Mission Fail: Kill Me Now Chapter 07
“No need.” I refused again.
Even a cold, emotionless System could make an exception for me, but the men I gave my heart to? Not one of them believed me. If I had to keep giving for them, I would rather die.
“I’ll expose her. I’ll make sure she knows what it means to lose everything.”
Casey froze for a second. When he came back to himself, there was a pleading look in his eyes.
“In this world, we only have each other. What good will it do you to drive her to death? Don’t be so selfish,
okay?”
“I’m not selfless enough to treat my mother’s killer like family.”
Casey looked at me, confused, as he said, “Hannah may be an illegitimate daughter, but that’s not something she chose. Mom’s death has nothing to do with her. She’s innocent.”
While he defended her, I directly sent a video file to his email. I had spent five hundred points to uncover the truth behind Lucas’s car accident. This video was an extra reward from the System.
In the footage, a young Hannah stared at our mother, who was playing with Casey and me, with eyes full
of hatred.
“If only she were dead. Then, my parents could be together, and I could be the Joneses’ real and only daughter. Mommy, I’ll make her disappear. I’ll clear the way for you.”
With a cruel, innocent smile, she used a hamburger to lure a few kids into taking Casey and me away from the amusement park. After that, she ran back to our mother and told her she had seen us. Mom was led to the edge of a pond. While she was completely off guard, Hannah pushed her straight into the water. As Mom struggled to climb out, Hannah picked up a thorny stick and struck her hands again and again
until the water swallowed her whole.
Along with the amusement park surveillance footage, there were also recordings from the past five years of me being punished by the System for breaking its rules while helping Casey. I was tortured over and
over, to the point where I was barely alive.
Casey stared blankly at everything, unable to say a word, because he knew very well that our mother had drowned in that pond. He also knew that when I was alone, I had no reason to act, so every bit of my
suffering was real.
“This is the price I paid to restore your health. Because it wasn’t a real illness, the hospital couldn’t detect anything.”
His lips trembled before he finally croaked out my name. “Chloe, you… Hannah said you were a Strategist -that everything you did for me was just part of a mission. She said the System cured my illness and that
you didn’t have to pay any price at all. So I-”
“Why is it that you believe everything she says, but not a single word from me?” I cut him off with a chuckle, feeling disappointed.
Yes, I was a Strategist, but many of the things I did for him weren’t because of any mission. It was because he was my brother. I genuinely wanted to help him.
“Chloe, I shouldn’t have doubted you. It’s my fault. I’m sorry. Please forgive me, okay?” Casey broke down, crying as he apologized regretfully, but those words meant nothing to me now.
Numb, I walked into the kitchen. The fruit knives were gone. Even the windows had been sealed shut with bars.
Did they really think that would stop me?
I filled the bathtub with water, ready to sink into it, but just as I was about to go under, Finn rushed in and yanked me up.
“Until you’ve paid back what you owe Hannah, I won’t let you die.”
His face was ashen with anger, yet at that moment, the System reminded me.
System: [Finn’s affection level for you has reached 20%. Reward: 200 points. You may exchange them for a truth-revealing video.]
