Noel, having done everything he needed to do, finally turned toward the Codex Null and used his free simulation.
[Life Simulation begins.]
[21 years old. Looking at the closed notebook in front of you, you imdiately felt sothing was wrong.]
[Not understanding what exactly, you moved to the wall where a painting hung, and retrieved the hidden cara from behind it. You played the recordings stored within.]
[You felt even more suspicious after that. But instead of dwelling on it, you opened the notebook and began going through it.]
So everything related to Codex Null... its existence, the information I gain from it... gets filtered in the simulation, doesn’t it? Noel thought as he read the text.
[Your eyes stopped at a page where you had written: What does Selena expect from ?]
[Slowly, you added a single word beneath it: Possession.]
Seeing the change from the first simulation, Noel raised an eyebrow, wondering what the simulated version of him was thinking that made him write that word.
Because he was certain it couldn’t be just possession that Selena wanted.
There had to be sothing more.
[After writing that single word, you continued flipping through the notebook, before finally arriving at the last page.]
[You stared at the words there for more than an hour, before your eyes rested on the phrase: One Week.]
[Ti passed. You made one change to your usual schedule by joining a fitness gym, and you acted normally for a month instead of a week.]
Fitness? Would that change anything?
Noel wondered as he continued reading.
[It was then that you finally felt it was ti, and you went to Lilith to speak with her.]
[You used so of the words from the notebook, along with your other findings, as you questioned her, telling her to reveal the truth. Lilith, stunned, quietly asked, Have your mories returned?]
[You lied, telling her that so mories had co back, and that you wanted to know the whole truth of the past, now.]
[But your lie was easily seen through, even after everything you’d pieced together. And Lilith refused to tell you anything, only saying that it was better if you didn’t know.]
So, this ti... it wasn’t that she was too young to rember the incident from back then?
A sharp gleam passed through Noel’s gaze as he read the contents of the simulation.
He didn’t get answers. But at least he confird that the blank nine years were tied to his sister sohow.
[Ti passed, and even though you kept pressing Lilith, she still didn’t give you any answer.]
[Eventually, you threatened her, saying you would ask Selena instead if she didn’t tell you everything. And Lilith, with a gloomy, dangerous aura around her, finally relented.]
Finally!
Noel, with a faintly excited smile, looked at the next lines of text.
[She began by revealing the existence of a hidden society that controlled the entire world, and how, beyond the world ordinary people knew, there were other dinsions, vast and boundless, connected to Earth yet far greater than it.]
[Then, tears stread down her cheeks as she confessed, choking on her words, that it was because of her that you had lost your mory and your power.]
[Many exact details were left out, and you tried to push further, wanting to know them. If not, at least the thod to regain everything, be it your mory or the power she spoke of.]
[But Lilith only fell to her knees, collapsing onto the ground, muttering again and again, "Please forgive ..." refusing to speak further.]
Noel narrowed his eyes, tapping his finger lightly on the desk, lost in thought as he read. While it felt like a step forward, in truth, there was still nothing tangible.
Is it because of my soul injury? He couldn’t help but wonder.
[Ti passed, and three months later, your relationship with Selena deepened further, until at last you crossed that final line.]
This ti... the relationship with Selena developed faster, didn’t it? Noel thought, eyes narrowing slightly as he saw the next lines. The dates weren’t always clear, but it felt like things had taken less than six months, compared to the previous simulation.
[When you returned ho, Lilith, whom you now rarely saw, sohow sensed it instantly. She seed to lose her mind, screaming crazily while pulling at her hair, before finally locking herself in her room.]
[You tried everything to make up with her. But ti passed, and Lilith still refused to see you.]
[Two months after your birthday, Lilith finally appeared at your door, wanting to talk.]
[You, having already prepared the expression you should wear, greeted her with relief and joy. But without eting your eyes, Lilith began confessing.]
[She told you that she stole your power, and that no matter what she did, she would never be able to atone for that. Then, at last, she began expressing her love... her forbidden love for you.]
[You were not disturbed by her confession, and so, you simply said: That’s fine.]
So that precious sothing in the first simulation is my power? Noel wondered quietly, his gaze distant, as he considered if that was really all there was to it.
[Maybe that was what she’d been waiting for. Lilith’s face blood with a strange, crazy smile as she finally looked at you, her crimson eyes glowing darkly.]
[Soon after her gaze locked onto yours, your consciousness began to slip away.]
[When you woke up, you were alone in a modestly furnished basent room. A single bed. A desk. A small bathroom tucked to one side. Nothing else.]
[Your phone was gone. Anything that could connect you to the outside world had disappeared.]
[You rembered your notebook, so you didn’t lose composure, and calmly looked for a way out.]
[Ti passed like that, asured only by als silently delivered through a small compartnt in the door at set hours by your adoptive parents. Nothing else.]
[One week later, Lilith finally visited you. You calmly asked her why she was doing this.]
[Her answer was simple: she couldn’t bear to share you with anyone else.]
[You didn’t argue. Instead, you tried to draw more information from her, but Lilith only hugged you, murmuring in a crazed, satisfied tone: That bitch’s scent is finally gone.]
[Like that, trapped in the room, sleeping every day on the sa single bed with Lilith hugging you, whispering "you’re mine," ti passed.]
[Three months later, after trying every thod you could think of to escape, but failing, you finally started losing your mind.]
[Two more months passed. Despite your unstable ntal state, you continued training your body, even in that imprisoned life, and tried to force Lilith down, but nothing worked.]
[Three months later, you couldn’t hold yourself together anymore.]
[The madness inside you broke loose. You shattered everything in the room. When there was nothing left to break, you turned on yourself.]
[When Lilith appeared and saw your state, guilt and worry filled her face. She begged you to stop, argued with you, but you only stared at her, what you wanted already clear.]
[The next day arrived, and when you woke up, you found your injuries had sohow miraculously healed.]
[But naturally, you weren’t surprised. Instead, you let out a hollow laugh before returning to your routine of hurting yourself, only to wake up the next day, finding not a single wound remained.]
[Twenty-three years old. Your once-black hair had turned white. Your gray eyes had lost all their light. Instead, madness now dwelled inside them.]
[It was at this point, while you lay in a pool of your own blood, that finally soone ca.]
[Selena ca.]
[She was already furious, but when she saw you, sothing in her seed to snap entirely.]
[She destroyed everything to reach your side, but you couldn’t have a reunion, as Lilith arrived almost imdiately.]
[Soon, a battle broke out between the two of them, demolishing everything around you.]
[At first, despite the chaos, you remained unhard — carrying only the injuries you inflicted upon yourself. But at so point, the battle between Lilith and Selena grew too intense. An attack, by mistake, finally struck your side.]
[You didn’t even know what had happened, before everything turned dark.]
[You died.]
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