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Chapter 15
The words on the panel did not move. Damien stood in the early light and waited.[First Mission Generated: Protect the Resting Place.][Condition: Stop the destruction of the West family graves.][Checking progress...]He frowned. The graves were safe. The men were gone. The excavator was lying on its side behind him like a dead animal. There was nothing left to protect, at least for tonight.The panel flashed again.[Mission complete. The Host finished this mission before it was issued.][Rating: A. Reason: the graves were saved, no life was taken, and strong evidence was collected.][Rebate: $1,000,000 has been sent to the Host's account.][Fate Points +10. Current Fate Points: 60/100.]Damien let out a short laugh. It was a tired laugh, and there was not much joy in it. Last night he had been ready to die for these graves. Now a screen was giving him a grade for it, like a teacher marking his homework.But he still took out his phone and opened his bank app. The new money was alrea
Chapter 14
The men rose slowly, helping each other stand. Two of them had to carry a third between them. They moved toward the gate without looking back, and when the last of them had gone through, the boss lingered for a moment, his shoulders sagging, his eyes fixed on the grass."Mister," he said in a low voice. "I don't know what you are. But he's not going to stop. A man like Nathaniel doesn't stop.""I know," Damien said.The boss nodded once, as if he had expected that answer, and then he walked out after the others.Damien listened to the sound of their truck starting, then fading down the road until it disappeared completely. Only then did he let out a breath that felt like it had been trapped in his chest for hours.The moment he did, a soft chime rang inside his head.A glowing panel opened in front of his eyes, clear and calm against the darkness of the cemetery.[Host's emotional state: unstable but controlled. Evaluating.][Basic Rules of the Fate Rewind Rebate System, Summary][Rul
Chapter 13
The boss stared at the glowing phone as if it were a snake about to bite him."Please," he whispered. "If I call him now, if he hears what happened here, he'll...""He'll what?" Damien asked. "Be angry with you? He already planned to kill me tonight. I don't think your situation can get much worse."The boss lowered his head. There was nothing left in his face except defeat. With a shaking finger, he tapped the name on the screen, pressed the speaker button, and held the phone out between them, close to the grass where everyone could hear.The line rang once. Twice. Then it picked up so fast that it was clear Nathaniel had been holding his own phone the whole time."Where the hell have you been?" Nathaniel's voice burst out of the speaker, sharp and furious. "I have been calling you for half an hour! Why didn't you pick up? Is it finished? Tell me it's finished."The boss opened his mouth, but no sound came out."Hello? Are you there? I asked you a question!" Nathaniel's voice grew lo
Chapter 12
He turned around and looked at the field.The men were still lying where they had fallen. Some of them were awake and watching him with wide eyes, afraid even to breathe too loudly. Others were holding their ribs and trying to sit up. Damien walked slowly across the grass and stopped in front of the nearest one."Get up," he said.The man tried and failed, then tried again. He managed to stand, swaying on his feet."All of you," Damien said louder. "Get up. Now."One by one, the men dragged themselves to their feet. There were more than fifteen of them, and not a single one dared to look him in the eyes. Their clothes were torn and dirty. A few of them were bleeding from the nose or the mouth. The tough men who had been laughing and blowing smoke on his sister's grave were now standing in a crooked line like schoolboys waiting for punishment.Damien pointed at the ground in front of the graves."You see all of that?" His finger moved across the grass, over the cigarette butts that wer
Chapter 11
The words faded as quickly as they had come. Damien let out a long, slow breath. So that was it. That was why his arm had not broken. That was why the bucket had stopped. The System had done something, and he had not even known how to ask for it.He lifted his head. There was only one man still standing.The boss had backed all the way up against a tree near the edge of the cemetery. His face was white. His phone had slipped out of his hand and lay on the ground near his shoes, and he did not dare to bend down and pick it up. The lazy, mocking look from before was gone, and what was left was pure terror.Damien walked toward him, one slow step at a time. The gravel crunched under his shoes. Nobody else made a sound."No... wait," the boss stammered, raising both hands in front of his chest. "Wait, let's talk. This is just a misunderstanding. We were only doing our jobs. You don't understand, we didn't have a choice."Damien stopped right in front of him. He grabbed the man's collar wi
Chapter 10
The steel bucket hung in the air, stopped dead inside Damien's open palm.For a few seconds, nobody in the cemetery moved. The engine of the excavator was still roaring, the arm was still shaking from the force it was pushing with, and the operator inside the cab was still pulling every lever he had, but the bucket did not move forward even one inch. It just sat there against Damien's hand like a toy that a child had caught in mid-air.Damien himself could not believe it.He had raised his hand without thinking, without planning, only because he had nothing else left to do. He had expected pain. He had expected the bucket to crush his arm, and then his chest, and then the graves behind him. But there was no pain. There was only a strange heat running from his shoulder down to his fingers, like something inside his body had woken up and decided to hold the weight for him.The laughter had died completely. The men who had been joking and smoking a minute ago were now standing frozen wit
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