29 Chapter-29<*Premature End or Uncertain Future*>

It was a new day for the inhabitants of the Takagi mansion

who still did not understand what had happened yesterday.

Cloud was in the Deceased Souichiro's office looking at Yuriko who was sitting at the desk with a cold look on her face- "Did you call me?"

"Yes" - agreed Yuriko - "I want you to tell me the truth"

"?" Cloud gave the woman a confused look.

"You know very well what I'm talking about" - Widow Takagi said - "I want to know how you knew about my husband's death"

Cloud frowned when she heard this.

"Don't try to lie to me because I received the report that you ran away a few minutes before you captured that bastard Shido" - Yuriko said coldly - "Now... how about you tell me the truth?"

"..."-Cloud was silent as he spoke

Mentally with the System.

"Anything you want to tell me?" Yuriko asked with a neutral look.

Cloud sighed ruefully as she asked the system if there was any way she could tell Yuriko about all of this.

[Only if she is recruitable, only then does she enter the System 'Territory']

"..."-Cloud was silent for a few seconds while he denied with the head.

"And good?" - said the beautiful woman with purple hair - "I'm still waiting..."

"What if I tell her about this?" The blonde asked mentally.

[She will die in a week because the "World" doesn't allow "Spoilers" or Information beyond her "Understanding". drastically]

Cloud sighed again as he looked at the woman in front of him-"I can tell you the reason but if I do, there will be consequences you can't imagine"

"Are you threatening me?" Yuriko asked with a frown. She was already furious for all the events that had happened but now the boy in front of her was threatening her.

"I'm not threatening you" - denied the blond - "I'm just warning you that if I talk, something very bad will happen to you"

"Do you think it could be worse than losing my husband?" Yuriko asked furiously as she jumped to her feet, "Now... tell me what I want to know!"

"Ok…" the blonde sighed as he shook his head.

Say I didn't warn you"

"Just talk" - Yuriko snorted.

"Ok... let's start with who I am" - Cloud said seriously - "This is your last chance to take a step back"

Yuriko just kept silent as she motioned for him to proceed.

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After a few minutes, Yuriko didn't know what exactly to say. She was thinking that all the blonde's words were nothing but lies but after she finished speaking, a screen appeared in front of her.

[Character Yuriko has heard information that should not be heard... executing protection and balance program... Remaining time before character Yuriko's annihilation... 6 days, 23 hours... 59 minutes... 59 seconds ...]

[Information has been blocked... Character Yuriko can remember the information but when she tries to talk about it, it cannot be expressed]

"..." - Yuriko opened her mouth not knowing what to say. She couldn't believe what she had heard but the screen in front of her was more than enough proof of the truth of everything.

"I told you"-sighed the blonde as he shook his head.

"I..." - Yuriko didn't know what to say in this situation.

"If it makes you feel better, now I can tell you about everything that will happen"-Cloud said as a serious look appeared on her face-"Or at least how things would have been if he wasn't present"

"..."-Yuriko frowned when she heard this because she honestly didn't think that many things would change with the presence of just one person.

"Let me make a few things clear before we go any further," Cloud said as he looked at the woman, "These 'Worlds', they are like books... each one has a 'protagonist' who is the center of the 'plot' ... "

"Are you saying that we are just puppets moving in control of what is already destined?" Yuriko asked angrily.

"No" - denied the blonde- "That's what I thought at the beginning but after living in this world, I understood that this is far from reality. You are intelligent living beings with your own decisions and desires, that is why you can change many things with just one push

Yuriko calmed down a bit when she heard those words but she was still upset as she felt that she had no choice but to follow the same path over and over again.

"As I said, each world has a 'protagonist' and the one in this place, believe it or not, is Takashi" - continued the blonde.

"He?!" -exclaimed Yuriko with surprise, although she had to admit that the boy did have something that made him different but that she couldn't explain- "Is that why I felt so comfortable with him being close to my daughter?"

"I'm not going to go into the original plot much, since I feel that it's not important to you right now"-Cloud said as he watched carefully-"But I can tell you one thing"

"And what would that be?" Yuriko asked seriously.

