TWENTY SEVEN.

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First comes the warning

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First comes the warning.

Y/n looks at it incredulously.

[ SYSTEM WARNING: A hidden event has been triggered for breaking the canon!

Failure: Death ]

Breaking the canon! Isn't he supposed to? Is the system glitching?

And another hidden event. Somehow, Y/n notices a slight pattern. Strangely enough, the hidden events appear when he successfully breaks the timeline. Such as when the vines appeared...

Y/n shakes his head, casting all negative thoughts out of his mind. Though the words death appear in most of the events popping up, this feels ominous. Like an imminent threat. And now when he squints, these hidden events pop up...

Weren't they a different color? Different from the ones telling him to break the timeline. Different from the ones telling him he failed to stop an event.

And it is also peculiar how Iris constantly disappears when a hidden event occurs.

Y/n looks around him. He is currently at the Aragon Family Manor, unlike the previous occurrences which were at the academy. It is all peaceful. Everything is quiet. So what does it mean by trigger...?

Unless it is happening elsewhere.

Perhaps, he thinks, these hidden events are somehow connected to Iris. She has been manipulating him, causing him harm, and erasing his memories. Could she be the source of these warnings? Is she trying to maintain the game's "canon" and prevent him from disrupting it further?

Y/n feels a chill run down his spine. If these hidden events are indeed tied to Iris, it means that she holds a significant amount of power within this virtual world. And her intentions remain shrouded in mystery.

Wait...

Now that he thinks about it—now that he actually thinks about it...

"Iris." Y/n swallows, "Iris."

Please. Don't let it be the truth. Don't.

[Ugh! What!]

She sounds on edge. Trembling. Jittery. She sounds guilty. Like she just did something...

No.

.

.

No.

.

.

Because that would mean... Everything that he has done... Everything that has happened...

But what would get her to admit it? The terrifying new theory that has just popped up in his head is too much to actually form in his head—it is too much for him to think. Because then it would be his fault. Every single trouble that happens, would be his fault.

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