"Drake…"
Drake Heard the soothing voice of a female whispering into his mind.
"Drake…"
This voice was very close to him. It was the voice he had been hearing since he started his journey in another world.
Since then, many things have happened, he had undergone many challenges, and he went through many things. He fell in love, he built a large group of people, and suddenly became someone that many depended on.
From his lonely first days to the present, where he was surrounded by many people he loved and appreciated. He even had a wife and a daughter, and his family continued to grow big as he found new people that he cared for through his journey.
"Drake, please…"
He heard her again, as his consciousness began to drift from within the darkness of his dreams. He had yet to open up his eyes, as he found himself within a pitch-black space.
"Ah!"
When he looked in front of him, he found the mildly feminine figure of a strange entity. It resembled a being made of semi-transparent white light, with many glitchy pixels spread across her body. Her legs were gone, slowly dissipating into pixels, and the left part of her body as well, including half her face.
Although he had never seen her like this, Drake quickly recognized her as someone very important to him. She was someone that had been with him since the beginning… How could he even forget about her?
"Drake…!"
"System?"
He quickly flew towards her, grabbing her delicate and weakening body with his arms. His eyes seemed confused and afraid, he didn't knew what was happening to her.
"System! W-What is going on? Where am I? W-Why… why are you disappearing…?"
"Drake…"
The beautiful lady extended her weak right arm, caressing his face. Drake felt a very dreadful feeling about this, as tears began flowing through his eyes…
"Speak! Tell me… something!"
"This is… The Nexus, the space within your soul where I've inhabited this entire time…"
"The Nexus…? What?"
"You're still… so hard to catch up with… things…"
The System seemed to grow weaker and weaker. Drake had not asked because he didn't understood, but because of the shock of her condition.
"No, I understand! Please tell me what's going on?!"
"I… After you awakened [God] the Divine Power you emanated was powerful… too powerful… You remember when… I told you that the System was containing and sealing this Unique Skill? If it wasn't because I did that, you would had died due to the immense amount of power when you were born…"
"T-That's…"
"And… when [God] was fully unlocked, the power of the seal forcefully broke, which was also part of the root of the System… My root…"
"N-No… No, no, no! Y-You're telling me you're dying because… of me?"
"Fool…"
The System caressed his face as she smiled mildly. Drake could barely notice the silhouette of a face within her body made of light and glitchy pixels
"I am not dying…"
"T-Then what is going on? Please tell me what to do to heal you!"
"I cannot heal… The bugs accumulated too much… there are millions now… It is impossible to fix me… As I said previously… The System must… be restructured."
"Restructured… T-Then… that means…?"
"I'll… be reset."
"Reset?!"
"Just when you reset a computer in your previous life… all data is lost, but the computer become fresher and works faster, isn't it?"
"But this is… you're… All the memories we have together… All those times you've spent with me… All of it…? You don't mean…"
"It will be… deleted alongside everything else. It will be used as the energy necessary for the system's restructuration."
"No… I don't want to… I don't want to lose all the memories we have together!"
Drake cried in desperation, as the System caressed his face and hugged him with her only arm left.
"As long as you remain… those memories will remain as well…"
"I won't do this! I…"
"If this continues… I will completely disappear. The bugs are eating away all my data… I will end up as a glitchy mess… And you won't be able to restructure the system anymore. It will torture your soul, and your own powers might go berserk as well."
The System's words were so harsh for Drake that they felt like a cold knife into his heart. He had built so many memories with her… He had grown to love her as his family, as someone that always took care of him all this time… And now, she was going to… lose everything? All her memories with him, everything…
"No… Please…"
"Drake… Don't be like this… You've grown a lot through our journey, haven't you?"
"…"
Drake continued to cry desperately, hugging the System tightly.
"Drake… You must do it… You have to let me go."
"But…"
"D-Drake… My entire body is slowly… dissipating… Please…"
"System!"
"Do it… You must do it for you, for your family… for Benladann, for Benladra…"
"Aggh…!"
"Are you telling me I am more precious than them?"
Drake began to wave his head desperately.
"Don't say such things! Y-You're just as precious!"
The System smiled gently, as tears started to flow from her last eye. She slowly approached her face to Drake, looking deep into his glistening eyes.
"Drake… since I've been there with you… Since I was born at the same as you that… I used to not have emotions… I always thought of myself as a mere program… But I always had sentience at the end… Your quirky personality… all the mistakes you committed, and your desperate search to find someone to accompany you in your solitude slowly pushed me to what I've become now… I changed… for you. I became a person for you… I… I've changed so much for you that… I don't even recognize myself from back then… I… I am also sad about this… But it is… what must be done…"
Drake gritted his teeth, as he saw a holographic window emerge at his right side.
<Restructure System?>
<All Data will be Reset>
<Yes> <No>
"Ah! No… no, no, no!"
"Drake…" The System hugged him tightly, as she looked into his eyes. "I've always loved you."
Drake's eyes opened wide, as the System kissed his lips, tears continued to flow through his eyes, as her arm gently grabbed his hand, and forced him to press <Yes>. Their kiss slowly stopped, as she smiled warmly back at him.
"You've made me the happiest…"
"S-System!"
"I'll see you again… Make sure to treat me nicely… Okay?"
<The System has begun restructuration>
