SSS-Ranked Lust System: Taming Beauties Is My Calling
Chapter 138: Something Else Is HereThe seventh door slammed shut.
And every other door opened at once.
David didn’t move.
For several seconds, nothing happened.
No voice.
No system notification.
No movement beyond the doors.
Only darkness.
Six open doorways stood around him, each leading into a different kind of darkness.
David slowly turned.
The first door contained a corridor.
White walls.
White floor.
White ceiling.
Everything clean.
Too clean.
He recognized it immediately.
The facility.
But not the ruined version.
This one was intact.
The second door showed a forest.
Rain fell through black branches.
The third contained a room filled with mirrors.
The fourth was completely empty.
The fifth contained a staircase descending into darkness.
The sixth—
David stopped.
A bedroom.
Small.
Simple.
A bed pushed against one wall.
A wooden desk.
A window.
A stuffed rabbit sitting beside a pillow.
His childhood room.
David’s expression barely changed.
"That’s cheap."
Silence.
He stepped closer.
The room didn’t react.
Nothing reached for him.
Nothing tried to pull him inside.
That bothered him more.
He looked toward the other doors.
"So which one am I supposed to choose?"
No answer.
David folded his arms.
"You’re getting worse at this."
The darkness remained silent.
David waited.
Five seconds.
Ten.
Nothing.
His mouth twitched.
"Fine."
He stepped toward the childhood room.
The moment his foot crossed the threshold, the world changed.
He was twelve again.
David stood beside the bed.
His smaller hands were trembling.
A bruise covered his cheek.
Someone was crying outside the room.
He recognized the voice.
His mother.
"Please."
A man’s voice answered.
"He’s already showing signs."
"He doesn’t understand."
"He doesn’t need to."
David stared at his younger self.
The boy was sitting on the floor, knees pulled against his chest.
His eyes were empty.
Not frightened.
Empty.
David crouched.
"You remember this?"
The boy didn’t look at him.
"They’re going to take me."
David’s expression tightened.
"Who?"
The boy pointed toward the door.
David turned.
Nothing.
Then the door opened.
Samuel stood there.
But he wasn’t the Samuel David knew.
He looked younger.
Maybe twenty years younger.
His clothes were different.
His face carried none of the exhaustion David had become accustomed to.
He looked afraid.
"David."
The younger David flinched.
Samuel crouched.
"I’m going to get you out."
The boy looked at him.
"You promised Mom."
Samuel’s expression cracked.
"I know."
"You promised."
"I know."
David watched the scene.
Something felt wrong.
Not because it was unfamiliar.
Because it was too familiar.
He had never remembered this conversation.
Yet he knew what Samuel was about to say.
"She’ll come with us."
The boy nodded.
Samuel looked toward the hallway.
"Eventually."
David’s eyes narrowed.
Eventually.
That word hadn’t belonged here.
He stepped closer.
"Stop."
The memory continued.
Samuel reached for the boy.
David grabbed his wrist.
His hand passed through him.
The memory didn’t react.
David’s eyes hardened.
"This isn’t a memory."
The scene froze.
Samuel remained kneeling.
The boy remained staring.
Rain stopped outside the window.
Everything became perfectly still.
David looked around.
"You showed me this."
Silence.
"Not because I needed to remember."
He turned toward the darkness behind him.
"Because you wanted me to notice something."
The voice finally returned.
Correct.
David looked at the younger Samuel.
"What?"
The voice didn’t answer.
David studied the scene again.
Samuel had said eventually.
Not someday.
Not when it was safe.
Eventually.
David looked at the boy.
Then at the hallway.
Then at the door.
His eyes narrowed.
"The memory is wrong."
The room trembled.
The voice remained silent.
David smiled faintly.
"Interesting."
The scene fractured.
Cracks spread across the walls.
The younger David looked up.
For the first time, his eyes met David’s.
"You’re not supposed to be here."
David froze.
The boy smiled.
Not like a frightened child.
Like someone who had been waiting.
"You took long enough."
David’s expression hardened.
"Who are you?"
The boy tilted his head.
"You."
"No."
"That’s what they told you."
David stepped closer.
"You’re not me."
The boy’s smile widened.
"Neither is he."
He pointed toward Samuel.
David looked over.
Samuel was gone.
The room had changed.
The bed disappeared.
The desk disappeared.
The walls stretched outward until the childhood bedroom became enormous.
Seven chairs appeared.
Six were empty.
One held a woman.
His mother.
She looked exactly as she had in the chamber.
David stared at her.
She smiled.
"You always were stubborn."
David’s jaw tightened.
"You’re not my mother."
The woman tilted her head.
"That hurt."
"You’re a memory."
"No."
"Then what are you?"
She looked toward the boy.
"Ask him."
David turned.
The boy was gone.
His stomach tightened.
"Where did he go?"
The woman stood.
"Where he always goes."
"Where?"
"Behind you."
David turned.
Nothing.
He looked back.
The woman was closer.
Too close.
David stepped away.
She didn’t follow.
"You’ve spent your whole life looking forward."
Her voice was gentle.
"Trying to understand what comes next."
David stared at her.
"But you never looked behind yourself."
"I’ve had enough people telling me what I am."
"That’s because you keep asking the wrong question."
David’s eyes narrowed.
"What should I ask?"
The woman smiled.
"Why were there seven of you?"
David went still.
Seven.
The seven bloodlines.
The seven circles.
The seven gates.
The seven chairs.
But that wasn’t what she meant.
David slowly looked around the room.
"Seven identities."
"Closer."
