SSS-Ranked Lust System: Taming Beauties Is My Calling

For several seconds, nobody moved.

David remained inside the combat chamber.

The training construct stood frozen in front of him, one arm still raised.

The system notification had already disappeared.

But the word remained in his mind.

’Host.’

He looked at his hands again.

They looked exactly the same.

No glow.

No strange markings.

Nothing that explained what had just happened.

The door behind him opened.

David turned.

Elaine stood outside.

"Step away from it."

David glanced at the construct.

"Why?"

"Because I said so."

He looked at her.

"That’s not a very scientific explanation."

"David."

Something in her tone made him stop joking.

He stepped backward.

Elaine entered the chamber carefully.

Jenna followed.

Nicole stayed near the doorway.

Lion remained outside.

Elaine crouched beside the construct and examined its chest.

The dent was still there.

She ran her fingers over it.

Then looked at the readings on her tablet.

"Interesting."

David folded his arms.

"That’s not what people usually say when something breaks."

"It didn’t break."

David looked at the construct.

"It stopped moving."

"Yes."

"That’s usually called breaking."

Elaine shook her head.

"The systems are still active."

She tapped the construct’s arm.

Nothing happened.

"The command network is functioning. Power is flowing normally. The emergency shutdown wasn’t triggered by damage."

David frowned.

"Then why did it stop?"

Elaine looked at him.

"I don’t know."

David sighed.

"You’re really starting to make me uncomfortable with that answer."

She stood.

"Come with me."

David followed her out.

The moment he entered the observation room, Jenna closed the door behind him.

David looked at her.

"Why are you closing it?"

"So nothing else gets in."

He stared at her.

"That’s reassuring."

Jenna ignored him.

Elaine placed the tablet on the table.

The graph was still displayed.

David looked at it.

The energy spike was much larger than before.

"That’s mine?"

"Yes."

"How are you measuring it?"

"Multiple sensors."

"Then why couldn’t the first scanner read me?"

Elaine didn’t answer immediately.

She zoomed in on the graph.

"Because this isn’t the same energy."

David frowned.

"What?"

"The scanner was looking for an awakened energy signature."

She pointed at the graph.

"This is different."

"Different how?"

"It appeared only after your body was placed under stress."

David looked at the graph again.

"So my body creates it?"

"We don’t know."

"Again."

Elaine gave him a tired look.

"You’re welcome to take over the laboratory."

David nodded.

"I’d probably break fewer machines."

Nicole laughed.

Jenna covered her mouth.

Elaine stared at both of them.

"Very funny."

David smiled faintly.

The tension in the room eased for half a second.

Then Elaine’s expression became serious again.

"There’s something else."

David stopped smiling.

"What?"

Elaine changed the display.

A second set of readings appeared.

"This is your neural activity."

David looked at the lines.

"That looks complicated."

"It is."

"Can you simplify it?"

Elaine pointed at one section.

"Your brain activity increased during the fight."

"That sounds normal."

"It increased before the attacks happened."

David’s expression changed.

"Before?"

"Yes."

"How far ahead?"

"Less than a second."

"That’s not much."

Elaine looked at him.

"Less than a second is an eternity in combat."

David thought about it.

He remembered the construct moving.

The strange feeling.

The way his body seemed to know where the attacks were going before they happened.

"So my reflexes are getting better."

"Not exactly."

"What else is there?"

Elaine hesitated.

"Prediction."

David stared at her.

"You’re saying I can predict attacks?"

"I’m saying your brain appears to be processing movement before the movement is completed."

David rubbed his chin.

"That sounds like prediction."

"It could be."

"Could?"

Elaine nodded.

"We need more data."

David looked toward the door.

"No."

Elaine raised an eyebrow.

"No?"

"No more fighting machines today."

"Why?"

"Because I’m hungry."

Nicole blinked.

Jenna stared at him.

Elaine looked genuinely confused.

"You’re hungry?"

"Yes."

"After what just happened?"

David looked at her.

"I’ve been hungry since I got here."

Nicole laughed.

Jenna smiled.

Even Elaine seemed to struggle not to.

