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[System Notification: You have gained +3 Anxiety. Would you like to activate?] [Coping Mechanism: Pretend You're Dead]
"I would, System," Rei muttered under his breath, "but I doubt they'll fall for it a fourth time."
The marble tiles beneath him were cool ,refreshing, even that might've been because I was lying face-down on the floor of my bedroom in the middle of a nervous breakdown again.
Above him, yandere-induced chaos hummed faintly—Princess Seraphina and Drakana were arguing about whose romantic dinner proposal involved fewer assassination plots.
Rei was just about to consider faking a seizure when— A blinding golden light erupted in the room like someone set off a divine flashbang.
He blinked once, twice and then—"WELCOME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TO THIS EVENING'S SPECIAL EDITION OF—ERIS ANSWERS!"
Rei sat up so fast that he almost gave himself whiplash.
