After I Chose to Die, They All Regretted It Chapter 06

After I Chose to Die, They All Regretted It Chapter 06

The doctors had me do many more tests.

Only after they confirmed that I was fine did I leave the hospital.

The first place I went was the bank.

When I saw the long string of numbers in my account, I finally let out a slow breath.

The system’s voice sounded again.

[Host, I’m leaving soon. There are some truths. Do you still want to know them?]

I rubbed the bank card with my fingers and did not speak right away.

This unreliable system had thrown me into another world and then disappeared for fifteen years.

But in the end, it had given me a second life.

After thinking for a moment, I nodded.

[The original heroine, Ivy Grayson, who shared your name, died in an accident when she was six.]

[After her death, the core of that world began to collapse.]

[To prevent the entire world from falling apart, we could only search parallel worlds for a suitable person to replace the heroine.]

[You shared her name. You had a terminal illness. You were close to death. You were the most

suitable candidate.]

For some reason, the system’s mechanical voice carried a hint of guilt.

[I’m sorry. Preventing world collapse is our mission.]

I paused for a moment.

Then I quickly made peace with it.

[It’s fine. At least I got my health and the reward.]

The system seemed relieved. Then its voice carried a little more anger.

[As for Lydia Thorne, she isn’t an ordinary person. She’s another mission host.]

[Her mission was to drain the fate energy of important people in that world.]

[Right after I sent you there, before I could explain everything, her system planted a virus in me and forced me into dormancy.]

I lowered my eyes.

When I thought about those years again, everything felt blurry, like it had happened in a previous

life.

Of course I had been terrified when I was sent into a strange world.

But in those years, my brothers’ love and Caleb’s gentleness had truly calmed my fear bit by bit.

A dull ache still pulled at my chest.

The happiness back then had not been fake.

But the pain that came later had been real too.

And because that happiness had been real, every time they abandoned me afterward hurt even

more.

The system continued.

[Before I went dormant, I interfered one last time and sent you into that world as a six-year-old

child.]

[By the time Lydia found all of you, you had already spent more than ten years with them. Your

bond was very deep.]

[Even after Lydia told them you were a mission host, they didn’t care at all.]

I sighed. My mood was strangely calm.

[No matter how deep the bond was, didn’t they still choose her in the end?]

The system sighed too.

[No, Host. When Lydia realized that didn’t work, she made up a lie.]

[She told them that once you completed your mission, I would take you out of that world.]

[So she convinced them to act with her. She told them to ignore you, misunderstand you, and hurt

you on purpose. That way, I would think you couldn’t finish the mission.]

[Then I would give up on you, and you would stay by their side forever.]

The truth was finally clear.

But I felt nothing.

All those days of coldness, humiliation, and pain had come from what they called love.

It was so absurd I almost laughed.

The system’s voice softened.

[Host, I know you suffered a lot. Now they all know the truth. They live in regret every day.]

[If you need it, before I leave, I can open the channel one more time and let them apologize to you in

person.]

I looked out the window at the people passing by.

I stayed silent for a long time.

They regretted it.

So what?

[No need.]

I spoke softly, but my tone was firm.

[No matter what their purpose was, those wounds were already carved into my heart.]

[No apology can change that.]

The system did not force me.

[All right, Host. Then I wish you peace, joy, and no more pain or sickness for the rest of your life.

Goodbye.]

I returned to the orphanage where I had grown up.

After Sister Martha, the orphanage director, died, the place closed because it ran out of money.

The old little building had long since lost its old liveliness.

Moss covered the walls, and the iron gate was rusted.

I stood outside the gate, my eyes burning.

When I was very young, someone abandoned me here.

Sister Martha was the one who took me in and raised me.

For a long time, she had been the only warmth in my life.

But before I could repay her, she left because of illness.

She always said, “Ivy, keep a little light in your heart.”

I remembered those words for many years.

Now that I had the means, of course I had to protect the warmth she left behind.

I spent three months repairing the orphanage.

I renamed it Sunshine Home.

Little by little, I took in many children.

Looking at their timid yet hopeful eyes, I felt as if I were seeing my younger self.

A new flower shop opened next door.

The owner was Ethan Walker, a gentle man with kind eyes.

He often brought over fresh, neatly trimmed flowers.

He never bothered me too much. He only quietly helped me care for the children.

He remembered that I didn’t like strong floral scents, so he always brought flowers with a light,

clean smell.

Whenever I talked about Sister Martha, he would listen quietly, then say softly, “She must be very

proud of you.”

In that quiet, gentle life, our relationship slowly warmed.

I thought those days would continue forever.

Until one afternoon, the system’s panicked voice suddenly sounded in my mind.

[Host, please save that world.]

My hands paused.

[I have nothing to do with that world anymore.]

The system sounded extremely anxious.

[I know you don’t want to go back, but that world is about to collapse completely.]

[The version of you in that world never truly died. They sent your body to the Moretti family’s

private medical center and kept it alive on machines.]

[They also built a lab, stripped Lydia’s system out of her, and questioned it every day about how to wake you up.]

[Now they have even started believing in absurd rituals. Every day, they cut their wrists and bleed themselves, trying to keep that body alive. The order of the whole world is already falling apart.]

I was silent for a long time.

I hadn’t expected them to become that obsessive.

In the end, I sighed.

[I’m going back, but not because I miss them.]

[I just don’t want to watch an entire world collapse because of me.]