"That the chaos is about to start again" - replied the blond.

"!" -Yuriko was surprised when she heard this but she quickly calmed down.

"I don't understand the reason but this should have started a few days ago... I guess my presence created a butterfly effect" - the blonde sighed - "I don't know which country will launch a Nuclear Bomb in the Sea of ​​Japan and cause an EMP Wave that It will leave the entire city, no, the entire country, without electricity."

Yuriko gasped when she heard this because she honestly was too amazing.

"It was at that moment that Shido, who would be driving towards the mansion, couldn't brake and crashed into an outpost... creating a huge explosion" - the blonde continued - "That same explosion, would cause all the zombies in the area were to walk in this direction and lay siege to the mansion... Takashi's group would survive but you and Souichiro..." у

"We would stay to defend the mansion and make time for our daughter to be safe..." Yuriko replied as she felt her heart pounding.

"Souichiro would tell you to go with them..." - added Cloud.

"But I would say that I would stay fighting by her side and die with him…" the purple-haired woman answered again.

"I don't think it's necessary for me to continue talking... right?" Cloud said calmly.

".. ." -Yuriko remained silent as she nodded, only taking a new look at the screen that was almost transparent.

she was in front of. She sighed seeing how time continued to drop with each passing second - "Am I really going to die?"

"I'm sorry to say it but yes" - nodded the blonde.

"Is there any way to save me?" Yuriko asked. She didn't want to die, not when her daughter would be left alone.

"..."-Cloud was silent as he struggled with the idea of ​​telling her or not.

"Yes, there is!" Yuriko exclaimed excitedly.

"Yes…" the blonde sighed as he looked at the woman, "But I honestly don't recommend it…"

"What are you talking about?" Yuriko asked with a frown. She had found a way to survive and get to spend more time with her daughter.

Cloud bit his lip as he asked the System if

she could give him the information directly.

[I can, but since she's not recruited yet, I'll only be able to show her some basic information.]

Cloud nodded when he heard this, so he instructed him to show the woman the information. The system had made no excuses this time since Yuriko was already informed of more important things.

"?" - Yuriko was surprised to see a new pop-up screen and began to read it carefully. Slowly her expression became more and more strange, to the point that she was now neutral- "Is this true?"

"That's right" - agreed the blonde.

"..."-Yuriko just kept silent as she analyzed the little information she had been given and honestly, she didn't know how to react to something like this.

"Recruitment…" the woman muttered as she quickly fell into thought. She more or less understood what it was about but she somehow felt that something was missing – 'can you tell me anything else?'

"No

"I'm sorry" - denied the blond.

"Ok...it's more than I thought it would be" Yuriko sighed "I need some time alone..."

She understood that if he recruited her, her relationship would change drastically, mostly because she would have to leave this world and they would spend a lot of time together. Yuriko understood that she couldn't assure that in the future, something would happen between the two of them, that's why she had to think everything carefully.

"Remember that the Nuclear Bomb can explode at any moment"-Cloud sighed as he got up and left the office-"Don't pressure yourself"

"Ok" - agreed the beautiful woman with purple hair. Honestly, she regretted having almost forced the boy to tell him the truth because now her situation was not the best of all. Not only had she lost her husband, but she now had less than a week to live.

"Stay and Die... or Accompany him and not know what will happen between us"-muttered the woman as she massaged her forehead-"I don't know what to do...please help me...Souichiro..."

Premature end or Uncertain future, she didn't know what to choose.

"I'm going to wait a bit... maybe things will change"-Yuriko sighed as she shook her head-"I'd better relax by torturing that bastard Shido... at least that way I'll be able to clear my mind a bit"

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With the reduction in plot and time, I think this is a good way to speed things up a bit for the two of them, at least without leaving an extremely large plot hole like speeding up the process of both of them having feelings for him. another (as happened in the original version of this story). The pressure for his early death can make everything happen faster, knowing more about the survival instinct that we all have.

I think I'm going to stick much more to the original work so that the development of this one doesn't feel so forced, although like here, I'm going to change a lot of things or skip certain events.