Ace Punched the System Away

Blurb

[He sent her to kiss someone else with his own hands, yet she gave up her life for him.]

After transmigrating as the heroine of a conquest novel, Keke's mission is to make Fire Fist Ace fall in love with her.

She succeeds.

But when the System forcibly changes her target to Luffy, she refuses.

So her five senses are stripped away one by one.

As Ace carries her, deprived of sight, hearing, smell, and taste, toward Luffy to complete the "kissing mission"

She uses the last of her sense of touch to struggle and slap him.

System notification: Mission failed. Player Keke, sensory deprivation complete. Death confirmed.

The moment she hit the ground, Ace's world collapsed completely.

He seized the so-called "System" like a madman, only to learn an even crueler truth:

His life was just a manga, and his death had long been set in stone.

And the girl who died for him was nothing more than a stand-in sent into this world by a fanfiction author from a higher-dimensional world, a woman paralyzed in bed.

Later, Ace tore through the walls between worlds.

He found the golden-haired girl, now living under a different identity and trying to win over "Yonko" Shanks, and trapped her in his arms. His voice was hoarse as he asked:

"Why... are you afraid to love me again?"

She looked at him, her eyes as weary as if she'd endured a thousand lifetimes of reincarnation.

"Because writing fanfiction about you is destined to end in a bad ending."

"And I'm tired of writing it."

[Reader's Guide and Warnings]

Style warning: It looks like a System conquest story on the outside, but inside it's a philosophical nuclear bomb. Sugar coated in shards of glass, with poison running through the shards.

Male lead: Ace. He'll awaken later, go mad, and imprison a god.

Female lead: Keke. Not a perfect heroine, but a clear-eyed madwoman, a coward who can love but is even better at running away.

Core plot: I make myself go kill me, I watch myself reincarnate for me, I force myself to admit that I love me.

Ending: Bad ending/tragic ending (true ending). The male lead won't change, but both leads are destroyed by fate.

One-line summary: The character I wrote died for me out of love.

Author's note and reader's guide:

1. An anti-System conquest story.

2. Keke: She's not an angel sent to redeem Ace, but a "patient" who can't even save herself. She's paralyzed in the real world and goes mad in the mission world. Her love is mixed with the urge to create, escapism, and self-destructive tendencies. Ace: At first, he's the sunny, unloved boy from the original work. Later, he becomes a "tyrant who learns the script." He'll turn dark, grow obsessive, and use every means at his disposal to keep the fleeing "author" in his story forever.

3. Readers looking for a happy ending, a sugary romance, or pure redemption should absolutely stop here.

4. Thank you for opening this story. It may not be all that "satisfying," but it's my most sincere reflection on "love and freedom." If you've ever pondered the boundary between reality and illusion late at night, or felt unresolved grief over a fictional character, perhaps this story will resonate deeply with you.

Theme: Imagine a fictional soul gaining a will of its own, and the god who created it shedding tears. We love each other not to change the ending fate has decreed, but to carve a name belonging to "me," not a "character," into the ending already written.