Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 905

Chapter 905: Road Home

The car doors closed on the sound of a world trying to survive its own imagination.

For the first minute, nobody spoke.

Luna hated silence as a matter of identity, but even she seemed to understand that this one had earned its spot. She sat with both boots planted on the floor for once, elbows on her knees, purple hair falling forward while she stared at nothing.

Then she turned to Kaiden.

"So."

Nyx sighed. "Here we go."

"No. You don’t exist, shut up."

"Wait, what?"

Luna ignored the amused grin of the pink-haired beauty and pointed toward the ceiling of the car. "I didn’t want to say it in there, knowing the fuckers were listening in. But I now must say my piece."

"Go for it~" Bastet purred, lounging in her chair with both legs drawn up, comfortable, letting the city blur past.

"Okay, so..." Luna cleared her throat. "The Claimant was a fucking mountain range. A mountain range. We watched that bastard jump and turn the sky into falling stone, and that was the biggest thing humanity had ever seen."

"Yes," Kaiden said.

"That thing made the Claimant look like a pet rock."

Calypso considered that with genuine care. "Pebble is not a pet rock. He is a very large dog."

"Cali..." Kaiden said tiredly.

"Sorry, Darling, Gremlin. Serious mode Calypso initiating." Calypso straightened in her seat, failing to look serious.

"Well, I’ll get over it. It probably was just a very fucking menacing projection of sorts..." Luna murmured as she kept staring at him, then asked what she really cared about. "Are you okay?"

There it was.

The profanity, insults, and competitive dodges were gone. Just the question, blunt as a thrown brick.

Kaiden stared at his hands.

Human hands, according to every machine the Association had not broken.

He nodded. "I certainly feel like it. Despite what happened there, I don’t think I was physically affected by it. I don’t even feel drained."

"Good..." the gamer girl looked at him, worry poorly hidden beneath the easy tone.

Outside the tinted glass, people were still running after the convoy, phones lifted, faces wet, voices lost behind the hum of wards and engine noise.

Inside, Kaiden sat surrounded by the women who had watched the sky open above him and still chosen to stand closer rather than back away.

The test said he was human.

The world, however, might need longer to believe it.

...

Ten minutes later and after some seat reshuffling, Luna was still going.

The appearance of the Original Sin was a big shocker even for her, who knew of its existence.

"Seven arms," she said, for at least the fourth time. "Who designs a cosmic horror with an odd number of arms? That’s just the developer being creepy for the sake of making an unsettling character."

Nyx leaned her cheek against the window. "Maybe symmetry isn’t a universal constant."

"I mean... The implication behind the seven arms is pretty obvious, right?" Aria spoke up. "Each represents one of the seven deadly sins. Wrath, Gluttony, Pride, Lust, Greed, Sloth, Envy."

"Yeah, okay, can I just crash out about the cosmic horror in peace, you damned bimbos?" Luna grumbled through gritted teeth, arms folded under her delicate chest.

"...Sorry?" Aria giggled.

"...There’s a reason I don’t watch horror movies with you all. Aside from the fact that you’d keep climbing over Kai," Luna sighed.

Then, unbothered by the mood killers that the others were, she added, still shaken, "It was like we were ants on a rock... Just the eye, bigger than a city, perhaps the whole nation... God fucking damn that’s epic."

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