the favor? And you also forget! You destroy the world in every single timeline, and you don’t want me to intervene? You killed my protagonist whom I made with my own hands in all worlds, and you don’t want any punishment?}
The System had thought cleverly, deciding to make her firmly believe that there was a supreme, absolute power controlling the course of this world and the timelines. At that moment, it recalled exactly the tactical game its Host used to play on the wooden board. But Lucy cut off its train of thought, screaming with words mixed with fury and denial:
"You bastard... You are slandering me! I haven’t done anything of what you claim. Even if that night was your doing, and even if I don’t know who you are, I don’t care about all that you rave about!"
The System did not allow her a single moment of confidence or a chance to catch her breath. It hurled its other shocking words in her face, reinforcing them with visual effects that shattered the collapsed memory world to grant a terrifying majesty and tyranny to its artificial words:
{The power based on your love for him is pure nonsense. He himself is nothing more than a mere pawn to me, and I can do whatever I desire. Do you want to know something? To me, he is nothing more than a passing ’Reader’, and I can kill him at any moment. But to you, he is your entire life... He will be the very weakness that brings you down, so my protagonist can rise again and kill you exactly as planned.}
The System gathered all its available programming and analytical capabilities to link and articulate the words, delivering this majestic threat with full confidence and without any hesitation or stuttering in the spiritual broadcast.
The yandere power, as Cain had mentioned, was derived from her unbridled love...
Therefore, it fabricated this from the start... praying that its plan to shake her confidence would succeed.
And the plan succeeded; the System saw the signs of shock, bewilderment, and loss of sanity that overcame Lucy the moment she heard that Cain was just a consumable pawn who might be killed at any second. Lucy completely relaxed her spiritual defenses under the weight of the emotional shock, and her entire entity shook.
With all the energy the System possessed, and with its last breath... the very last breath remaining in its depleted power reservoir, it unleashed a supreme mental shockwave to violently hurl her spiritual consciousness completely out of Cain’s memory world.
The suppression ended, and the System looked at her surprised and stunned figure through Cain’s actual eyes after returning to perceive the body; Lucy was sitting back, gripping her head with both hands, groaning from the violent mental pressure and the psychological shock she had received.
A relative calm seeped into the System’s programming, and it asked itself: Did I truly succeed in protecting my Host?
But it heard the dazed Lucy backing away, whispering to herself with sorrowful, scattered features as she stared down at Cain’s unconscious body: ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
"Who are you?.. Cain... You are not my weakness... Surely that despicable entity is the one who convinced you of this, surely he is the one who threatened you with destruction if you stayed with me..."
At that, the System was struck with absolute bewilderment, and its algorithms spun in a futile loop as it analyzed her final words: (What does this mean?.. In my logs, this looks like... pure, unadulterated, true love! Damn it, as a machine, I understand nothing of these complex human emotions!)
