Reverberation Rules: Completionist's Revenge

Name: Reverberation Rules: Completionist's Revenge
Author: Carambola Flavored Soda

by Carambola Flavored Soda

ongoing Suspense and Supernatural Weird Stories About Rules Male Lead

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The first time I smelled the collapse of rules was the day Lin Wei pushed me into the arms of Night Devourer. The fishy smell was like rust mixed with corpse oil, wrapped in my blood between her fingernails - she had just snatched away my newly awakened "Complete System", then turned around and sold me to Zhao Lei, who was wearing black armor. The moonlight at the entrance of the alley shattered on her face, like the world that collapsed three hundred years ago, with "Either eat or be eaten" written on every crack. Lao Zhou squatted on the beam of the dilapidated building. Two fingers were missing from his right hand. The sound of the bone stick poking the ground was like knocking my bones: "Boy, rules are the bones of the world. When they are broken, only ghosts remain. The black lines on your left hand are the rules that are biting you, but you are the first to bear it - make up the fragments, and you will either survive or become the fragments themselves." I clutched the fragment of the rules of existence that I snatched from the Night Eater's mouth. It was as cold as the wedding ring she broke three months ago. Hidden in the fragments was the blood of the person who completed the task three hundred years ago, as well as Lin Wei's smile - her plundering system made gray snakes crawl on the left side of her face. Her fingernails could take away other people's memories, but they couldn't take away the look in her eyes when she pushed me. Later I understood: I am not an abandoned child, I am the only one who can put the pieces back together into the world. But when the last piece of "Final Rules" was put into place, I saw the price-- I want to become the rule itself, trapped in the reverberation forever, and even the push she gave me will be ground into dust by time. The old locust tree at the entrance of the alley is still there, with the name of the completer engraved on the trunk, and the last line is empty. Lao Zhou's bone staff was leaning against the tree. The blue crystals on the head of the staff were as bright as my eyes - but I could no longer remember whether Lin Wei's face was crying or smiling.