I Really Don't Want a Girlfriend Anymore

Chapter 621 621: Women Will Only Hinder Me From Completing Tasks!

"Continue."

As if seeing her hesitation, Yuu leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms, and said calmly, "I'm quite curious about what I'll do after being possessed by the Scoundrel Development System, and what happened to Kanade and you after that, until you became like this."

Setting aside how tragic he and Sora were in the videos, with no one living past eighteen.

The fact that the system, which was something beyond reason, could be modified by a ghost who was originally just an ordinary girl, was truly beyond the limits of common sense.

Plus his little sister was also dragged in, even personally modifying a system that sounded very bad...

Yuu was truly becoming increasingly curious, to what extent they had played with this system before meeting his current self, and how the system evolved from the Girlfriend Development System to become the Life Achievement System and Boyfriend System types.

Was the girl's journey the history of the system's development?

And as for Kanade, although Yuu was slightly moved seeing her persistent efforts to save him, and believed there was a reason why his former self could fall in love with her, but as for impressions and memories...

"Even though this time didn't work, I just need to find a way to discover it in the next cycle."

Yuu guessed the reason this clone of his little sister let him watch these videos wasn't just to answer his confusion, but also to ask him to rediscover her friend whose existence had vanished.

That should be something only he could do, otherwise Sora wouldn't have asked those questions earlier—the feeling of lost memories or modified memories was indeed very unpleasant. If possible, Yuu also wanted to quickly restore everything to its original state.

Remembering what happened to him with Iroha and Kanade in this world, remembering the real memories with the Boyfriend System he possessed, and immediately leaving this trial, returning to reality and reuniting with his real little sister.

But these things couldn't be achieved in an instant at all.

Yuu was already prepared to repeat many times, just like the time Kanade experienced in the video—it made no sense if that fragile and easily conquered little girl could persevere, yet he himself didn't have even that small amount of patience and persistence.

As Yuu thought this, the silver-haired woman before him showed a somewhat difficult expression. This made Yuu furrow his brows.

"Is there a difficulty?"

"...Honestly, the administrator isn't the god of this trial, and is also limited by the most basic settings of the system itself."

After hesitating for quite a while, Sora removed her glasses, rubbed her temples, and told the truth, "Adding the time Kanade experienced alone, we've researched for hundreds of years, transforming this system into various forms. You could say we can do whatever we want, even transforming it into some kind of food reserve mascot and cute character you can flirt with..."

"But even having reached this stage, we still haven't been able to crack the system's source code, and can only modify it based on its basic settings. Many rules must be followed if they can't be avoided."

For instance, the system would definitely find Yuu, and would never leave him until the Final Task Objective was achieved. This they couldn't change at all.

And this Final Task Objective also couldn't be too easy. Otherwise, the system couldn't obtain sufficient operational energy, and would directly activate the self-protection program, forcibly changing the task to its internal settings, and would definitely make Yuu more unhappy than previous times.

Don't ask why, those were bloody lessons—the bloodied one was of course him in those world lines. Some of them were really too tragic for Sora to recall.

Anyway, if her older brother was tragic, then her own fate was basically not good either... The two of them were indeed like that. To put it nicely, they were a community of destiny. To put it badly, they were sufferers of excessive codependency. Couldn't do without either one.

If she, like Yuu, looked for a boyfriend outside to get another focus, and gradually separated the affection between siblings and lovers, perhaps this situation could be improved.

Unfortunately, forget several hundred world lines, even after going through several thousand different world lines, this possibility wouldn't appear.

Sora sighed and continued, "Actually I can't appear before you in this form, and tell you the truth."

She spread her hands, flicked the sleeves of her wide white lab coat, and incidentally or not deliberately puffed out her chest, so he could see her future development.

"But I bypassed the system rule that no assistance whatsoever may be given to the Host during the trial period, made contact with you without affecting the trial's progress, and took the opportunity when that short blonde created trouble to expand the administrator's permissions. Only then could I create an independent space like now, and tell you these things openly."

Seeing Yuu's unaffected gaze, Sora sighed disappointedly and pouted.

"After this cycle ends, I can no longer say things that my immature self wouldn't say. Consider it roleplaying where you can't be OOC... At the same time, because this matter is related to that idiot who erased her own existence from this world, as long as without my help, you'll forget the existence named Tachibana Kanade again, and although you'll feel strange, you'll never be able to remember her."

