In the Name of God - Chapter 59.1
<Remaining Time : 00:00:00>
<The time limit has been exceeded.>
Deep within my unconsciousness, I faintly regained my senses.
Even though I had not yet opened my eyes, a blue system window appeared in my field of vision.
<The shadow fragment is initiating forced synchronization.>
This is bad.
I should have synchronized in advance before the time limit ran out.
Thinking that an immense amount of pain would strike me just like last time, I braced myself internally.
However, strangely enough, I remained submerged within my unconsciousness.
<Confirmed that the mental body is temporarily separated from its connection to the physical body.>
<Penalty is temporarily suspended.>
I could not understand what that meant, but I thought that if the status ailment was being suspended, it might be bearable.
But as it turned out, I was wrong.
I still felt nothing and did not wake from my slumber.
If synchronization had begun, pain certainly should have followed.
“Is it because I am unconscious?”
Since it is the physical body that is affected by synchronization, I thought there might be no impact while the mental body was temporarily separated from it.
<Synchronization with the shadow fragment is complete.>
<The separated mental body is reconnecting with the physical body.>
Along with the message of completed synchronization, I felt as if I were falling from a great height without any safety equipment.
As my eyes snapped open, a massive amount of light flooded in, and white noise suddenly rushed into my ears that had previously heard nothing.
“Gasp!”
My breath, which had been blocked for a long time, returned in a ragged burst. A familiar scent wrapped around the tip of my nose.
“What is this?”
Waking up as if having a seizure was strange enough, but I had absolutely no strength in my entire body. It was severely numb and tingling, twitching of its own accord, and nothing moved according to my will.
“Calm down and breathe slowly.”
A gentle voice reached me.
Only then did I realize that someone was holding me and patting my back. Unconsciously, I repeated the cycle of inhaling and exhaling in time with that steady patting. It felt as if my thoughts, which had been as sluggish as a stretched tape, were slowly regaining their function.
“Lee… Sunho…?”
“Yes, I am here.”
“I… what happened… how…”
Because I was just beginning to steady my breathing, the words would not even come out properly.
Lee Sunho understood what I was trying to ask and answered calmly.
“When I returned from the disaster district, you were groaning without even being able to wake up.”
“Ah…”
I recalled the message I saw within my unconsciousness.
The time limit had been exceeded, and forced synchronization had proceeded.
And judging by the message currently floating before my eyes, it seemed the synchronization had finished completely.
<Shadow Adaptation : 7%>
“What. It did not even hurt that much thanks to being in a deep sleep?”
Although I was exhausted to the point where I could not even steady my body, I could endure this much.
On the other hand, I shuddered at the fact that such an aftermath remained even though the entire process was already over. If I had synchronized while conscious, I might not have been able to endure it, no matter how used to the pain I was.
In the midst of that, I felt grateful to Lee Sunho, who had checked my condition immediately after returning from the disaster district and acted as a human painkiller. It meant he had checked if I was sleeping well and how my condition was, even though he must have been tired from being called away so suddenly.
As my vision recovered, I saw Lee Sunho staring at me with a burdensome level of intensity.
“…Thanks. You must have had a hard time as soon as you arrived.”
“It was nothing. I was a bit startled when you coughed up a handful of blood, but I handled it quickly.”
Lee Sunho smiled kindly. No wonder his clothes had been changed.
Truly, this guy is recklessly kind.
Feeling strength gradually returning to my body, I was about to ask him how things were at the disaster district when—
<Applying the suspended penalty.>
The penalty notification I had forgotten about appeared.
Since the synchronization is already over, can’t they just skip the penalty?
Still, I was not anxious.
Last time, it was incredibly painful because I had to endure the penalty alongside the synchronization, but this time was different.
The human painkiller was right next to me, and the synchronization was already finished. In my current state, I would be more than able to endure it.
<One of the ‘Seven Deadly Status Ailments’ will be imposed as a penalty.>
However, this damned system seemed to have some sort of grudge against me, as things never went the way I expected.
<Status Ailment : Lust>
<A state of estrus occurs due to a surge in sexual desire levels.>
<Duration : 24 hours>
Is this thing insane?
“Weren’t penalties supposed to be related to pain?”
My mind went blank at the unexpected penalty.
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