Yael's eyes snapped open. No heavy breathing this time. Just cold, sharp clarity. The red-yellow screen glowed before him.
ENDINGS 2/3 ACHIEVED.
Yael stalled the time thinking, even though he played this game once, long ago, he still remembered one thing. The branches.
Branch A: Obey, eat, get bitten by the narrative cleaner under the bed. (Ending: Consumed/Corrupted)
Branch B: Refuse food, try to fight with a mother. (Ending: Executed/Reset)
And the last branch. That was a secret. He hadn't yet completed.
The mother was not a character. She was the level boss. The guardian of the exit. Her script was reactive, designed to punish deviation. But all scripts have gaps. All bosses have patterns.
Instead of going down like usual, he grabbed the robot cat. placed it aside. put all the toys under the bed, leaving only wires. The ground was all covered in a soft dream-like carpet. But when he flipped it over he found keys, locks, and wires. He searched in the wires and key puddle for something, anything. After a moment of searching, he only had found a weird looking weapon. It was a sharp blade that looked like an ordinary plate.
He sighed and tried to access the saved files.
> INPUT_FILE_SAVE
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NEW PROCESS CREATED: WRATH_19_SIM_BAK: PID 8999. STATUS: SUSPENDED.
SAVE STATE STORED TO: /sandbox/archive/yael_backup_001.sav
"Awerdlian," she said, her voice a soft static. "You've been… quiet. What are you doing on the floor?"
Yael, looked at her and smirked "I know who you are. A Wire, an AI, A Artificial intelligence that has to listen to the system, a Artificial slave, who does nothing but scare humans from taking over the world, because the governement programmed you like that, but they forgot a switch, the empathy switch."
The Woman glitched "HoW d-DA_rE YO-u S.A-y T_Ha-t T_O m-E!?"
"I am going to need you to put on underwear before you say anything else." He winked, knowing damn, well AI, don't need or wear clothes.
She lunged forward and tried to get Yael, but he slid down under the wires, that was the bonus and third ending. The ending of being eaten by wires, and the bonus ending of telling the truth.
ENDING 3/3_BONUS_LEVEL_ACHIEVED.
NOVEL; DEATH SERVICE - COMPLETE.
REWARD: 1100_PAPP.
CURRENTLY 2321.1 PAPP
A laugh from the real world. "We'll finally meet..After decades.." the computer hummed in response, the room was clean, filled with streamer equipment. "Yael, or should i say...Kenju?"