The ruins of the chapel still smoked like a battlefield. Blackened beams lay in tangled heaps, embers hissed against the rain seeping through the broken roof, and the sacred altar was nothing more than a pile of glowing rubble.
At the very center of it all sat Rei Velvet, still strapped into his half-melted Groom Chair of Doom, hair standing on end like an electrocuted hedgehog. He twitched, coughed soot, and wheezed:
"...I'm alive? Wait, why am I alive? I thought the chapter title was basically a death flag!"
[Critical Event: "Bridepocalypse – Phase 3."]
[Processing Danger Level… ERROR.]
[Danger Level: Beyond Charts. Congratulations, you broke math.]
[System Overdrive Activated.]
A metallic ka-chunk noise echoed inside Rei's skull, like a computer slamming the panic button. Then the voice of the System—usually monotone and smug—became a rapid-fire klaxon.
[Warning: Six Yanderes Detected.]
[Warning: Territorial Aggression Escalating.]
