[Previous Mission Timeline – 12,437 Cycles Ago]
There was no warning when she appeared.
No flare of divine energy.
No cosmic sign.
Just a girl — standing at the edge of the battlefield, white hair stained with soot and golden eyes glowing like twin suns in the ash-stained sky.
Lucifer staggered to his feet, sword cracked, wing torn and bleeding at the edge. His troops had been decimated, the rebellion crushed before it began.
He turned, dazed.
And there she stood.
“I think,” she said calmly, “you owe me your life.”
Day 1 – The First Encounter
“You just… appeared,” Lucifer muttered, leaning on a blackened stone pillar, blood dripping from his side.
Jue knelt beside him, pressing her palm to the wound. “I was sent. Simple as that.”
“By who?”
She didn’t look at him. “By someone who doesn’t like seeing gods fall.”
Lucifer laughed bitterly. “Then they’re about ten thousand years too late.”
Her touch was cold. Soothing. Divine. The wound began to close.
“I can’t stay long,” she said.
“I didn’t ask you to.”
She smiled faintly. “You will.”
Day 3 – The Spiral Begins
Lucifer watched her train in the courtyard with his generals. She moved like fire wrapped in silk — precise, fluid, impossibly fast. Her blade caught the light of the underworld sun and split it like crystal.
He didn’t know her name until then.
“Jue,” she said, offering him her hand after a mock duel. “It means end.”
“Is that a threat?”
“A promise.”
He smirked. “I don’t scare easy.”
She leaned in close. “Neither do I.”
That was the beginning.
Day 14 – The Mission Deepens
[Mission Log: Subject L-01. Emotional synchronization at 49%. Target unaware of fabricated origin. Suggest heightened intimacy and timed vulnerability.]
They sat together in the gardens Lucifer had yet to name. The ones she would one day know as the Garden of the Damned.
“I never told you,” he said quietly, “why I started the rebellion.”
“Why?”
He picked at the dirt beside a new blossom. “Because I wanted something that was mine. Not given. Not cursed. Mine.”
Jue stared at him, the words piercing her harder than they should have.
“You already have something,” she whispered.
He looked up. “What?”
Me, she thought.
But she said, “Your people. Your belief.”
Lucifer looked at her for a long time.
Then: “I’m starting to think I was meant to lose. Just to find you.”
She smiled.
And hated herself for it.
Day 23 – The Fall Begins
They kissed beneath the black stars, his hand tangled in her hair, her breath catching against his mouth like it belonged there.
[Mission Notice: Betrayal Event Scheduled – 4 Days Remaining. System will initiate cognitive wipe post-objective completion. Target’s memory will fragment.]
He pulled her closer. “Stay with me.”
She froze. “What?”
Lucifer’s voice was soft — the voice of a king who had no kingdom left but still dared to hope.
“Stay,” he repeated. “Don’t vanish like everything else I’ve ever cared about.”
[Override Warning: Emotional conflict detected. Betrayal window closing.]
Jue touched his cheek. “Lucifer…”
He pressed his forehead to hers. “I don’t care where you’re from. Or who sent you. I know it. I feel it. I love you.”
[System Lock-In: Emotional sync complete. Initiate betrayal trigger in T-minus 48 hours.]
She didn’t respond.
She couldn’t.
Instead, she held him tighter. The lie had become too real.
Day 25 – The End of That World
The betrayal was meant to be clean.
She would vanish. He would break. His soul would fracture just enough to collapse the rebellion and reset the realm’s emotional weight.
But Jue didn’t vanish.
She stayed too long.
Long enough for Lucifer to wake with panic in his chest and fire in his eyes. He chased her through the underworld gates, demanding answers, begging, screaming.
“Why?”
“Who are you really?”
“Tell me the truth, Jue!”
She stood beneath the collapsing sky, tears in her golden eyes.
“I’m not real,” she whispered.
But he heard: I loved you anyway.
And as the mission concluded, the world rewrote itself.
Lucifer forgot.
Time reset.
And Jue—
—was cursed to remember everything.
Return to Present Timeline
Jue jolted awake in her chambers, breath sharp and fast. Zero’s interface glowed beside her, unreadable and cold.
[Memory Pulse Detected. Emotional Remnants Active.]
[Mission Note: Do not repeat mistake. Betrayal required. Delay will collapse timeline.]
She turned her head, staring at the wall.
Lucifer was falling in love with her again.
And she was terrified that this time… she was, too.
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