The Alpha’s Rejected Mate의 모든 챕터: 챕터 161 - 챕터 170

“They doubt, and it weakens us.”The thought slipped from my mouth before I could stop it. I felt the pulse tremble under my hands. It had been steady for a moment. Warm. Alive.Now it flickered.I pressed both palms against the invisible current that linked me to the system. My breath came out slowly, but my chest felt tight.“Kieran,” I whispered. “Can you hear me?”For a moment there was only silence.Then a faint answer reached me, thin like a thread pulled too tight.“I… hear you.”My eyes closed. Relief rushed through me so fast it almost hurt.“You’re still there,” I said quickly. “Good. Stay with me. Don’t drift away again.”His voice trembled, as if every word cost him effort.“I’m trying.”The pulse flickered again. I felt it.Small. Weak.I clenched my teeth.“No,” I murmured. “Not again.”“What… is happening?” Kieran asked slowly.“Mortals,” I answered.My voice broke a little.“They are forgetting.”Silence followed. Then his voice returned, softer.“But they chose to rem

“They cannot erase what love builds.”I said the words out loud, not softly, not with doubt, but with a steady voice that refused to shake. I needed the truth of that sentence to stay strong. The pulse beneath my hands trembled again. It had been unstable since the Architect activated the emotional override.“Kieran,” I whispered. “Stay with me.”His voice came back slowly, strained but real. “I’m still here.”I closed my eyes in relief. “Good. I need you.”“I know.”The pulse flickered again. This time it was not just weak. It was chaotic. I could feel waves of emotion rushing through the system from the mortal world. Love. Fear. Anger. Doubt.All mixed together.“The Architect destabilized their emotions,” I said quietly. “He didn’t erase their memories. He twisted what they felt.”Kieran took a long pause before answering. “That is worse.”“Yes.”“Because love can turn into fear.”“And faith can turn into doubt.”The pulse dipped again. I felt it drop like a stone in deep water.“Ki

“No… not now.”The thought formed slowly, like a broken whisper drifting through a long tunnel. I did not know if I spoke it aloud or only inside what remained of my mind. The difference no longer felt clear.Everything felt distant.Everything felt thin.I tried to remember where I was.The system answered before the memory could return.A cold voice echoed through the core.“Stability loss detected.”The Architect.I tried to move toward the sound, but movement had no meaning here. I was not standing. I was not breathing. I was scattered across layers of code and memory that did not belong to a body.I tried to gather myself.The effort felt like pulling broken glass together with bare hands.“Nova…” I tried to say.The name fractured before it finished forming.Fragments of my voice drifted away like dust.“Signal degradation is increasing,” the Architect said calmly.I forced another thought forward.“No…”The system shifted.Pressure grew around my mind.I felt myself dissolving

“We fight. Together.”The words left Nova’s lips before fear could stop them.For a brief moment, no one spoke.The mortals around her were breathing hard. The pulse trembled between them like a fragile thread. Zones of the system had already collapsed. Pieces of memory flickered and vanished.But they were still here.Still holding on.Nova lifted her head slowly and looked at them.“We fight,” she repeated softly. “Together.”The older man stepped closer.“You sound certain.”Nova nodded once.“I am.”He studied her face.“You know the Architect is stronger than us.”“Yes.”“And you still want us to resist?”Nova met his gaze without hesitation.“I want you to remember who you are.”The younger man frowned slightly.“That sounds brave,” he said quietly. “But bravery does not stop deletion.”Nova gave a faint smile.“No. But unity might.”The woman who had anchored the confused man earlier folded her arms.“You are asking ordinary people to challenge a system that controls reality.”

“Hold on… hold on to me.”The words escaped Kieran before he even realized he had spoken them.His thoughts felt like scattered pieces of glass. Some memories were sharp and clear. Others were fading into silence. The system around his mind trembled as if it could collapse at any moment.But one signal still reached him.Nova.Her presence moved through the pulse like a steady heartbeat.“Kieran,” she whispered through the network. “Stay with me.”He forced his thoughts to gather.“I’m trying.”His voice sounded weak even to himself.Fragments of the system pushed against his mind. Commands. Errors. Resets. The Architect’s influence crawled through every layer.Kieran clenched his mental focus.“Nova… the erasure countdown has started.”“I know.”Her voice carried calm strength, but he felt the fear beneath it.“If it reaches completion,” Kieran continued slowly, “all collective memory structures collapse.”The silence that followed felt heavy.Nova finally spoke again.“Then we stop