After saying this, she put her glasses back on, and the eyes behind the lenses became serious.

Yuu didn't avoid them. The siblings' gazes met in the air, crossing their feelings and thoughts with each other.

"So, there's only this one chance."

"Yuu, I believe you can do it. And you must do it in the remaining half hour—"

"Please, give an ending that's no longer lonely to that super idiot who always likes to sacrifice herself."

Countless cycles, countless loneliness. Sora didn't know how Kanade persevered without breaking down.

Just as she witnessed Yuu's past, Sora witnessed both their pasts—the one facing misfortune wasn't just her, but also herself who had failed hundreds of times yet still hadn't given up on changing fate.

If there was a girl in this world who could become her sister-in-law, and she didn't mind at all, it might only be this pitiful and foolish best friend of hers.

"...I understand."

Yuu nodded lightly, accepting the burden of these feelings.

Not just for his little sister, but also for himself.

He was already determined to rediscover Kanade's existence. Even if he didn't plan to resume a relationship with her, at least he had to tell her.

"Thank you, for accompanying me until now, for my future."

And what Yuu said he would do, no matter how much time it took, or how much effort had to be expended, he would complete it.

Sora stared at him deeply. Only after a long time did she smile calmly and gently.

"Mm, I believe in you."

"After all, Yuu has never disappointed when it comes to kidnapping girls."

"...Sora, is this the right atmosphere to say something like that? I've also never kidnapped girls."

"I'm just stating the facts. When you remember what you did in the real world, you'll know why I evaluate you like that."

Yuu: "..."

(Impossible.)

(Did the me in this world line really become a despicable scoundrel who kidnaps girls?)

Seeing his disbelieving yet slightly guilty expression, Sora suppressed her laughter and pursed her lips. After taking a deep breath, she cleared her throat and said seriously:

"Time is limited. Next, I'll speed up the video and tell what happened next from my perspective."

After confirming Yuu didn't mind, Sora began playing the next video while narrating what she knew.

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In the next world line, Kanade and the Scoundrel Development System descended at Yuu's side. Not long after landing, she immediately sought out her old partner, Sora.

Learning from previous experience, this time without much effort, she successfully made Sora join the Yuu Rescue Front that only had two members. Then, like a game development team, Kanade and Sora tested the modified system and found various bugs and areas needing improvement.

Compared to the gentle and pure Girlfriend Development System, the Scoundrel Development System was far more extreme. It was truly like deliberately leading Yuu down the wrong path, making people wonder if this system was designed for revenge, Kanade, and Sora in this world...

If not for the message received from the previous Sora, the Sora in this world might have found it difficult to willingly watch her brother become a scoundrel.

As for the result, should it be called unexpected, or regrettable...

Yuu successfully became a scoundrel. He dated five women without anyone knowing, and even accidentally got one pregnant. This scoundrel fact alone already gave him many points and rewards from the system.

Next, he just needed to confess his love to all five girlfriends separately on graduation day, to complete all the system's tasks, truly free himself, and reverse the fate that had never changed toward an unknown direction.

Then he died.

His five girlfriends killed each other, and he didn't even have a chance to confess. He was dragged to the afterlife by his pregnant girlfriend...

It was like a super high school level despair.

After Sora learned of it, although very sad, she couldn't help but curse Yuu.

Kanade remained silent about this—she had asked Sora to help her collect data from midway, while she herself focused on researching the system, not wanting to see her boyfriend turn into a scoundrel.

Her heart ultimately hadn't become numb. Her boyfriend looking for other girls to date after she died was an unavoidable thing. Although she would be jealous, lonely, and envious, that was still acceptable to her.

But dating five women at once, and even getting one pregnant... That was really too much.

If Kanade didn't want her love to fade, she could only ignore it.

After Yuu died, the Sora in this world arranged his funeral and prepared to follow him.

Before dying, she also said those things to Kanade:

"Although I don't hate you, and I quite sympathize with and admire you... However, there's still the thought that all this started because of you."

"I know you're not the culprit, but can I blame Yuu who's destined to face such a fate? The earliest him just lived well, why couldn't he get what he wanted?"

