「Reality」「Holy 741 — June 17, 18:44」「Assessment: Compared to your first simulation, your information-gathering ability improved greatly this second time. You have begun to lose fear of death… is that good?」「Accept this — the reward for one who fears nothing:」「Reward: Fate Points *3, [Death Reversal Lv.1]」「Fate Points: 14」
"Hah—"
Charles sucked in a quick breath and bolted upright in bed, propping herself with her hands.
Phantom pains still throbbed along the left side of her face; however composed she'd acted, the tearing pain of flesh would not lessen.
She ignored the system's commentary and summoned the system interface in her mind.
「Simulation」「Storage」「Point Shop」
She focused her mind on the Point Shop. A silver-white, hazy list unfurled before her and several new items appeared.
Her gaze skimmed the clothing slots and suddenly locked on one particular item.
Success...
「[.450 revolver (battle-worn)]」「Fate Points: 1」
What the—?
Charles blinked, hardly believing her eyes.
Before, the school uniform and diploma cost 1 Fate Point each; she'd thought that pricing was a rip-off. But seeing a revolver priced at only 1 Fate Point left her stunned.
If one Fate Point could buy a dress, then buying a gun for one point was wildly underpriced.
Still, given the system's attitude so far, she suspected a catch.
"How many bullets are in it?" she asked cautiously in her head.
「Five-chamber cylinder, three rounds remaining.」
「If you wish to purchase more ammunition, 1 Fate Point per bullet. Thank you for your patronage.」
Absolutely insane to buy bullets from it.
The system's valuation clearly didn't match ordinary human logic. To the system, clothes, a gun, and a single bullet all carried the same unit price. Only by examining more items could she infer the system's pricing rules.
Although the gun held only three rounds, Charles chose to buy it.
So far, this was the only item that actually made her feel safer. Even though Fate Points had other possible uses, she had to prioritize this weapon.
"Purchase."
Her Fate Points balance dropped from 14 to 13. When she exited the shop, a gold glint appeared at the top right of the "Storage" tab.
She opened the storage: the four slots were no longer empty. The first slot now showed an icon of the revolver.
With a thought, a white speck condensed in her palm and a black old-style revolver materialized in her hand.
It felt heavy, the grip awkward and historically inaccurate for comfort; the barrel bore several scratches and the trigger had a little play. Still it was well cared for and gleamed faintly.
It looked like a firearm from the 1800s — consistent with the era she'd assumed this world resembled. For a long time she'd thought she'd landed in a parallel London, but discoveries like a gang-leader staging a bizarre "ritual" to target her made her suspect there was more to this world than mundane reality.
Coupled with Amy's letter that the gang had bribed a church follower for something, and now the system's existence, Charles couldn't help but wonder whether the world really did hide supernatural elements.
Whatever dangers lurked, her immediate priority was survival.
She returned the revolver to storage and opened the "Skills" tab to inspect her newly obtained abilities.
Besides the original Agility Lv.1, a new skill appeared: [Death Reversal Lv.1].
「Death Reversal Lv.1: When you are about to die, clears all negative statuses and, at the cost of massive mental stamina, forcibly maintains a near-death state for a short duration. If mental stamina is exhausted before escaping the near-death state, death ensues.」
A forced extra few seconds of life...
Charles stared at the description with a strange expression.
In a game this would be a godly ultimate. But in real life, the skill felt meager.
In simulation, dying and getting a few extra seconds wouldn't change much — at most it would let her grab more intel. In reality, those extra seconds couldn't accomplish emergency surgery. Still, in simulations the skill could let her lock blood loss briefly to snatch equipment or trade time for critical information.
If Agility had been a modest physical buff, this Death Reversal was functionally supernatural.
She also noticed a small golden "+" next to her skills.
As soon as she touched that "+" mentally, the system prompted her.
「Spend 10 Fate Points to upgrade [Death Reversal]?」
No.
Charles refused decisively.
She only had 13 Fate Points left — barely enough for another simulation. If she spent ten upgrading a skill now, she might lose the chance to simulate again. Currently she had no other reliable method to earn Fate Points, and the ticking clock made leisure-time grinding impossible.
Eyan had been pestering her for half a year; it clearly wasn't random. The Blackwater Gang had approached her in the second simulation instead of murdering her sister in public like the first time — the only difference was that she killed Eyan this time.
Could the ritual require that she or her sister kill Eyan to be completed? Was that why he persistently provoked them?
If both she and her sister showed up in public — in the square, at the police station, or at wealthy acquaintances' houses — would the ritual still proceed?
She could test each option one by one — but with so few Fate Points, if the next simulation didn't yield a significant result, she might be out of points entirely.
Instead of gambling on chance and hoping she guessed their conspirators' minute-by-minute scheming, she favored a strategy they would never predict.
Retaliate.
Charles drew a long breath and opened the simulation menu again.
She needed to know when the next Coming Day simulation would land — tomorrow, the day after, or even later — before setting a plan.
「Coming Day: 10h (Holy 741 — June 18, 04:45) (Consumes 10 Fate Points)」「Bygone Day: 30 Day (Holy 741 — May 16, 07:30) (Consumes 100 Fate Points)」「Old Day: ***, *** Day (???) (Consumes 10000 Fate Points)」
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