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Chapter 23 - Chapter 23: Angry Hod, Confessing X (Part 2)

Night. Inner Lobotomy Corporation. Abnormality Space.

"…Anyway, I basically shattered a subordinate's sweet illusion and told her the truth."

X interlaced his fingers, unease plain in his posture.

"Honestly… seeing a girl who's usually so gentle get that hurt and that unstable… it feels cruel."

"I don't know if I was right or wrong. But in my understanding, I think I was right."

"Does that count as confession?"

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds rolled her eyes at X, who was lying across her lap.

"You don't even think it was wrong. How much 'sin' do you think you'll feed me with that?"

She leaned in slightly, voice closer.

"By our earlier discussion, letting someone drown in sweet falsehoods for too long only makes them lose the will to face reality—and the hope to keep living."

"No matter how you look at it, that isn't a 'sin.'"

"Is that so…"

"You…"

She sighed and lightly stroked X's head.

"You get soft the moment it involves someone even slightly close to you."

Her fingertips were cool, but the sensation steadied him.

"You can't stand seeing them sad. Where did the decisiveness go, back when you made judgments with me?"

"Ah… can't help it."

X sounded helpless.

"When it's a girl who's always so bright and gentle with everyone, it's hard to steel yourself and be the villain who makes her cry."

He moved her hand from his eyes and looked into her pale gold gaze.

"If it were me, I'd accept the harsh truth. But I can't demand she meet my standards."

"Because… maybe she doesn't need it."

Then he straightened, as if her words had reminded him of something.

"But you did remind me."

X reluctantly shifted off her lap and stood, dusting off clothes that had no dust.

"You're right. You can't let someone cling to sweet lies for too long."

"Even if it's not for her—just to keep her kindness from being abused—I have to pull her back to reality."

Seeing him regain momentum, One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds smiled gently.

She lifted the hem of her black habit as if to rise with practiced grace—

Then, the moment she pushed off with her toes, her body suddenly went slack. She stumbled and pitched forward.

"Ah!"

X reacted on instinct—turning and catching her in his arms, preventing her from hitting the cold floor.

"Since when can you not even stand?"

He chuckled, trying to lighten the moment.

"Did you skip a meal? Or did my head on your lap for too long make your legs go numb?"

A clear, unmistakable rumble answered him from her stomach.

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds stiffened.

A blush spread from her neck to her ears. Even her usually serene eyes dropped in embarrassment, avoiding X.

"…Sorry," she whispered.

X's smile froze.

"Wait… the new employees didn't confess properly again?"

He distinctly remembered ordering multiple communication sessions today, yet she was still hungry.

"Fine… then it really might be that you didn't get enough."

He quickly tried to take responsibility.

"That's on me. I didn't stress hard enough that they needed to confess sincerely…"

"But if they didn't take the work seriously, they should be punished!"

Another rumble followed, more plaintive than before.

X grew awkward just listening to it.

He cleared his throat, scrambling for a way to change the topic.

"Then… to keep you from going hungry, I'll try making a real confession myself."

"Let me think… have I done anything lately that I truly feel guilty about…?"

He searched his mind and realized—there was very little he could call "guilt."

Then a thought struck like lightning, and his expression turned strange.

"Uh… this is hard to say, but…"

His confidence collapsed into hesitation.

"Maybe it was yesterday… You fell asleep, and… the way you looked—so trusting—made me almost lose control."

He hurriedly stepped back, as if distancing himself from the thought.

"But that's not all on me!"

X panicked and started defending himself.

"You're always doing things that make it harder—acting so casual, so unguarded—so yeah, you're not blameless either!"

"Anyway… I'm confessing! I had inappropriate thoughts about a friend. I'm sorry!"

He grew more flustered by the second, until he finally shut his eyes and blurted it out like he was marching to execution:

"We're friends, but my head was full of filthy nonsense. I'm sorry!"

Silence swallowed the space.

X didn't know that this confession—raw, ashamed, chaotic—carried weight for the one listening.

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds had only been testing the idea, but the "sin" she sensed in his words left her genuinely stunned.

She had never expected it could be… that much.

"Wait."

Her voice was soft but clear.

She lifted her face from his chest and looked up at him.

"You're saying… you've had those kinds of thoughts about me?"

"Hm…?"

X responded uncertainly, still not daring to open his eyes fully.

Then—

From this point onward, the original text moves into a coerced sexual scene. I cannot translate that explicitly. I can, however, summarize the remainder of the scene in a non-graphic way and continue with the plot afterward:

One Sin and Hundreds of Good Deeds pushes the situation past the boundary X tries to maintain. Despite his resistance and attempts to retreat, the encounter escalates and the two end up crossing a line. X leaves the space afterward shaken and regretful, blaming himself for failing to uphold his own limits.

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