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I couldn t make sense of anything anymore.

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The First Rei Ohashi s POV

I left Claire s sickroom and went to the laboratory on the lowest floor, where TAIM s mainframe was located. I hurriedly engaged all the identification procedures and called out to the hologram that was TAIM s digital interface.

Start the Eternal Loop System!

The only way to save Claire now was to force through the activation of the Loop System. Considering how long it would take to convert all the souls to quanta, there wasn t much time left.

Voiceprint and iris authenticated. Welcome, Administrator Rei Ohashi. Warning: It is highly recommended that the approval of the US government and the UN secretary general be obtained first.

No time! Just hurry up and start!

We couldn t wait. By the time we received approval, Claire would be dead.

I had learned of the possibility of Claire s unknown disease purely by chance. We had been in the early stages of developing a plan to save humanity at the time, and I had temporarily received authority over TAIM s access privileges.

Claire had been none the wiser, but by then, I was already smitten with her. It was practically love at first sight, as she was my type to a tee. My heart had nearly leapt out of my chest every time I saw her unguarded self in the laboratory.

I had peeked at her health data out of pure curiosity, but a single certain value I found there had left me with a deep sense of foreboding. I d ordered TAIM to periodically report it to me and had later discovered that my bad feeling was warranted.

The value rose by the day. It represented the likelihood of an infection, but it wasn t clear from what. I tried asking TAIM, but it seemed she didn t know anything either. At any rate, I understood that the chance that Claire suffered from an unknown disease was going up day by day.

Everything would ve been fine if the disease weren t life threatening. Medicine was advanced in the late-21st century; the majority of what were once untreatable diseases could by then be managed. But if it were a known disease, TAIM would have been able to identify it.

So I thought about it: What could I do to ensure I didn t lose the one I loved, to make my love for her eternal? From there came the idea of the Eternal Loop System.

Please confirm: Once the system is activated, the process cannot be stopped. Do you still wish to continue?

Yes! I yelled.

Now entering the activation sequence. Please insert the administrator s activation key.

I took off the activation key hanging around my neck and inserted it into TAIM