Curse The Mainframe! 258 System Meets Main Character

Sekai was seething in annoyance.

He actually expected his knowledge to f.u.c.k him over instead of practical experience, but he was proven wrong.

While he had the knowledge, putting it into practice was a whole different thing altogether.

His knowledge was… pa.s.sable, whereas his writing… well.

It had only been a few days since he first started, but Sekai was already starting to lose his previous confidence.

The supplies that he'd stocked up on were not going to last long at this rate.

While he thought that it would be hard, he hadn't expected it to be *this* hard.

Of course, he knew that haste makes waste, but the f.u.c.king brand on him that affected parts of his brain and personality meant that he had little to no filter, and he was a lot brasher than he'd be otherwise.

Sekai roughly ruffled his hair.

Time was running out.

Sekai was frustrated. Then, he was frustrated at his frustration.

Before the f.u.c.king brand, he knew he'd be able to patiently work on it no matter how long it took, but now it felt like ants were running around on his brain whenever he tried to concentrate for more than two hours.

He punched the wall of the cave in anger, before flopping back down on the cold stone floor and squinting his eyes at the paper.

He dipped the brush in ink, pulling it out.

He adjusted the torchlight that hung above him before carefully – carefully – placing the brush down on the page.

Sekai tried again, doing his best to temper down his impatience that nothing he was doing was working.

How was he going to get it to work when there were only a few months left before the company came to f.u.c.k him over once again?

This was the furthest he'd ever gotten, and if he let go of this chance now, he wouldn't ever be free of the f.u.c.king company!

Then, of course, because he was distracted for a split second, his brush jerked as the line deviated the slightest bit right when he was completing it.

"Oh, fuc-" Sekai hastily threw the paper as far as he could down the cave.

"BOOM!"

Sekai threw himself away from the place hastily, diving into the sandpit that he'd made, which was something that had saved his life countless times already.

Yes, yes. He knew what you were thinking, G.o.ddammit.

A sandpit in a cave?

The first time the b.l.o.o.d.y seal had exploded, Sekai basically used the hole that was produced in the first explosion to get the h.e.l.l out of dodge for the rest of the resulting explosions.

But Sekai really felt as if he was going to lose his mind.

He already never had much of anything to do with any bookwork in his previous life, but now that he had to actually use his brain properly and puzzle out the seal, it felt like his brain was leaking through his ears.

Sekai would quite literally kill for a pen to appear now so he didn't have to deal with these bulls.h.i.+t calligraphy brushes.

The man sighed roughly.

Nothing to it, then. He'd just have to power through somehow.

He was a transmigrator, he comforted himself.

He might not have any cheats, but he could do things in this life that he never expected he'd be able to do in the previous life.

It went surprisingly well when he thought about it like that.

The lines came out smoother – something he chalked up to his previous experience – and he didn't drop large blotches of ink everywhere like he'd been p.r.o.ne to do when he thought too hard.

Just as he was about to finally complete a proper seal for once, the boulder that he'd rolled in front of the cave entrance to block out the monsters and creatures from the surrounding areas was roughly shoved aside, and Sekai's brush jerked, ruining the entire thing.

Sekai chucked the calligraphy brush across the cave with anger, letting out a scream of anger.

He'd been so close too! He could just feel it!

It shattered on the wall, like the last vestiges of his sanity, and the man felt his anger explode.

Whoever the f.u.c.k it was that had just ruined his progress, he'd kill them!

Sekai grabbed his sword and stalked to the entrance of the cave, murder in his eyes.

There, at the entrance, there appeared to stand a man that was dressed in blues and whites. The symbol on the clothes signified that he was from the Heavenly Ascension Sect.

He looked very, very familiar.

Sekai's eyes burned when he saw that face.

He launched himself forward with a roar – that face looked infuriatingly like the blasted System who'd chucked him onto this planet with no chance of finding love – the face that he'd dreamed about cutting into.

Alec, who had been unenthusiastically heading to the direction of the explosions, felt confused when the Main Character threw himself at Alec without any words exchanged between them whatsoever.

Usually, if something like this happened, wouldn't the person who'd had their place roughly intruded into go, 'Who are you?' or 'What do you think you're doing?'.

Was this the legendary 'attack first, think later'?

Instead of going about things like a rational person, the Main Character just threw himself at Alec with murder in his eyes, and a sword swinging at him.

Alec clicked his tongue, stepping back and smoothly sliding the boulder back right before the Main Character's blade was about to connect with him.

The sword roughly clanged into the stone, cutting deep into it, and Sekai swore so loudly Alec could hear him from outside.

"f.u.c.kkkkkk! Come out here you s.h.i.+tty System!"

Honestly, Sekai didn't really think it was the System. As if a System would come all the way down here to this s.h.i.+tty planet themselves.

It was just that seeing that face made Sekai feel like exploding, so explode he would.

Alec's eyebrows shot up, as did Ye Sha.

How did the other know he was a System?

Alec thought back about the Main Character who just straight up charged at him with no words exchanged.

The man had tanned skin and bright blonde hair that contrasted greatly with his appearance, and steely grey eyes.

By all accounts, he was quite attractive, but Alec didn't think he'd ever seen him before.

Then, Alec suddenly narrowing his eyes.

Wait a minute.

He'd originally been sent here by that d.a.m.n Mainframe because of the bad reviews as 'punishment' as well as 'atonement', so he should have expected that the person who'd been the one to trigger it would have appeared in the same planet as well.

Alec clicked his tongue even when the smile on his face grew brighter, and Sekai screamed at him when he heard the tongue click. "Fight me like a maaaan!"

"What a brute. Is that you, Xi Kai?"

Silence.

"f.u.c.k!!! It's really you, you d.a.m.n System! Fight me! My name is Sekai! Remember it!"

Alec's smile widened, and he felt the vestiges of his temper billow, being fanned from the little embers into a roaring flame.

It had originally been rather satisfied with him killing his way throughout the forest, but it was once again ignited.

"Those are my words."

Alec roughly kicked the boulder aside with pure strength alone, flying back as Xi Kai – or rather, Sekai, flew out at the same speed.

Alec ducked under the man's wide swing, just as Sekai hastily dodged the dagger that the System wielded.

The two glared at each other, animosity and hostility brewing between them.

"f.u.c.king System," Sekai spat, readying his sword. "It's all your fault I'm on this planet! And that I can't find a lover!"

Alec just tilted his head, appearing unaffected as Sekai swore at him. It just p.i.s.sed the transmigrator off even more.

"On the contrary, I said that you'd be 'unmatched in the entire world' and that women would find you repulsive, but do you really think the Mainframe would allow that to happen?" Alec said slowly, confusing the transmigrator.