"You’re unbelievable," Jenna said.

David shrugged.

"That’s what the machines think too."

Lion finally spoke from the back of the room.

"Food first."

Everyone looked at him.

David nodded.

"See? The reasonable one agrees with me."

Lion’s expression didn’t change.

"I didn’t say you were reasonable."

David looked at Jenna.

"I take it back."

She laughed.

Elaine picked up her tablet.

"Fine."

David relaxed.

"But before you leave, I need to ask you something."

His expression became cautious.

"What?"

"During the fight, did you feel stronger?"

David thought about it.

"Yes."

"How much?"

"I don’t know."

"Did it feel like your body was becoming stronger?"

"Not exactly."

Elaine waited.

David searched for the right words.

"It felt like everything was becoming easier."

"Explain."

"The first few attacks were difficult."

He looked at his hands.

"Then I adjusted."

"Adjusted?"

"I don’t know how else to describe it."

David looked toward the combat chamber.

"The first time it attacked, I barely avoided it."

He raised his hand.

"Then I started understanding the movement."

Elaine nodded.

"Continue."

"The faster it became, the easier it was to react."

He paused.

"Then I hit it."

"And?"

"I knew I could."

Elaine’s eyes sharpened.

"You knew?"

David nodded.

"Right before I punched it."

"How?"

"I don’t know."

Elaine leaned back.

That answer seemed to bother her.

David noticed.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"You’re doing the thing again."

"What thing?"

"Looking at me like I’m a problem."

Elaine was silent.

Then she said,

"You’re not a problem."

David waited.

"You’re an unknown."

That somehow sounded worse.

He sighed.

"Great."

Elaine continued.

"Unknown doesn’t mean dangerous."

David looked at her.

"You sure?"

"No."

David stared.

She sighed.

"You’re learning."

"So?"

"So anything that learns that quickly can become dangerous."

The room went quiet.

David couldn’t argue with that.

He looked down.

The system had reacted without his permission.

His body had adapted without him consciously deciding to adapt.

And something had apparently protected him from the neural scan.

That wasn’t normal.

He knew that now.

Jenna stepped beside him.

"But you’re still yourself."

David looked at her.

She gave him a small smile.

"That’s what matters."

David nodded.

Maybe.

He wanted to believe that.

Elaine picked up her tablet again.

"There’s one thing I want you to try."

David immediately looked suspicious.

"If you say ’another test,’ I’m leaving."

"It’s not a test."

"That’s what someone about to give me another test would say."

Elaine ignored him.

"Close your eyes."

David hesitated.

"Why?"

"I want you to pay attention to your body."

David looked at Jenna.

She nodded.

He sighed.

"Fine."

He closed his eyes.

For a few seconds, nothing happened.

He heard the hum of the equipment.

The faint movement of people around him.

His own breathing.

Elaine’s voice came quietly.

"Relax."

David tried.

"Now think about what happened in the chamber."

His mind returned to the fight.

The first attack.

The second.

The speed increasing.

His fist striking the construct.

Nothing.

Then—

A pulse.

David’s eyes opened.

"What was that?"

Elaine frowned.

"You felt something?"

"Yes."

"Where?"

David placed a hand over his chest.

"Here."

Jenna stepped closer.

"What did it feel like?"

David searched for an answer.

"Like..."

He stopped.

"Like something woke up."

Elaine’s expression changed.

"What kind of sensation?"

"Not painful."

"Pressure?"

"No."

"Heat?"

"Not exactly."

David frowned.

"It felt familiar."

That caught everyone’s attention.

"Familiar?" Elaine asked.

"Yeah."

David looked down.

"Like I’d done it before."

Jenna’s eyes narrowed.

"But you haven’t."

"I know."

Elaine moved closer.

"Try again."

David closed his eyes.

He focused.

The sensation returned.

A faint pulse moved through his chest.

Then his arms.

Then his fingertips.

His breathing slowed.

The room seemed to become quieter.

For a moment, he could hear everything.

Jenna’s breathing.

Nicole shifting her weight.

Lion’s heartbeat.

The hum of the machines.

And something else.

Something underneath all of it.

