02. Cheating Brother-In-Law

It seemed that Luna had heard something ridiculous, her mouth moved casually and a sneer formed, spitting out cold words:

"You are mad at me for shooting your cheating husband? Sister, I didn't expect you to be so in 'love'?"

The anxious and flustered female voice spoke again:

"Lunabelle, listen to my explanation, find me a person with a heart with the same blood type as Terrence right now! I love him and I need to save him!"

Luna sneered out again: "Laura, did you tell father about this? I only listen to father."

"How did you know..." The woman called Laura seemed to understand something, "Father ordered this? Did father order it!?"

Then came a few more curses and the sound of things being thrown to the ground.

Luna's expression didn't change, and she listened calmly as her sister broke the items in the office.

After a few breaths, the sister begged again:

"He treated you so well, Luna, please, I beg of you..save him..."

Luna's patience was finally exhausted:

"Did you forget why I backed down from the position you are in now, Laura? Why do you show me such a pitiful state of yourself."

A cold light flashed in Luna's eyes, and her voice became colder:

"You still remember how our mother was killed because you broke off the engagement for your cheating husband? You disgust me."

The woman called Laura lowered her head following her words, her body trembled slightly, and her voice was erratic:

"So you absolutely refuse to help my husband and let me go out of this office, do you?"

It was only at this moment that Luna felt something was vaguely wrong, and she turned around to face her sister:

"Yes, I have to listen to father."

The woman had raised her head, her face full of madness, and she held up the gun in her hand.

Before Luna could dodge, she was shot by her own sister, who had lost her mind.

Luna's body fell heavily to the ground, and her sister laughed wildly.

There is no silencer on the pistol, such a loud noise has long ago made people outside realize that something is wrong and they had broken in.

Of course, it was shocking to see such a scene.

The scene was chaotic, some people hurriedly called her father, and some people took the opportunity to stop her sister and kick the pistol aside.

Luna's sister didn't seem to notice what was going around her, just sat there blankly, staring blankly at her dead body.

Suspended above her corpse, Luna looked at the chaos around her.

Although her sister was acting so crazy, they both knew how to use guns from a young age.

This caused Luna to be directly hit in the head.

Luna didn't try to re-enter her body, it already had a see through hole in it's head, even if she comes back to life- she will be seen as a monster by this society.

Seeing her father enter the office, Luna turned to focus on what he was saying.

"You piece of shit, even though you killed that illegitimate tool³, why did you fucking kill her in such a public place?"

"Dad! Dad! She got me angry! Please save him.."

"Tch, you know how much I hate cheating. Your husband turned out to be just like Luna's mother, a fucking whore!"

"William, shut up everyone who saw Laura kill Luna right away.."

Luna listened as her father ordered someone on his phone.

No wonder her father didn't want to pass his company to her, because she wasn't the first daughter even though she was so capable?

Pfft, because she wasn't his daughter.

There's no use being angry, if she could, she wanted to kill these two fuckers and throw their bodies in a chemical lake to rot.

Slowly her vision seemed to be covered with a NSFW filter, blurring everyone.

She tried to focus on the sounds around her but her eyes seemed to stop working as well.

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In the endless darkness, a voice spoke.

[The Heroic League has welcomed Player 4013!]

[Pairing Player 4013 to Heroic System…]

At this time, the mechanic's voice changed to a cheerful young child's voice, it sounded annoying rather than being cute to her.

[Ding! Hello Player 4013, I am your Heroic System and I am here to inform you that you'll be transferred to your first task once you say the magical words, "Let's begin!"]

[Ding! As your guide and lovely system, I would love to create a wonderful working relationship with you!]

[Ding! Please ask me anything you have in mind!]

Luna rolled her imaginary eyes. It really deserved the old saying: there is no worst, only worse.

She had lived for nearly twenty-five years but had never come across this thing called good luck.

The voice of the system suddenly popped up again,

[Ding! 4013, in your real world, you have died already, please talk to me so I can assume that you are ready to cooperate?]

Luna said after a while, "Hm, we are not friends. I would rather be called Miss Luna, Heroin⁴ or whatever your name is."

Heroic System, "..." Heroin, what the heck is that!

[Ding! Does Mr. Luna want beauty, power or be admired by thousands of people? I guarantee you that once you agree you can have all that!]

Luna said without hesitation after hearing the classic line of scammers, "Be gone, I don't want to be some slave."

Heroic System: "..."

[Ding! Mr. Luna, after the number of needed missions, is completed, you can return to the real world with the time earned by doing missions! ]

Luna's eyeballs turned, that's right, what she wanted was to be alive again.

After a while, Luna calmed down, "What is the mission?"

[Ding! It's to acquire heroic value.]

Luna didn't understand, "What do you mean?"

[Ding! Thousands of popular novels have turned into worlds, and each world has its own protagonist⁵ that controls the direction of that world. However, unstable crumbling factors are beginning to appear in some of the worlds, affecting the fates of the protagonist causing them to either lose their protagonist aura⁶ or their very own lives. Mr. Luna's mission is to save the protagonist!]

[After that, you will receive the mission completion prompt and the countdown to leave the world.]

Luna frowned, "From what I understand, was my world a novel as well? Was my sister the protagonist and I just a side character..heh, no, maybe I was the big bad villian?⁷"

The system was inexplicably silent.

"It sounds like a kid's dream of being a hero." Luna rolled her eyes again. "So brainless..tch."

Heroic System: "..."

Heroic System repeated: [Is Mr. Luna ready to say the Magical! Two! Words!]

Luna was a little surprised: "So I can't refuse?"

Heroic System's voice seemed to have a trace of wronged grievance:

[Ding! Of course, our League already has 4012 Players, it's not like it's hard to find a villian killed wrongly because of the protagonist's madness! You can refuse but I really want miss as my host! I specially chose you!]

Luna keenly captured the information in Herion- Heroic System's words, so there was a requirement for her to be chosen.

She was selected because of cause and effect, her sister- the protagonist being affected by something and the cause being the villian- her dying early in her world or book as the effect.

But now was not the time to scold that idiot's eighteen generations.

"What will happen if I don't say those magical words of yours?"

[Ding! Mr. Luna has resentment in her and will slowly disappear due to lack of soul energy in thirty days!]

So, her end was after all death here.

"How does doing your missions keep me alive?"

[Ding! Mr. Luna will receive a thousand Soul Coins or more after every mission completed! Each Soul Coin equals to an hour of life...that adds up to 40 days to live for! ]

"..." Looking at her corpse which her father and sister had given to a cheap morgue to hide her whereabouts, she finally made her decision.

"Let's begin."

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¹[ Children born of bigamous marriages; Luna's mother slept with "another man" and gave birth to Luna, Mr. Noble(The father in this chapter) kept Luna to avoid the gossip that he was cheated on. ]

²

[ A highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria. Luna calls the Heroic System, Heroin, as in, she thinks whatever is happening to her occurs only when you're on drugs. ]

³[ the leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel, etc. ]

⁴[ No matter how many people are in the crowd, you can always see them at a glance. Their presence is totally impossible to ignore. People with the protagonist's aura are a world's favorite, every one suffering will reward them ten times the reward. ]

⁵[ Cannon fodder are character in a book, only created to show off how good the protagonist is compared to them. Cannon fodder's also usually die fast.

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