Title: I Was Isekai'd With My Wife and Now She's the Final Boss of the Fandom Author: H. Behevras Genre: Comedy, Isekai, Music, Married Protagonist, Parody Tags: #FinalBossWife #MetalheadMC #BoybandHell #TrashIsekaiButActuallyGenius
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Chapter 38: "The Second Inquisition"
Part. 4: The Transition/Discovery
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Previously on:
The Second Inquisition left a trail of broken egos and crying CEOs, but victory feels hollow. Raiko sees a girl on the edge — literally — and realizes his fight has moved beyond corporations.
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The victory celebration was supposed to happen at the dorms.
Jinwoo had ordered a cake shaped like a corporate headquarters with "JUSTICE TASTES SWEET" written in frosting.
Taeyang had prepared a playlist of triumphant metal songs.
Even Minjun had bought party hats—black ones, because he understood branding.
But Raiko never made it home.
He'd been following the girl with the short hair for a few hours now, keeping his distance, his instincts screaming that something was very, very wrong.
She moved like someone sleepwalking toward their own funeral.
He'd seen dozens of news reports about the industry changes his campaign had triggered. Contracts being rewritten.
Training schedules humanized.
Executives actually using the phrase "employee wellbeing" without vomiting.
He should have been celebrating.
Should have been proud.
Instead, he was trailing a stranger through Tealandia's emptying streets because something about her posture reminded him of every suicide note he's ever written.
She stopped at a street vendor and bought cotton candy with the mechanical precision of someone performing their last ritual.
The vendor, an elderly man with kind eyes, tried to make conversation.
"Bit of scary for a young lady to be out alone in this blood colored dusk, isn't it?"
She smiled—the kind of smile that broke hearts and fooled absolutely no one who'd ever felt that particular flavor of despair.
"I love this color. It's beautiful."
The vendor looked concerned but handed her the cotton candy anyway. She paid with exact change, like she'd planned this transaction.
That's when Raiko knew.
He'd felt that same eerie calm before his darkest moments.
The strange peace that came with making an irreversible decision.
The way the world became sharper and more beautiful when you thought you were seeing it for the last time.
She was walking toward the cliffs.
Of course she was.
Raiko's enchanted mirror buzzed with another congratulatory message.
Some entertainment industry whistleblower thanking him for giving them the courage to speak out.
He silenced it without reading.
All his victories, all his righteous anger, all his systematic destruction of corporate corruption—none of it meant anything if he couldn't save one person from the darkness he knew too well.
The celebration could wait.
Hell, it could be canceled entirely.
Right now, there was only one thing that mattered: this girl walking toward the edge of the world, and the conversation that might be the difference between sunset and ending.
Raiko quickened his pace.
He had a life to save.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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Author's Note:
And here we are — the comedown after the chaos.
The cake is waiting at the dorm, the memes are trending, the system is shaking…
But Raiko can't celebrate because he's seen that walk before.
This chapter is slower, quieter, and heavier — the first time Raiko's crusade becomes deeply personal, the first time he realizes he can't just smash systems, he has to save people.
If your heart didn't crack a little when she smiled at the vendor, you might actually be one of the CEOs from Chapter 37.
Next chapter?
It's not just an inquisition anymore.
It's a rescue mission.
— H. Behevras
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