David’s eyes opened.

He looked toward the floor.

"What is that?"

Elaine frowned.

"What?"

"That sound."

Nobody answered.

David listened.

Thump.

A pause.

Thump.

His expression changed.

"It’s coming from below."

Lion’s head lifted.

Jenna looked at Elaine.

Elaine immediately checked her tablet.

"There shouldn’t be anything underneath this section."

Thump.

The entire room vibrated.

David stepped backward.

"That."

The lights flickered.

Elaine’s tablet displayed a warning.

[Unidentified Energy Fluctuation.]

David stared.

The system appeared.

[Unknown Energy Detected.]

His heart dropped.

’Again?’

The notification changed.

[Source: External.]

David looked at Elaine.

"Did you see that?"

She stared at her tablet.

"See what?"

"Your sensors detected something."

"Yes."

The floor vibrated again.

This time, everyone felt it.

Jenna’s hand moved toward her weapon.

Lion straightened.

Nicole stepped away from the wall.

Elaine stared at the readings.

"The energy is increasing."

David looked down.

"From where?"

Elaine’s fingers moved rapidly across the screen.

"Below us."

Another pulse.

Stronger.

The monitors flickered.

Then one of them went completely black.

David frowned.

"What is this place?"

Elaine didn’t answer.

"Elaine."

She looked at him.

"This facility is built over an old underground structure."

David’s eyebrows rose.

"Old how?"

"Very old."

"How old?"

She hesitated.

"Older than the organization."

David stared at her.

"How much older?"

"We don’t know."

"That’s not a comforting sentence."

"It’s not meant to be."

Jenna stepped toward Elaine.

"You said this place was secure."

"It is."

"Then why is something underneath it waking up?"

Elaine didn’t answer.

A deep rumble passed through the building.

Dust fell from the ceiling.

Then the system appeared again.

[Unknown Energy Detected.]

[External Source Identified.]

David’s eyes widened.

A second line appeared.

[Source: Unknown Entity.]

He stared at it.

The word made his stomach tighten.

’Entity.’

The floor beneath them suddenly cracked.

Everyone moved.

Jenna grabbed Nicole and pulled her backward.

Lion stepped in front of Elaine.

David jumped away as a thin black line spread across the floor.

It stopped directly beneath him.

The system flickered.

[Host Recognition Detected.]

David froze.

’Host recognition?’

The crack began glowing faintly.

Not brightly.

Just enough for him to see something beneath the floor.

A symbol.

Seven circles.

The same pattern he’d seen on the system.

The same pattern that had appeared during the combat test.

David slowly crouched.

"What is that?"

Elaine stared.

Her face had gone pale.

"I don’t know."

David looked at her.

"You’ve seen it before."

She didn’t answer.

"Elaine."

She swallowed.

"Not here."

"Where?"

She looked toward him.

"On the entrance records."

David’s expression changed.

"What records?"

"The records of the organization."

Another pulse shook the room.

Elaine continued quietly.

"The symbol appeared once before."

"Where?"

She looked down at the glowing circles.

"Thirty-two years ago."

David’s eyes narrowed.

"What happened then?"

Elaine stared at him.

"The entire research team disappeared."

Silence.

David looked at the floor again.

The symbol pulsed.

Once.

Twice.

Then the system appeared.

[Connection Established.]

David’s blood ran cold.

[Host recognized.]

[Unknown source attempting communication.]

He stared at the notification.

"Communication?"

The lights went out.

Complete darkness swallowed the room.

Then a voice spoke.

Not through the speakers.

Not through the walls.

Inside his head.

’David.’

His entire body froze.

Nobody else reacted.

The voice continued.

’You took long enough.’

David’s heart hammered.

He couldn’t move.

He couldn’t breathe.

Because he knew that voice.

Not from a memory.

Not from a dream.

From somewhere deeper.

Somewhere he couldn’t explain.

The voice laughed softly.

’Come downstairs.’

David stared into the darkness.

The system appeared one final time.

[Unknown Entity has identified the Host.]

[Classification: Pending.]

David’s fingers slowly curled into fists.

’What the hell have I gotten myself into?’

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