His Doomsday Cage of Ten Years Regret Chapter 11

His Doomsday Cage of Ten Years Regret Chapter 11

I froze mid-step.

Ever since my rebirth, I’d called out to the system countless times in my mind.

Not a single reply ever came.

[You never submitted a request to amend your regrets. At present, I am bound to Peyton Hale as his

system.]

The familiar voice echoed beside my ear.

“Does that mean… I’m Peyton’s regret?

And my second chance at life happened because of him?”

[Correct. Peyton activated this system through his research into supernatural abilities.]

Supernatural ability research…

In the later stages of the apocalypse, order had been restored, and all kinds of ability research

flourished.

Healing-type abilities aimed to raise the dead and mend fatal wounds.

Spatial-type abilities tried to trap the spirits of the dead.

Time-type abilities aimed to reset the world to before the outbreak.

Ten years of the apocalypse had left countless losses in its wake.

The spirits of those who passed wandered endlessly with no way to rest in peace.

The living clung desperately to those they’d lost.

While my spirit lingered attached to Peyton, I witnessed dozens of these far-fetched, borderline impossible Aptitude research trials.

But every single one had failed.

[The experiments didn’t succeed, but Peyton uncovered the truth about this world through them. He broke free from the plot. To keep the world running, we offered him a regret-resolution plan.]

“But I was already dead by then… Peyton, he-”

[Primary protagonist Peyton Hale has died.]

My mind went blank.

“That can’t be right! You said his story had a happy ending!”

[Having broken free from the plot, Peyton Hale did not receive a happy ending. He died by suicide one hour after Dawn Carter’s spirit completely faded.]

My newly awakened invisibility ability was still unstable, and my body flickered in and out.

The system finished its explanation and signaled that I could leave.

“What happens to Peyton now?”

[Erasure.]

I looked at Peyton, who had fallen unconscious the moment the system appeared.

“His regret was locking me away…” I rephrased, “or not getting to build a life with me?”

I still remembered how his eyes had reddened when he said those words during our fight.

[No. His regret was failing to protect you. You have awakened your “Hidden” ability, satisfying the conditions. The regret resolution mission has concluded, and Peyton has voluntarily opted for

termination from this simulation.]

Why…

“What if I want to keep him here?”

[He has PTSD. His possessiveness and love for you are already maxed out, and he can’t handle you

being in any danger. That state is highly unstable. If you can accept that, we won’t interfere.]

“We’ll handle this ourselves.”

The system left. I woke Peyton up.

“What did you promise me in your past life?

You swore you’d hold yourself accountable for me back then. Do you even grasp what accountability truly means? Now you’re trying to cut and run without a word?”

Peyton’s dazed eyes slowly focused.

As if confirming something, he smiled, a tear slipping down his cheek.

I wiped it away.

“I have an ability now. You’re never locking me up again.”

Peyton pulled me into a tight embrace. “I’m sorry.”