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Chapter 4

Author: Moonlit Crescent
[Warning! Target affection rating collapsing!]

[Current rating: minus 50.]

[Current rating: minus 100.]

[Extreme resentment detected. Affection rating has hit rock bottom.]

Mom lunged at me. She grabbed my collar, slamming my head against the concrete wall.

"How dare you show your face here?!" she shrieked. "Why did you do this to her?!"

"The doctor said her heart is failing! She could die any second!

"Why her?! Why couldn't it be you in that hospital bed?!"

Mom shook me wildly, her eyes wide and bloodshot.

Then she saw the folded piece of scrap paper in my pocket.

She snatched the drawing, tore it to shreds, and hurled the scraps straight at my face.

"Who told you to draw this garbage?! You want your sister dead, don't you?! Why couldn't it be you?! Why don't you just die?!"

Every vicious word cut straight into my soul.

Inside my head, the system sounded a deafening alarm.

[Tick-clack-tick-clack!]

[Target affection has dropped past the minimum threshold.]

[Due to extreme hatred, Mother will abandon host permanently upon her daughter's death.]

[Emergency exchange unlocked: Target life span has expired. Terminal state reached.]

[Host may trade all remaining life to swap fates with target, absorbing all illness and cause of death.]

[Host remaining life span: 49 years.]

[Swap cost: Entire remaining 49 years. Upon completion, the host will die within three days.]

[Confirm swap?]

The surgery doors burst open.

The doctor walked out, shaking his head with a heavy sigh.

"I'm so sorry. Her heart rate is dropping rapidly. None of the medication is working. She won't survive the night."

Mom collapsed to the floor, letting out a gut-wrenching scream.

Dad dropped to his knees beside her, pounding his chest in agony.

The hallway echoed with unbearable grief.

Mom sat amidst the torn scraps of paper, rocking back and forth, weeping hysterical prayers.

"Take my life instead! Please, just give me back my baby girl! Why couldn't it be the other one?! Why my poor sweet girl?!"

I stood there, watching Mom on her knees.

She wept so hard her entire body convulsed.

She had never shed a single tear for me.

To her, I was just a burden. Lily was her entire world.

If Lily died, this family would shatter. Mom would go completely insane.

I reached out with a trembling hand, gently tugging at her tear-soaked sleeve.

In my mind, I whispered softly, ‘I confirm. Give her all my time.’

[Command confirmed. Deducting all 49 years of host life span. Transferring fate.]

[Fate transfer in progress…]

[Host countdown to death: 72 hours.]

The ticking inside my mind went completely silent.

A nurse gasped, sprinting out from the operating room.

"Doctor! Her heart rate is back! Her vitals are stabilizing!"

The doctor froze, then scrambled back inside the room.

Dad and Mom scrambled off the floor, crying hysterically as they threw their arms around each other.

"She made it! Our baby survived! Thank God!"

Neither of them looked at me.

I slowly let go of Mom's sleeve and took two steps back into the shadows.

"Mom... I gave you my whole life this time. Am I perfect now?"

The hallway was loud with their tears, but nobody gave me an answer.

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