“That stench on her, you’d think she *wants* people to know she’s diseased? Are you trying to disgust me on purpose? Get out!”
Chloe didn’t even get a chance to speak before she was kicked out of the private room.
She sat alone by the roadside, crying for half the night until dawn.
The next day, I went to class as usual.
As I reached the classroom door, I saw Chloe already waiting there.
The moment she saw me, she dropped to her knees in front of me.
“Riley! Please! Please let me go!”
“I know it’s you, I know you cracked the system… You gave all those diseases to me… Please let me go, I’m begging you on my knees, isn’t that enough? I really can’t take it anymore…”
I pretended to be clueless and quickly helped her up.
“What are you doing? What did *I* do?”
She looked at me in despair.
“You know… You clearly know! It’s that system… you reverse–bound the system, didn’t you?”
I looked at her, confused.
“System? What system?”
She had no choice. Right there in front of me, she desperately rambled, explaining the system’s mechanics from beginning to end.
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I widened my eyes. “Something like that exists?”
“So that means if I get hurt or sick, it will all transfer to you?”
She could only cry and nod.
I looked at her, then pulled a utility knife from my backpack.
And then, right in front of everyone watching, I didn’t hesitate to cut a gash on my own arm.
Blood immediately welled up and dripped onto the floor.
I raised my arm. “Tell me, does it hurt?”
I raised my arm. “Tell me, does it hurt?”
She froze, her entire face drained of color.
She didn’t dare speak, because she didn’t feel any pain at all.
The pain hadn’t transferred.
I smiled. “Didn’t you say we were bound? So if I get hurt, shouldn’t you feel it?”
She was completely stunned, looking at her own arm.
She had no idea what was going on.
Why? It should have been me who cracked the system and transferred *my* pain to *her*.
I said calmly,
“Looks like all that system transfer talk you’re spouting is just nonsense.”