"Since neither of you is at fault, I can only blame you... Sorry."

"Then, this scoundrel system was clearly made by my previous self to mess up your mentality. Next time use the Heroine Conquest System I developed."

"Tell my next self... I've already included myself in the heroine category. If this time I lose to the evil women outside, we might as well just follow him. Guaranteed true love!"

So, carrying her friend's last words and the renamed system, Kanade once again began her time journey.

In every world, she would immediately seek out Sora, ask her to be her assistant, hand over the recorded data and last words from the previous generation to her. The two of them, repeatedly, tried various changes to save the person they loved.

Hundred and fifth, Life Winner System, failed.

Hundred and twentieth, Ultimate Dream Man System, failed.

Hundred and fiftieth, Realistic Love System, failed.

Hundred and eightieth, Talent Collection System, failed.

Hundred and ninety-ninth...

The situation didn't improve at all.

Despite getting Sora's help, despite the system changing names nearly a hundred times, every conceivable attempt had been made.

Yuu still died from various accidents before high school graduation.

Facing this dead-end situation, although Kanade was disappointed, she wasn't in despair—after going through hundreds of years of time, she seemed to have forgotten what it felt like to love Yuu. There was only an obsession carved deep in her soul that allowed her to never stop until her goal was achieved.

She made another new decision.

If seeking help wouldn't help the current situation, she might as well do it herself.

That way, the Sora in the new world also wouldn't need to know that cruel truth, wouldn't need to be forced to accept the reality of her brother's death, and wouldn't blame his tragic fate on herself...

At the same time, as long as she activated time reversal at the moment Yuu died, her friend wouldn't experience the pain of parting from relatives.

Thus, the two hundred and first.

Kanade no longer sought Sora's help and returned to the loneliness of adjusting the system alone.

She kept trying, kept failing. Although fate was cruel as usual, just one time reversal, everything could return to zero and start again.

She didn't lose her original intention, and hadn't yet become numb. She just got used to it—just like continuously challenging a level ninety-nine demon king with a level one character.

She got used to her helplessness, used to life's fragility, and even more used to seeing all sorts of tragic deaths.

Among these hundreds of attempts, the only thing Kanade couldn't get used to and found hard to forget might be the accident that occurred in the two hundred and seventy-fifth repetition.

The cause was a task she issued through the system.

Because of this task, Yuu's official girlfriend at that time, and a woman who had an ambiguous relationship with him, got into a conflict on the street.

It ended with that woman being pushed into the road by the official girlfriend and hit by a large truck, dying.

No need to discuss how painful the continuation after that was, what was certain was it still ended with Yuu's death... What made Kanade sad was that person could be said to have died because of her.

She herself created the trigger that made this conflict possible. Roundly speaking, she herself killed her. That was truly different from the others.

Most importantly, Kanade had quite a deep impression of this woman.

She basically appeared in every world line and in the end always developed an ambiguous relationship with Yuu—but only to that extent.

She always failed to get the love she desired. Even an ending of becoming one of the harem members never happened. She was always a side character of side characters, an extra girl of extra girls... alias what's commonly called a love loser.

Although she wasn't blonde or had twin tails, and her tsundere element was only slight, this situation was mostly caused by personality problems.

However, in return, she was never dragged into Yuu's fate. Except in the two hundred and seventy-fifth world line, she could always live peacefully until the end, quickly grow from the sadness of heartbreak, and her career would flourish instead.

So, the task that caused her death at that time made Kanade, who now viewed life and death lightly, care so much. Every time she saw her appear, she felt a strange guilt, as if she herself had destroyed her life.

Even so, Kanade only noted it and wouldn't stop her steps because of this.

The three hundredth.

She spent much effort modifying the Life Achievement System. Yuu also did his job well, quickly completing the first four tasks without dating other girls or causing many problems, and activated the final trial.

Since getting the system, the process was so smooth like a revelation. Yuu unconsciously became increasingly mature and strong, learned to keep distance from women, and everything was aimed at completing achievements.

"I am a man who will unlock all achievements. Women will only hinder me from completing tasks!"—The Yuu who uttered these words was almost like a completely different person from before.

At this moment, Kanade's eyes truly sparkled. The lake in her calm heart rarely rippled. Hope that had long been cold reignited.

She saw a glimmer of change.