My Eros System Grants Me Infinite Romance Routes
Chapter 14: Delta Threat...
CHAPTER 14: DELTA THREAT...
Akira st ood still for a moment. His heart was racing as the system’s warn ings flashed in front of him like an out-of-control fire.
He co uld fee l Mia’s warmth and remembered the connection they almost shared. But all of that was drowned out by the loud alarms ringing in his head.
He could feel the unnatural energy in the air. Somethin g was happeni ng ... something dangerous. So he made h is choice.
[B: INTERVENE]
Survival and power trumped everything else. It had to.
Akira rolled off Mi a, grabbed his shorts, and pulled them back on. His hands shook as adrenaline flooded his system.
"Mia, I have to go! Now!" he said , already moving tow ard the d oor.
"Go?!" Mia’s voice was fill ed with disbelief and rage. "Are you fuck ing serious, Akira? Of all the times , yo u have to go NOW? We were literally about to..."
She grabbed for him, but he was already too far. "Don’t you dare aba ndon me! Akira, if you leave me now, I swear to God I will never forgive you! Do you hear me?!"
Akira didn’t look bac k. He snatched his dagger from the gym bag ne ar his desk and threw op en the door.
[AFFINITY LOSS: MIA (- 15). CURRENT AFFINITY: 63]
The n otification flashed, but he barely registered it. He burst into the dark hallway, and his enh anced senses from the ritua l immediately picked up on the wrongness in the air.
Ayaka was already there, waiting.
She stood in the shadows wearing a tight black tactical b odysuit, nothing like the silk robe from earlier. Her silver hair was pulled back i n a ponytail, and her eyes glowed faintly with d emonic energy.
She looked less like a transfer student and more like a warrior preparing for battle.
"You felt it too," Ayaka stated flatly. It wasn’t a question.
"Hard t o miss," Akira replied, gripping his dagger tighter.
"The instability is a direct result of our exchange earlier. Our ritual opened a rift somewhere nearby. I’m estimating Gr ade Gamma, possibly higher depending on..."
"It’s Grade De lta," Akira interrupted, correc ting he r.
Ayaka’ s eyes widened slightly. "Delta? That’s... problematic. Are you certain?"
"The system doe sn’t lie about threats."
She processed this for a mom ent, the n nodded sharpl y. "Then we have no time to waste."
[NEW QUEST: CONTAIN DELTA THREAT]
[REWARD: +10 PERV-POINTS, TITLE: DEMON HUNTER]
"Where is it?" Akira demanded.
Ayaka ex te nded her hand, pointing down the hallway toward the building’s exit. "That direction. Approximately 350 meters away." She met his gaze. "I’m coming with you. I know how to navigate a fresh rift. You’ll need me."
Akira nodded. An ally who knew what they were facing w as invaluable. "Let’s move."
They headed for the main entrance in tense silence. B ehind them, the door to his room opened.
"Akira!" He r voice echoed down the hallway. "Don ’t you dare ignore me!"
But Akira was a lready through the building’s front door, with Ayaka right behind him.
Mia ran to Ak ira’s window, throwing back the curtain just in time to see them sprinting down the street side-by - side.
That silver-haire d freak and Akira, the guy who’d just been about to give her exactly what she needed, what she’d been craving since the gym. She’d seen how big his dick was, felt it, knew he could satisfy her in ways her previous lover never could.
And now he was running off with her.
Mia’s face twisted wi th betrayal and jealousy, qu ickly turning to pur e anger. Her nails pressed hard into the windows il l. "You’re going to regret this," she w hispered into the empty room.
—
Akira and Ayaka ran through darkened city streets that should have been alive with late-night activity but were instea d strangely silent.
Ayaka moved with surprising speed and grace, without making a sound, even at a full sprint. A kira pushed himself to keep pace , his newly awakened powers making him faster and stronger than he’d been just days ago.
[SYSTEM NAVIGATION: 250M TO RIFT LOCAT ION]
The counter ticked down as they ran.
[200M]
[1 50M]
[100M]
They turned a corner into an ind ustrial district and stopped at the edge of an abandoned construction site. The u nfinished buildings stood tall against the night sk y, looking like the ske letons of giant creatures.
The air w as filled with a strange energy that smelled like ozone and brimstone. In the middle o f the si te, where a steel support frame should have been, there was a huge dimensional tear in space. It floated in the air, swirli ng with an uncomfortable mix of green and purple li ght.
"What the fvck ?" Akira breathed.
Ayaka stopped them just outside the construction site’s perimeter. "This is not a me re tear in reality. This is a Ga te... a temporary pock et dimension connected to our world by a thin membrane. Think of it as... a dungeon."
"A dungeon?"
"I’m guessing the Grade Delta threat isn’t something trying to cross into our world from the demon realm," she explained, her eyes never leaving the swirling vortex. "It’s a Guardian inside the pocket dimension, att empting to f orce the Gate fully open from within. If it succeeds, the barrier between dimensions wea kens permanently in this location."
"So we hav e to close it," Akira said, adjusting his grip on the dagger.
"No... we have to defeat the Guardian," Ayaka corrected. "That’s the only way to close it. See, a fresh Gate must be stabilised from the inside, or the entire structure collapses catastrophically, r elea sin g w hatever entities are trapped within directly into our world."
She glanced at him, and for the first time, he saw genuine excitement in her demonic eyes. "Tell me we are going in, Akira-kun."
[QUEST UPDAT E: ENTER GATE AND DEFEAT GUARDIAN]
"How do we enter?" Akira asked, studying the rotating energy.
Ayaka smirked. "You simply step through. But understand, once inside, there’s no turning back until the Guardian is dead. The Gate won’t release us unt il the threa t is neutralised. We succeed, or we die trying."
Akira looked at t he swirling vortex, then down at his dagger. He had a weapon, some accumulated power, a Succubus ally who knew what she w as doing, and a desperate nee d to get strong er... fast.
He thought of Kenji. Of Sakura. Of everyone who’d ever looke d down on him.
"Let’s go," he said firmly.