"Seven versions."
"Closer."
David’s eyes moved toward the empty chairs.
Then he understood.
Not seven versions of one person.
Seven people.
Seven consciousnesses.
Seven pieces.
His breathing slowed.
"You didn’t find me."
The woman said nothing.
"You found all seven of us."
Her silence was answer enough.
David looked toward the darkness.
"And you couldn’t separate us."
"No."
"So you built the system."
The woman’s expression changed.
"Not me."
"Samuel?"
"No."
"The seven bloodlines?"
"Not exactly."
David frowned.
"Then who?"
The woman looked toward the ceiling.
"Something older."
The room shook.
A low sound rolled through the darkness.
David recognized it.
The same vibration from beneath the facility.
The same presence.
The woman looked at him.
"It was never trying to get inside you."
David’s expression tightened.
"It was trying to get out."
The floor cracked.
David jumped backward.
The seven chairs vanished.
The room collapsed.
Darkness swallowed everything.
Then—
David opened his eyes.
He was standing in the facility again.
Samuel was there.
Elaine.
Version Zero.
The older David.
His mother.
The boy.
All of them.
But none of them were moving.
David looked around.
"What happened?"
No answer.
He stepped toward Samuel.
"Samuel?"
Nothing.
He waved a hand in front of his face.
No reaction.
David turned.
His mother was frozen.
Elaine was frozen.
Even the boy.
David looked at the older version.
"You can hear me, can’t you?"
The older version’s eyes moved.
Barely.
David stopped.
The older version whispered.
"Don’t."
David frowned.
"Don’t what?"
"Wake them."
"Why?"
The older version’s eyes shifted toward the boy.
"Because they aren’t asleep."
David looked at the child.
The boy’s eyes were open.
His mouth slowly moved.
"David."
David stepped closer.
"What?"
The boy whispered:
"They’re not them."
David’s expression changed.
The boy’s face began to crack.
Not physically.
Like an image losing resolution.
His features shifted.
For an instant, David saw himself.
Then Samuel.
Then his mother.
Then someone he didn’t recognize.
Then himself again.
David stepped back.
"What are you?"
The boy smiled.
"The question you should’ve asked first."
The system appeared.
[Multiple consciousnesses detected.]
[Separation failure.]
[Containment failure.]
[Origin Layer destabilizing.]
David stared at the notifications.
"Containment."
The older version nodded.
"That’s what we were."
"Containment for what?"
The older version looked toward the floor.
"For him."
The entire facility shook.
David felt pressure behind his eyes.
A voice whispered inside his skull.
Not the calm voice from before.
This one sounded frightened.
Run.
David’s eyes widened.
It was his own voice.
His own.
Not the presence.
Not the boy.
Not the older version.
Him.
David looked at his hands.
Black lines crawled across his palms.
The system flashed.
[Primary Identity recovering.]
[David — 71%.]
[Unknown Consciousness — 64%.]
[Witness — 82%.]
[Memory Core — 39%.]
David stared.
"Memory Core?"
The older version smiled bitterly.
"Now you’re seeing it."
"What am I seeing?"
"Why they couldn’t erase you."
David’s gaze hardened.
"Explain."
The older version stepped forward.
"You weren’t the container."
David’s heart slowed.
"You were the lock."
Silence.
David looked toward the seven doors.
Six remained open.
The seventh remained closed.
He understood.
The doors weren’t choices.
They were seals.
Six had opened because the lock had begun to fail.
And the seventh—
David looked at the closed door.
The seventh wasn’t keeping something out.
It was keeping something in.
"What happens when that door opens?"
The older version didn’t answer.
David looked at him.
"What happens?"
The older version swallowed.
"You wake up."
David’s expression remained calm.
"Who?"
The older version looked directly into his eyes.
"You."
The facility disappeared.
David stood alone again.
Seven doors.
Six open.
One closed.
The voice returned.
This time, it didn’t sound amused.
It sounded afraid.
Do not open it.
David stared at the seventh door.
"You just told me to come inside."
I was wrong.
"You’re capable of that?"
Silence.
David smiled faintly.
"Good."
He walked toward the seventh door.
The voice grew louder.
Stop.
David continued.
The darkness around him shook.
Don’t.
Another step.
David placed his hand against the door.
The black lines beneath his skin brightened.
The system appeared.
[WARNING.]
[Opening final seal may result in irreversible identity convergence.]
David stared at the message.
"That’s fine."
[Probability of primary identity survival: 12%.]
David’s eyes narrowed.
"Only twelve?"
The system remained silent.
He smiled.
"Then let’s improve the odds."
His fingers tightened around the handle.
Behind the door, something breathed.
Not loudly.
Not violently.
Just once.
A slow inhale.
David’s smile disappeared.
He knew that breath.
He had heard it inside his head.
For years.
He pulled the door open.
Darkness stared back.
Then a hand reached through.
It looked exactly like his.
David didn’t move.
The hand grabbed his wrist.
And suddenly—
Every memory returned.
Not one.
Not two.
All of them.
His first breath.
His first scream.
The seven bloodlines.
The laboratory.
The blood.
The seven chairs.
His mother.
Samuel.
The experiment.
The thing beyond the seventh gate.
And the truth they had spent sixteen years burying.
David’s eyes widened.
His mouth opened.
No sound came out.
The presence spoke.
Not inside his head.
Not from behind the door.
From his own mouth.
"We were never seven."
David stared at the darkness.
The voice continued.
"We were one."
The seventh door opened completely.
And somewhere far beyond the ruined facility—
something else opened its eyes.
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