Echoes

Summary

Before the mission, I asked Stefan Goldberg one last time, “Will you marry me?”

He was silent for a moment. “Fine.”

My heart and the System’s virtual one dropped in unison. We’re screwed.

Wasn’t the deal that after being rejected a hundred times, I could finally return to my own world?

As it turned out, my panic was premature.

On my final mission, I became the sacrificial lamb for his first love.

Stefan spent three days by her side before he even remembered me.

And when he did, all he heard was that I had died in the line of duty.