One Punch Simulator

Extra chapter 12: You will not escape

For the first time in her short life, Ryoba felt something. A yearning, a desire, a passion. It was that boy, Muko Suzuki. She had to protect him no matter what. He was the thing that made her feel alive. He was the only thing that made her feel... anything at all.

She didn't want him. She needed him.

"Would you describe your feelings as love?"

Ryoba blinked. She stared at the doctor seated in front of her - Dr. Genus was his name. He had been her doctor ever since she could remember. Her father had insisted she needed a doctor due to her condition, and so there he was.

Dr. Genus was an unusual man; a youthful face, but the wisdom in his eyes seemed to reach far beyond his years. He also seemed to have never aged throughout her entire life. Not to mention he had a strange amount of ties with the CEO of Saikou Corp.

If Ryoba had been a normal person, such facts would've befuddled her. But of course, she was not a normal person.

"Love," Ryoba repeated, wringing her hands together, shoe digging into her school skirt. "I don't know... I just... need him..."

"I see," Dr. Genus wrote something down on his clipboard. "And this is the first time you've truly felt something, isn't it?"

Ryoba nodded. "I guess it is."

Dr. Genus bit the lid of his pen after a moment of silence. "Miss Aishi, are you still having those dreams?"

Ryoba blinked. The dreams, of course. Every few nights, she had rather unusual dreams. Dreams of a distorted figure in front of her, surrounded by glowing red lines, stuck in some kind of void. She wasn't sure what it meant, or what the creature was. But she had an... intuition that she was connected to it somehow. Ironically, she felt more connected to it than her own parents.

"Yes," she nodded.

"And was it the same as always?" Dr. Genus asked.

Ryoba blinked, slowly. Suddenly, with a flash, she remembered. A voice, echoing deep into her mind, ebbing her feelings...

"No," she said. "The creature spoke to me."

"Destroy them... make them pay..."

Ryoba's eyes were glazed over. "Destroy them...?"

"Humanity must be punished..." the figure hissed. "Destroy them..."

Ryoba blinked at her hands. The figure continued to glitch. Dust and wind swirled around it.

"But if I destroy humanity, it means I'll destroy... him," Ryoba realised. "My senpai."

"Humanity is failing," the creature spoke. "They are destroying the Earth I created. It's your job to remove them."

"The Earth you created?" Ryoba asked. "Are you... God?"

"Some call me that," the figure replied. "I created your kind, too, Ryoba Aishi. The Yanderes."

Ryoba didn't say anything.

"Destroy humanity," God told her. "That is why you were created."

"I refuse," Ryoba turned away. "I won't kill my senpai. He is the only thing that makes me feel alive. I need him."

"It's meaningless," God told her. "Even if you deny this fate, another shall take it for you. You will not escape."