CHAPTER 72 – I WANT TO BE WITH YOU FOREVER

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The hollow had stumbled, falling and leaning on his other leg, he tried to get up, but it was too late for him, because we had both prepared our attacks. I prepared some wind blades that, together with Emma's fireball, would stoke the fire causing the hollow to burn to death... or at least that was the idea.

Killing a hollow by yourself is quite difficult and the original Jacob was very lucky to be able to kill him alone, finding pruning shears and sticking them in is in fact a luck that only a protagonist can have, anyone else would not have been so lucky and would have died devoured by the hollow.

"Now!" – I exclaimed.

"Take this, you filthy monster!" – Emma shouted.

Emma threw her fireball exactly where I wanted, so I threw my wind blades. Both attacks headed towards the hollow at such speed that the hollow did not have time to react and when he wanted to realize, both attacks crashed into him, the fire, fanned by my wind, caused blades of fire that decapitated him, causing his head to fall to the ground next to his upper part, which had also been cut with the fire knife; the hollow didn't even know that it had been cut into three pieces before he fell dead to the ground.

"We did it, we have killed him!" – Emma exclaimed.

I was panting, having run all this time and the effort to survive, it has tired me quite a bit, after all, I was not used to fight to survive, seriously: How do the protagonists of the isekai do it? Do you know how difficult it is to fight a monster for the first time? I was shaking and with a terrible fear, I almost fainted if it wasn't for my survival instinct being activated to the maximum and I was able to stay calm, besides, Emma was with me and I couldn't allow myself to panic.

"Yes, but I'm exhausted" – I said as I approached Emma.

"Are you okay, Jacob? Sit down a little, we can rest for a couple of minutes..." – Emma said worriedly.

It seemed like a genuine concern, but unfortunately we can't waste that much time.

"No, we can't, we have to meet with others, they may be in danger" – I said.

The mission is complete because I have protected everyone and killed the hollow, but there is no time to lose, the others may be in danger and I cannot leave my girls; my family is the most important thing to me.

"Listen, Jacob, I want to tell you one thing before we go" – Emma said.

I looked at her and could see the seriousness in her eyes, it seemed like what she wanted to say was quite important and she wouldn't take "no" for an answer.

"Tell me" - I said.

But before I could react, Emma hugged me and kissed my lips, at first I was surprised because I didn't expect Emma to react like this, I didn't expect her to hug me and, above all, I didn't expect her to take the initiative to kiss me.

I tried to enjoy the kiss, but I couldn't because when I wanted to realize it, Emma had separated her lips from me and looked at me with a smile that I rarely saw since I met her.

"Go out with me, Jacob, I love you" – Emma said.

At first, I opened my eyes, surprised by Emma's words, but I soon pulled myself together.

"Do you think it's the right time to confess your feelings?" – I asked curiously.

"It's the right time to do it" - Emma nodded.

"What about my grandfather?" – I asked again.

"I was thinking, I thought about this for days and I thought about Abe and what my life with him could have been like, I thought about him for a long time" - Emma said.

"Do you want to tell me that you are still in love with him?" – I asked.

I was somewhat disappointed: Why does she confess her feelings if she knows that I will not accept her if she loves another man? That was the problem with the original Jacob and I am not going to allow that to happen to me too. Bronwyn, Fiona, Claire and the twins were my girlfriends and there was no danger of them falling in love with other people, because they were never in love with Abe to begin with, but if we talk about Emma and Olive I have to be careful.

"No... rather I was, but after careful thought, I concluded that you were right" – Emma said.

"In what?" – I said.

"In what could I not continue to be anchored to the past. I may always live the same day over and over again, I may not age and even mature, but you are right, I cannot continue to think, dream and yearn for a relationship that has no future, Abe is dead and the Abe of 1940 is gone forever and will not come back, I can no longer deny that fact" - said Emma.

"Then tell me: What are your true feelings towards me?" – I asked again.

"I've said it before, I love you, Jacob, I love you more than I once loved Abe and I want to spend eternity with you" - Emma said.

