The Third Force

"You're really too much, killing a child as young as she was!"

In Benjamin's brain, the System was yelling in a rather awkward, twisted tone of voice.

"It's not that I wanted to kill her. Just that, in the state she'd been in before, what's the difference between that and being dead?" Benjamin put the report in his hand down, sighing as he said, "I've already asked the two siblings to do a specific inspection. The imprint planted by the Church was very mysterious. It seems that it had existed since she'd been a year or two years old, and it would deepen more and more as she grew up. It'd have been impossible to get rid of it. So, the real her had died in the hands of the Church from the very beginning. I was merely giving that weak and declining body a quick ending."

Hearing that, the System was quiet for a moment, before its voice returned to its original, lazy tone. "Oh, whatever then. I was just looking for an opportunity to make fun of you."