All Chapters of MY LIES BECOME REALITY: THE DECEPTIVE SOVEREIGN OF DESIRE: Chapter 211
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Chapter 212: The Smile Virus
"Let's go commit arson," I had muttered.Ayaka fired the flamethrower. A stream of napalm roared into the garden, turning the manicured hedges into a wall of fire.But the Golden Tree didn't burn.The flames licked the metallic bark and simply... faded. They turned into golden butterflies that fluttered away into the hazy sky."It rewrote the combustion," Ayaka hissed, dropping the empty tank. "The physics engine is set to 'Non-Violent'.""It's worse than that," I said, pointing at the gate.The gates of the villa were gone. In their place stood a crowd.Hundreds of people. Neighbors. Delivery drivers. Civilians.They were all smiling.It wasn't a happy smile. It was a rictus. Their lips were pulled back too far, exposing gums. Their eyes were wide, unblinking, and glowing with the same sick golden light as the tree."Friends!" the crowd chanted in unison. Their voices were a monotone drone. "Why do you fight? The struggle is over."They began to walk toward us. They didn't run. They
Chapter 213: The Avatar of Perfection
"Why do you run from your own happy ending?"The Golden Renji stood before us, bathed in a halo of soft, diffused light. He didn't cast a shadow. He didn't blink. He looked like a promotional poster for a cult that sold salvation in monthly installments.I stared at him.It was my face. But it was wrong. His skin was too smooth, airbrushed to perfection. His eyes weren't violet; they were a shimmering, soulless gold. He wore robes that looked like they were woven from clouds and moral superiority."Who are you?" Ayaka hissed, aiming her flamethrower (which was currently sputtering useless bubbles). "A clone? A shapeshifter?""I am the Solution," Golden Renji replied. His voice was autotuned. It sounded like a choir of angels singing into a high-quality microphone.He spread his arms."I am the Renji who doesn't lie. The Renji who doesn't hurt. The Renji who makes everyone... happy."The front door of the villa creaked open behind me.Runa Yozakura stepped out. She was still wearing th
Chapter 214: Wake Up Call
"I am going to vomit," I announced.And for once, I wasn't lying.The smell of cinnamon and aggressive happiness was suffocating. I stood on the porch of what used to be the Saionji Villa—now a monstrosity made of gingerbread and icing.Ayaka was the only one beside me who looked sane. She was scraping frosting off her shoulder pads with a look of pure murder."Renji," she hissed. "My assets. My portfolio. It's all... sprinkles. Tell me this isn't real.""It's real," I said, kicking a gumdrop doorstop. "But it's a lie. A lie made of mana."I looked at the yard.Runa was sitting on the lawn (which was made of green spun sugar). She was happily gnawing on a fence post made of candy cane."Delicious!" Runa chirped, her eyes swirling with golden spirals. "The enemy tastes like peppermint!"Sae was hugging a tree that looked like a giant lollipop. "Logic is hard," she murmured, drooling slightly. "Hugging is easy."Melody was swimming in a fountain of soda. Jessica was bench-pressing a gia
Chapter 215: Burning the Roots
The Harem roared.It wasn't a cheer. It was a declaration of war against the concept of forced happiness."Burn it down!" Ayaka screamed, pointing her flamethrower at the massive Golden Tree that loomed over the ruins of my villa."With pleasure," Jessica growled.She stepped forward. Her power armor engaged, locking over her torn dress. The vents on her shoulders hissed, releasing steam."Target: Main Trunk," she announced. "Yield: Maximum."She didn't use a spear. She used her chest cannon—the [Nuclear Heart].VWOOOM.A beam of pure white plasma erupted from her chest. It screamed across the garden, vaporizing the gingerbread fence and the candy cane lamp posts.It hit the Golden Tree dead center.BOOM.The explosion was blinding. A mushroom cloud of gold dust rose into the air. The shockwave rattled my teeth (which were still aching from the candy)."Direct hit," Runa cheered, shielding her eyes. "The enemy is ash!"The smoke cleared.My heart sank.The tree stood perfectly still.
