CHAPTER FOURTEEN

What's a System and why does it want to 'delete' me?!

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“I’m sorry that I worried you but I’ll be fine real soon

But it has been one hell of a difficult afternoon”

Twig tried to smile and comfort those who stared at him in grief

But found his face could not express a morsel of relief

Tears began to stream down his face faster and faster

He felt his life was just disaster after disaster

The meeting ended up being postponed for the evening

Twig being alive was sufficiently relieving

His family all took turns holding onto him so tight

That he thought his head might just burst but still it felt alright

He’d never been so happy to see all of their faces

And by the time morning came they had traded places

His father was the biggest crybaby of the whole lot

But if he’d cried more in the past, his wife must have forgot

The family all tried to comfort him and by midday

They’d all exhausted themselves crying half the day away

~ Name: Log ~

Title: Crybaby Hero

Class: Hunter [lv137]

HP

[197]

MANA

[58]

ATK

[213]

INT

[19⇨ 22]

DEF

[146]

SPD

[64]

Log, your son is lucky to have a father like you

But if you don’t stop crying I don’t know what I’ll do

Maybe more intelligence will help to clear your head

If you dehydrate too much you might just end up dead

~ Name: Delilah ~

Title: Sword Master

Class: Knight [lv104]

HP

[183]

MANA

[86]

ATK

[241]

INT

[88]

DEF

[132]

SPD

[261]

Hey there Delilah, your husband’s having a rough day

Guess it’s up to you to try and sweep despair away

Help your son get back on his feet, he has two of them

He still has a hand to hold a sword in, no problem

His mother and his father both received such status screens

They’d do there best to help him as long as they had the means

They sent his sisters home after they’d said what came to mind

And Twig assured them they could now leave their worries behind

“Twig, it’s been a strange day but we really need to know

What happened out there, and where did your status screen go”

His mother's was the sharpest sword of of all the town's fighters

And she spoke to her son like she spoke to her followers

The healer came back into the room once the crown had gone

And he could continue the quest which he was now on

"Tell me what you know about the nature of your soul

You practically came back from the dead, did fate play a role?"

Twig clear his head and rubbed the stump where his left hand should be

And looked from his parents to the healer, struggling to see

“I guess I don’t have anything to hide, but where to start

I’ll tell you what I saw after I was stabbed through the heart”

System Message

Warning, this soul entity is no longer in sync

Sharing outside knowledge could cause more harm than you think

Withhold any information you have come to learn

Current status is now impossible to discern

Twig looked for a moment in confusion at the screen

“Wait a moment, what does ‘System Message’ even mean?

Sharing outside knowledge could cause more harm than you think”

But when he said that, what he saw next made his young heart sink

System Message

Withhold knowledge of the realm which mortals shouldn’t know

If you love your family, tell them you must now go

System is unable to reintegrate your soul

But full deletion would result in far too great a hole

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