System, what should I do? Her favorability is very high and there is no doubt that she is in love with me, but... What about my grandfather? Is Emma still in love with him?

[Host, I shouldn't tell you, but she's telling the truth, she's in love with you and not with your grandfather. For her, your grandfather is the past and you are the present, she has already forgotten her feelings of love for your grandfather, forever]

Are you sure? I don't want to make the same mistake as the original Jacob.

[Host, I am a system and as a system I have certain privileges and I assure you that Emma is no longer in love with your grandfather, she is only in love with you]

Was it the peculiarity "Unbreakable Love" that made that possible?

Feelings created by a peculiarity: Is that true love or just brainwashing?

[Host, actually, you should look again at the description of the peculiarity: "Unbreakable Love"]

Confused, I listened to the system and looked again at the description of the peculiarity.

[Unbreakable Love: A peculiarity that allows the love that your partner(s) have for you to never waver no matter how many years pass and your love won't diminish in the slightest, either. This peculiarity is perfect for preserving the love you feel for each other]

What is this, system? This is not the description I remember; It's completely different.

[Actually, the description I showed you the first time was completely fake]

*Note: This is a lie, the peculiarity has this effect and I didn't want to change it, but there's a lot of people who say me that this is brainwashing so I decided to do this instead of erase it, sorry if you didn't like it, but... I don't want people who tell me that this is brainwashing, because, for me, this is a love story without any kind of lies, a pure love story and I don't want people say me that.

But why?

[Your desire not to want to follow in the same footsteps as the original Jacob gave me the idea: "Unbreakable Love" is a peculiarity that serves to preserve the love you all feel, but since your wish was for Emma and Olive to stop loving your grandfather... I deceived you into believing that it was true]

But I don't understand, why did you do that? You could have told me.

[I think you underestimate your wish that Emma and Olive would only love you. Your desire was so strong that I had no choice but to deceive you to calm that desire; that insecurity you possessed]

So, are her current feelings real?

[100% reals. Now she loves only you and will always keep that love thanks to the peculiarity, but, unlike what you believed, this peculiarity never had the ability to erase feelings of love, only to preserve the feelings of love directed towards you, the host]

I was surprised beyond the words, the system was deceiving me all this time making me believe that the peculiarity erased any kind of feeling of love that Emma and Olive had within them towards my grandfather, but apparently, the peculiarity never had that function because it only served to preserve the love that they had for me and vice versa, it had no other function. A non-harmful peculiarity and that help to preserve our love forever, although I will be honest, I do not think we would have needed it.

"Jacob, you have been thoughtful for a while: don't you believe me? I don't know how I can prove it, but I assure you that Abe is a thing of the past and now my present and my future is you and no one else, I swear to you" – Emma said.

She didn't know how to prove the truth of her words, how to prove that she is truly no longer in love with Abe and only had Jacob in her heart.

"I believe you" – I said.

Then, I hugged her and we were both like this for a long time, trying to express our feelings of love for each other.

"Thank you for believing me even though I have no way of proving that I am telling the truth" – Emma said with a smile.

Actually, there is, the system assured me that your feelings are genuine and that you don't feel anything for my grandfather anymore, I wish I could tell you, I wish I could talk about the system, but I can't.

[That's right, you can't reveal anything about the system, that's all I ask of you]

I won't.

"I love you, Emma" – I said.

"I love you too, Jacob" - Emma said.

Then, we both shared another kiss, but this time it was something more intense and we took our time to taste each other's lips, but in the end, we both understood that we had already lost too much time and that we had to go back, however, when I looked at my phone I was surprised, no more than 3 minutes had passed since Emma confessed her feelings! How is this possible?

"Let's go back, we have to make sure that everyone is okay" – I said.

"Yes, let's go" – Emma nodded.

I don't know how this whole conversation lasted only three minutes, but there was no time to lose, we had to save our family, we couldn't allow anything bad to happen to them.

[You're welcome]

Despite saying these two simple words, Jacob did not listen to them because the system wanted him no to hear.