Chapter 12: Simulation Over
[The next day a bouncer comes to your room and invites you to see the council. You follow the bouncer, expecting to be completely done with this city. After walking for a while, you find yourself in a hall with a large table, and you are immediately intrigued by a blue-haired girl sitting on the floor in the center of the round table, bound with chains]
[After a short conversation, you learn that the Council members have given you this girl. If Powder, Jinx as the council members call her, escapes from you, you will go to prison in her place to serve the rest of her sentence. You look confusedly at Jayce sitting on a couch and he looks away. Meanwhile, the chained girl with her hair dragging on the floor turns her head to look at you and she is shocked]
[As the conversation goes on for a while, you realize what's going on. The Council is playing you to have the upper hand against Ambessa in the future. By giving Jinx to you, saying that you are a good fighter, they both avoid the attempts of Vi and her henchmen to harass the prison and make use of Jinx, who is already nearing the end of his prison term.]
[Gritting your teeth, you are forced to accept their offer and go and untie Jinx]
[A month after taking Jinx with you, someone wakes you up one night and you open your eyes to find Vi. Immediately on the defensive, Vi bows down to thank you. When Jinx was given to you, she found out immediately, but she spied on you. In the last month Jinx hasn't said a word, but thanks to you and her playing with the machines like you used to, Jinx is much improved. Seeing this, Vi tells you to keep taking care of her, bows to her once more, and then leaves the room]
[Another year has passed. You're sitting in your studio and out of habit you turn on the coffee machine on the table and suddenly it explodes, causing blue paint all over you. You're about to shout Powder's name when you notice a blue pigtail disappearing around the corner of the door, brushing against the floor]
[You catch Powder after you chase her. Powder, who has never come into contact with the shimmer, is no match for you. While you're thinking about how to punish Powder, Powder starts to provoke you. She says that you are not a man and if you were, you would tie her to the bed. Of course, you don't take her words seriously, but you pretend to accept her offer to have fun with her. The fear and redness on Powder's face makes you smile]
[The next day you wake up and see Powder lying naked on your chest and you sigh. You think this joke might have gone a little too far]
Eren smiled quietly and found the whole thing amusing, but he wasn't happy about it. Fortunately, Ambessa's influence should still be there, so the character in the simulation couldn't have fallen in love with Jinx enough to chase after her for dozens of simulations. If nothing else, this was what Eren was hoping to see.
Maybe making Jinx's life better would have improved the simulation's rating, but Eren figured that in order to get an absurd rating like SSS, his character would have to focus on Hextech technology and get stronger to challenge a being like Aurelion Sol.
[Your relationship with Powder changed rapidly after this day and the next week was very difficult for you. This little girl was so needy of love and she was not afraid to drain you dry. You sit at your desk thinking about the events of the last week and you hear the sound of a girl laughing coming from the other room. Thinking that she has booby-trapped you again, you reach for your refurbished coffee machine, your mind full of perverse ideas to punish her. Unfortunately, what you can't predict is that when you press the button, a blue bead wrapped in energy particles falls out of the coffee machine. At this moment, an electrical fault occurs in the coffee machine and the electricity comes into contact with the unstable hextech bead you are holding in your hand]
[Simulation over]
Eren gets up from the bed in surprise, causing Hana to wake up. When he and Hana lock eyes, Eren forces himself to get over the shock of what happened in the simulation. "I woke you up by mistake, I'm sorry."
Hana slowly came to her senses at this moment, and she sat up and pressed herself against Eren's chest. The half-drunkenness of having just woken up had made him a little bolder than usual. "If you want water, just let me know, my chipmunk."
Eren was briefly surprised by the way she addressed him but didn't show anything strange. He also sent Hana to get some water because his throat was really dry. "Actually, I can get it myself." Hana jumped out of bed to get water before Eren could respond to her kind words.
Hana had just had a dream about Eren while she was sleeping, and in the dream, Eren had called her a little chipmunk. When she suddenly woke up and saw Eren, she accidentally addressed him as if she was still in the dream. When Hana realized what had just happened, she immediately ran out of bed with her face painted red. The room was dimly lit, so Eren only saw her tiptoeing silently into the living room like a real rabbit.
As soon as Hana left the room, Eren turned his head to look at the simulation again.
Eren wanted to react to the fact that the simulation had ended for no apparent reason, but he realized the truth. Powder is a girl whose clumsiness and bad luck cost the lives of many people in the show. Moreover, in his simulated self, the talent he acquired in this simulation made him agile and clumsy.
It was actually surprising that two extremely clumsy people could even survive for a year after coming together. The fact that Jinx and the simulated self could cause an atomic bomb despite being together for so long is fascinating enough. After all, their coming together is as explosive as two atoms having sex.