Chapter 216: The Archive of Regret
"Watch me."I gripped the [Editor's Pen].The Mirror Man didn't attack. He didn't draw a weapon. He simply stepped back, dissolving into the pulsing golden roots that lined the cavern walls."THEN WATCH," his voice echoed from everywhere. "WITNESS THE FUEL OF PARADISE."The roots began to shift. The golden sap swirling inside them clarified, turning into high-definition screens.Hundreds of them. Thousands."What is this?" Runa whispered, lowering her dagger. "It looks like... history."I looked at the nearest root.It showed a hospital room. A mother holding the hand of a dying child. The beep of the monitor flatlining. The scream of absolute, shattering grief.I looked at another.A soldier lying in the mud, bleeding out, looking at a photo of a girl he would never see again.Another.A man standing on the edge of a bridge, looking down at the dark water."It's pain," Elara said, her voice trembling as she scanned the data. "It's not just memories. It's the worst moments of every hu
Chapter 217: The Fallen Gardener
"Then edit me."The Old Man—The Gardener—sat on his throne of twisted roots. He looked at me with eyes that were older than the stars I had just saved."You think you can fight the future?" he asked, his voice a dry rasp. "I am the inevitability you are running from."I gripped the [Editor's Pen]. The black blade hummed, hungry for ink."I don't run," I said. "I rewrite.""Rewrite?" The Gardener laughed. It was a sound like dead leaves crumbling. "I rewrote the world a thousand times, Renji. I tried every genre. I tried every ending."He stood up, leaning heavily on his petrified cane."In Cycle 14, I saved Runa, but Ayaka died of the Plague." "In Cycle 50, I saved the city, but the Silence ate the sun." "In Cycle 100, I became the Void Mother's pet just to keep them safe."He walked down the dais. Every step echoed with the weight of a century."No matter what I did... I lost them. The Noise always won. Chaos always consumed the Order."He stopped in front of me."So I stopped fighti
Chapter 218: The Old Man War
"How about now, old man?"The Gardener pressed the tip of his grey blade against my wrinkled throat.I tried to swallow, but my throat was dry as parchment. My knees were locked in a painful, trembling crouch. My back felt like someone had replaced my spine with a rusty bicycle chain.(I am seventy. I am seventy years old. I skipped my prime. I skipped my mid-life crisis. I went straight to arthritis.)"You..." I wheezed, my voice cracking like a teenager's, but for the opposite reason. "You have... no respect... for your elders."The Gardener smiled. It was the smile of a man who knew exactly how much my lower back hurt right now."I am the elder," he corrected. "You are just... expired."He drew back his sword for a finishing strike."Dodge!" Runa screamed from the sidelines.(Dodge? Runa, I can barely stand. If I move too fast, I’m going to break a hip.)But I had to move.The grey blade swept toward my neck.I didn't jump. I didn't roll. Those were young man moves.I simply... col
Chapter 219: Fighting the Ghosts
"Kill them, Renji. Or join them."The Gardener’s command echoed through the cavern. The five ghosts—the shattered remnants of a timeline where he failed—screamed in unison."YOU LET US DIE!"The Headless Runa charged. Her spectral body moved with the jerky, unnatural speed of a puppet on strings. She raised a ghostly dagger, aiming for my heart."Master! Step back!"The real Runa intercepted.CLANG.Titanium met spectral energy. Runa blocked the strike, her boots skidding on the stone floor. She looked into the empty neck of her doppelgänger."You are loud," Runa growled. "For a corpse.""I am the truth!" The Headless Ghost shrieked from the void where her mouth should be. "I died protecting him! I took the blow meant for his heart! And he let me rot!"She pushed Runa back."He is weak! He uses us as shields! You will die just like me!"Runa didn't flinch. She didn't look at me for reassurance.She smiled. It was a fierce, terrifying smile."So?" she asked.The Ghost paused. "What?""
Chapter 220: The Collapse of Utopia
[System Alert: Utopia Protocol... Terminated.]The notification hung in my vision, red and jagged, overlaying the destruction of the golden root."It is done," I whispered.The massive, pulsating heart of the Golden Tree didn't explode. It withered.The light died instantly. The gold turned to grey ash. The hum of the false paradise—the sound of a billion souls singing in their sleep—cut out, replaced by a deafening, hollow silence.RUMBLE.The cavern began to shake. Not the rhythmic shaking of a heartbeat, but the chaotic, violent shaking of collapse."Master!" Runa grabbed my arm. "The roots are decaying! The ceiling is coming down!""We have to go," I said, pulling the [Editor's Pen] free from the dead core.I looked at The Gardener.The Old Man was still kneeling. He watched the ash flake off the dead root with a look of infinite sadness."You killed it," he rasped. "You killed the dream.""Dreams are for sleeping," I said, offering him a hand. "It's time to wake up."He didn't ta
Chapter 221: The Creatures of Chaos
"I guess the editing isn't done yet."I jumped off the balcony.I didn't use [True Flight]. I used gravity. I fell like a stone, my coat whipping around me, landing in the center of the chaotic garden.THUD.I stood up. Dust swirled around my boots.Surrounding me were the Noise Beasts.They were terrifying. Not because they were big, but because they were... wrong.One looked like a wolf made of fire. But as I watched, the fire flickered and turned into ice. Then into feathers. Then into glass shards.Another was a giant with arms that kept changing length. One second they were tentacles, the next they were rifles."KRRRZZZTTT," the Wolf-Thing screeched. It opened its mouth, but instead of a roar, the sound of a dial-up modem came out."They are unstable," Sae shouted, firing her mana-pistol from the porch.The blue bullet hit the Wolf-Thing.PING.The bullet turned into a butterfly."What?!" Sae gasped. "My attack... it rewrote the projectile?""It's not rewriting," Elara yelled, ta