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My heart felt as if it had suddenly stepped into thin air.
A deep, sinking feeling of weightlessness washed over me.
Before I could even begin to process the origin of these strange emotions, lines of white text began to scroll across my vision.
The text was dense, flashing past my eyes at a rapid pace-
[And here’s another new candidate.]
Over the past decade, I can’t even count if this is the twentieth or the two–hundredth.]
[The System is seriously terrified of this guy. Terrified he’ll just decide to burn the whole world down one day.]
[So it keeps trying to shove people into his life.]
[But he only ever loved his dead wife.]
[For years, the System has sent countless ‘replacement‘ candidates.]
[Some looked just like her, some had her exact personality, some even came fully prepared with all her memories…]
