POV: SEO-JUN — THE EXECUTIONER
I tracked him to 'The Abyss.' It was an underground mana club where the scum of the school went to trade illegal soul-shards.
I saw him. Ha-joon was sitting on a throne of digital junk, surrounded by 'Scavengers.' One guy had his hand on Ha-joon's thigh, trying to drain his regression energy for a quick high.
My vision went red. Not 'angry' red. 'Delete-the-Universe' red.
[CRASH.]
I dropped through the ceiling, my [EXECUTIONER'S WHIP] crackling with black fire.
I didn't say a word. I lashed out. The scavengers were disintegrated instantly, their digital bodies turning into red pixels and ash.
I grabbed Ha-joon by the collar and dragged him into a [VOID-SPACE] private room where gravity was turned off.
"You want to be touched by that trash?" I screamed, pinning him against a wall of floating data. "You want them to drain what belongs to ME?"
"They give me what you won't!" he shouted back, his violet eyes glowing. "They give me the destruction I need to feel alive! You're too scared to actually break me!"
I ripped his hoodie off. The neon light hit his naked arms.
I stopped.
They weren't just scars. They were [REBOOT FRACTURES]. Every time Ha-joon had been deleted in his previous 99 lives, a permanent fracture had been burned into his soul-code. It was a map of 99 murders committed by Executioners who came before me.
"You've died ninety-nine times?" My voice was a jagged whisper. My madness reached a breaking point.
He looked away, his eyes damp with toxic euphoria. "Every Executioner before you was a professional. They killed me the second they saw me. But you... you're a freak. You want to own the bug before you crush it. You're slow, King."
I grabbed his chin, forcing him to look up. My eyes were burning with an eternal, possessive hunger.
"I won't kill you, Ha-joon. I'm going to keep you in this 100th life forever. I'm going to override your System with my own Blood-Code."
I bit my own hand and smeared my blood across his reboot fractures.
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION: SOUL-BOND ESTABLISHED.]
"Your pain belongs to me now. If you want to feel alive, you look at me. Only me. I will be your only source of power. I will be your only drug."
He shivered as my black mana flooded his veins. It was the highest high I had ever felt.
"Yes..." he whispered, pulling me down for a bloody kiss. "Ruin me. Don't let me go back to the void."
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JI-SOO POV — I held the World Core in my hands. It was glowing bright white. "The System is glitching because of their Soul-Bond," I smirked at Hana. I activated the Core, causing the club's gravity to reverse and the walls to start disappearing. "The Core is ours. Let's get out of here. The BL couple can rot in this void-space while the world-line collapses. We have what we came for."]