'Hmm, I wonder what the system wanted to say. It is quite interesting how I am more curious about this than my past lover or future lover. I don't know.'
'The system said the one I yearn for is alive, but it did not say how, which means most likely she transmigrated like me but she died 5 years prior... Did she transmigrate then or before or after?'
"Arghh... It's so confusing" I spoke while feeling frustrated as I did not know what had happened to her.
"Hey system, aren't you going to give me a gift? Or some quest like do 10 push ups and breakthrough A-rank or something as a reward?" I chided the system and waited for a prompt only to be met with silence for five minutes straight, frustrated I was about to curse the 18 generations of the system as well as its creator but just then...
[———————System Notification———————
Forced Main Quest Triggered!!!!
Quest: Find your destined one and solve your regrets
Reward: Host's beloved by host's side
Penalty: Host will regret it
Failure Condition: 1) Host's death; 2) Her Death; 3) Host choosing someone else than her; 4) Her choosing someone else than the host; 5) World's destruction
Tip: Host will try to find her even without the quest so just take it as a warning and a gift]
"F**K!? WTF is this?? I get the first and the third condition but the second and fourth aren't under my control. Trusting in her, the fourth condition is okay but WTF is with the second one and the most insane fifth one?" I screamed my words out feeling bitter.
"This fifth condition is freaking me out, surely I know the world gets destroyed if the protagonist fails, so if I want to find 'her', I have to help the protagonist grow... means my academy arc is coming for sure" I muttered under my breath feeling conflicted.
"I mean yeah, the tip is right I would've looked for her even if the system may have given me false hope, it's enough for me to live for a few years and search for her but this quest just confirms it. Plus looking at the reward and penalty, I am sure this system is not like those cheats but something else" I continued in the same bitter tone hoping for an answer but the answer shocked me.
[The System has used a large amount of energy. The System wishes good luck to the host and goodbye. Hope we never meet again!]
Before I could even make out the meaning or respond, I fainted again. This time feeling as if my life was sucked out of me. Only now, did I realise that this system just gave me some stuff and left, like it or not, it really left me with a bitter aftertaste in my mouth.
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I was lost in my consciousness for a while and I felt something weird. All of Jarien's memories became extremely clear, be it from his future or past and even the novel's memory and my past life memories became very clear for the entire hour and I kept staring at them.
As soon as I woke up, I tried recalling every memory in my mind, but to my utter shock it was foggy. I, being an avid novel reader, knew this meant this is the price I pay for playing in someone else's palm.
So, using my fading memories, I hurriedly started writing main events and outlines that I could remember about this world and my lover because other memories weren't that important and I knew forgetting them will pain me but at least this will ensure my future plans and survival for the next 5 years.
After 3 hours of scribbling in my previous world's language, I looked at my diary and read through the previous owner's entries. Well, I am him now so it didn't weigh on my conscience, plus I have done way worse than this, so no worries.
Though it is quite interesting how I can understand this world's language without a hitch as if I have been using it for my whole life. At least that makes my life easier as anyone would think of me as weird if I suddenly lost my ability to speak the same language that I am supposedly fluent in.
Finally, after two hours of reading the old and new entries, I thought of my next steps as I am pretty sure my fainting might mess up the start itself which I can't allow. But why is no one coming to check on me, I am pretty sure I have been awake since the past 6 hours.
From my diary, I know how much Jarien is loved and his genius too and even the fact that he wasn't an idiot who'd want to die when his family was trying to find solutions to his low potential unlike his sister Evelyn who never figured it out.
He was poisoned by one of the dogs who wanted praise from Evelyn not realising even she didn't dare to go that far and now that guy is hiding afraid that someone will find him. Well, I don't really care.
Evelyn, my dear sister Evelyn, surely you would be worrying too about the healers discovering my lowest-tier and low-tier potion resistance. Huhuhuhu, I am definitely petty, I can see that everyone treated Evelyn like a princess yet she looked down on him upon his potential after his awakening.
In those times, when you should've supported your brother, you looked down on him because you were a child and he forgave you later on but I am petty, so I ain't doing what he did so I hope you're ready for me. Hehe.
"Shit! What happened to my personality? Why do I sound like a typical edgelord?... Hmm I should calm myself and get ready to meet his family and negotiate the punishment to my terms. I hope I don't see my dear sister there else who knows what I may do. And seeing my edgelord self, I definitely need time alone and some therapy" I said after realising about my evil villain-like monologue and suddenly got chills.
"Sigh, but why is no one coming to check on me?" I muttered under my breath and right this instant the door opened.
I saw a tall handsome man in his early twenties with sharp features and a well-built body hidden under his lean stature show up from the door staring at me with his mouth agape as if he'd seen a ghost.
I tried finding someone else by looking over him without moving so that I don't make it obvious. But to my bad luck, I found no one behind him so I just refocused on him.