Netralla

> The System doesn’t offer rewards. It records your sins.

When Kai wakes up in a corpse pit, there’s only one message blinking in his vision:

[Welcome to the Sin Log System.]
[Mission 1: Confess what you did to deserve this.]

No power-ups. No levels. No mercy.
Every action he takes—every lie, betrayal, or violent act—is carved into his soul. The only way forward is through punishment.

And the more he tries to survive, the more the System remembers… things Kai swore he never did.

But the worst part?

The missions don’t come from the System.
They come from the people he hurt—whether he remembers them or not.


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In a world where memory is currency and guilt is power, Kai must uncover who he really was… before the System erases who he’s becoming.

Will he earn redemption—
or become the villain in someone else’s story forever?

System: Sins of the Dead

I woke to the smell of ash and wet concrete.

The corrupted light was gone. Static fields had faded.

Even the sky—gray and cracked—seemed lighter.

I walked past a child sitting alone in the street, whispering numbers to herself.

"Repeat loop 24," she murmured. "Kai said no. Maria screamed. The Architect blinked."

The system was bleeding into memory now. And the Broadcast I disrupted had consequences.

> [System Update: Choir Loop Severed – 7 Zones]

You are now flagged as "Voice Contaminated"

Passive: Survivors near you may regain fragmented memories

The Ferryman met me at the signal tower.

"They're waking up," he said. "Some are grateful. Some... aren't."

"Because they remember who they were," I said. "Before the system chose them."

"And because they remember what they did to survive after."

He handed me a cloth-wrapped package.

Inside: a rusted, old-world PDA. Black screen. One cracked input port.

"This doesn't belong to the current system," he said. "It predates even the Choir's version."

> "A map fragment. Pointing to something called the Origin Server."

> [New Questline Unlocked: THE ROOT CODE]

Tier Access: Requires Tier 3 Gateway Completion

Leads to: The Origin Server – alleged birthplace of the system

Goal: Locate the server to learn why the system was created… and who the first user truly was

> "If you found this, it means I failed. But maybe you won't.

Later that night, I was brought to a warehouse outside the safe zone.

It looked abandoned. But inside—rows of chairs.

A projector. A ritual circle made of crushed memory chips.

Elders, scavengers, former priests, broken choir exiles—all watching me.

One woman stepped forward. Her skin was translucent. Her voice cracked with feedback.

"I remember the first signal," she whispered. "It didn't feel like punishment. It felt like home."

Another: a man missing both eyes but reciting system lines like scripture.

"I was User 17," he said. "I completed 42 missions. Then the code ate my name."

"You already are," the blind man said. "Because you're the only one who ever said no to the Divine Broadcast. And lived."

That night, I sat with the Ferryman by the fire.

"Someone who didn't get the luxury of missions. He was the test run. Before the system had rules. Before it filtered sin. He got everything. All at once."

"He went insane. Then disappeared. Some say he became the Architect. Others say he's still trapped inside a node too corrupted to delete."

"And if I find the Origin Server?" I asked.

"Then you better be ready to learn the truth…"

> [System Alert: You have reached Divergence Level 2]

Your alignment with the Architect is now deepening

Side Effect: You no longer trigger basic system commands like a normal user

Result: Your body is becoming an interface

Status: USER-HOST HYBRID (Stage One)

Chapter 40 – The Ones Who Remember