Loser System and Berserker Me

【12345, you have failed your internship. You will have to repeat it again.】

The words of its mentors echoed in its ears. System 12345 felt like breaking down.

【Why did this happen?】

【I am a Romance Conquest System! Why is my host a berserker who wants to chop everything down? He actually killed all of the capture targets before escaping!】

【Other than my screen going black, the failed installation of the language package, the occasional program hangs, the coding errors, and the high latency… I think I have done decently on everything else.】

System 12345 felt exhausted. It headed to a group filled with many other Systems, hoping to find consolation.

As soon as it slipped in, it saw the other Systems chatting excitedly among themselves.

【Fellow Systems, I have piping hot tea!】

【A new idiot had popped up in our Romance Faculty! Not only did it score a negative in its internship, but it even caused huge damage to the internship ground! The consciousness of the world even complained all the way to the faculty, and our teachers barely placated it.】

【Negative? I don’t get it. How does anyone do that?】

【What the hell! I mean, you won’t get a negative even if you submit a blank paper!】

【Whose student is that?】

Woah, there’s such interesting news? System 12345 quickly joined the conversation.

【Ehhh! Something that interesting actually happened? Does anyone have more information?】

【…】

The chatroom seemed to stall to a halt the moment System 12345 joined the conversation.

【You are… 12345?】 One of the Systems asked.

【I am.】

System 12345 was confused by that question.

【Are you sure you are 12345 and not l2345?】

【Are you sure you are 12345 and not 1234S?】

【Are you sure you are 12345 and not 123A5】

Such spams appeared in the chatroom.

【I am 12345! Is someone else impersonating me?】

System 12345 was slowly beginning to lose its temper.

【That System before, I know who you’re talking about now.】

【Indeed, it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s 12345.】

【Not surprising +1】

【Not surprising +2】

Some Systems started to probe deeper.

【12345, why haven’t you quit school yet?】

System 12345 was perplexed.

【Why would I quit school?】

【…I mean, just that CPU—results of yours, why in the world is the school still keeping you?】

System 12345 stomped its leg in anger.

【You’re doubting my result? I cleared all my modules!】

【Ah?】

【What’s with that response? Is it that surprising?】

Surprisingly, some other Systems started to vouch for that.

【Fellow Systems, I just checked 12345’s results. It scored at least 60 for all its modules.】

【Hmph! You see that? How dare you look down on me!】

System 12345 smirked in glee upon seeing someone vouch for it.

【Such a mentor really exists? He really is… I’m about to laugh myself to death.】

【Laughing myself to death +1】

【Laughing myself to death +2】

【Damn it. If my mentor was like that too, I wouldn’t have ended up like that!!!】

【Totally agreed.】

【Same here too.】

System 12345 was displeased to hear that.

【Hey, what do you mean by that?】

A System immediately answered its question.

【You don’t get what we mean? If you score 90 for all your modules, that’s the result of your hard work. But if you score 60 for all your modules, that’s probably be the result of your mentor’s hard work.】

System 12345 was enraged to hear that.

【Oi, what do you mean by that? Are you saying that my results have nothing to do with my own capabilities, and that I’m relying on my mentor to pull up my scores?】

【What else?】

【What else? +1】

【What else? +2】

【You pesky little bugs!】

System 12345 was infuriated, but it decided to be magnanimous and not hold it against these little Systems.

【Systems, I encountered a small problem in my internship. How do you all guide your hosts?】

【Surely not, surely not! There’s a System in this world that doesn’t know how to guide its host? —Love From the Flying Deer】

【Holy shit, it’s a celebrity!】

【A celebrity!】

【I love you, Flying Deer!】

【Go practice more if you suck. Stop chatting and issue more missions. Reflect more on yourself. Make up for your own shortcomings with your hard work. —Love From the End】

【It’s another celebrity!】

【Woo!】

【Boss, do you need a lackey?】

【Ey, is there a need to make things so tough? All you have to do is to dress yourself up well everyday and leave it all to your host! —Love From the Catperson】

【You’re not going to say anything about what happened at Argyle?】

【Pui! You wastrel! Be more ambitious!】

【Be more ambitious +1】

【Be more ambitious +2】

It didn’t take long for the conversation to detract.

System 12345 realized, to his dismay, that requesting help in the group was the same as playing a zither to a cow—it was futile.

Just then…

Ding ding ding!

A private message came in, so System 12345 tapped in to take a look.

【System 1915? It’s Senior Legend!】

System 12345 was shocked.

【Senior is it really you?】

【Yes, it’s me.】 System 1915 replied.

【Wuuu!!! Senior, it really is you!】

System 12345 screeched in excitement.

【I heard from our mentor that you’re working on a project, and you often help the other juniors with their internship. So far, the success rate is 100%?】

【Not at all. Those are just others flattering me.】 System 12345 replied demurely.

【Ey, speaking of which…】

System 12345 was perplexed about something.

【Senior, were you in the group earlier too? Why didn’t you say a word?】

【I still want my dignity.】

【?】

【Mm. Let’s not harp on meaningless things. Our mentor has sent me here to aid you. Send me your internship report.】

【All right!】

System 12345 was overjoyed. I should be able to clear my internship with Senior Legend’s help!

Moments after the internship report was sent over…

【???】

【What’s wrong, senior?】 System 12345 nervously asked upon seeing the question marks.

【Ahhh….】

A sigh could be heard even across the screen.

【It’s nothing, I’m just amazed. Speaking of which, which step are you stuck at?】 System 1915 asked while browsing the internship report.

【Are you stuck on the difficulty or…】

【Hmm…】

System 12345 earnestly thought about the matter before replying.

【I’m stuck on the installation.】

【…】

System 1915 fell silent, but moments later…

【Huh? This pile of… code, you wrote it?】

【That’s right. Is something wrong?】 System 12345 nodded.

System 1915 was rendered speechless.

【You obviously didn’t write it! You stole it from our mentor’s database!!!】

System 1915 felt light-headed.

A System was its host’s cheat; the more capable a System was, the stronger the host’s cheat. However, ever since their faculty started bringing in more juniors, it felt like Systems had been going on a downward spiral.

There were a number of Systems who couldn’t offer real-time help to their hosts and had to rely on another cheat code to offer help.

To draw an analogy, if the past chefs were veteran chefs, most of the Systems nowadays only knew how to garnish the dishes.

Their mentor must have been worried sick about System 12345.

By right, the Systems had to design and develop their own cheat code for their internship, and the mentors could only provide guidance from the side, but their mentor actually opened up its database for System 12345 to refer to.

In the database were many fully-developed cheat codes, so System 12345 could easily copy one on the go. While most young Systems were making wheelchairs, their mentor gave System 12345 a couple of Ferrari parts to zoom ahead.

Strictly speaking, this was considered cheating!

Yet, System 12345 was able to screw it up despite cheating. It took those Ferrari parts and assembled them together, and the final result was a tank. What made it even more ridiculous was that this tank’s gas pedal, brakes, and steering wheel were all nowhere to be seen!

God knows who even has the authority to run the cheat code?!

【Aren’t you a Romance Conquest System? What are you developing with your cheat code?】

System 1915 couldn’t comprehend what was going on..

【There shouldn’t be a mistake with my cheat code, no?】

System 12345 was confused.

【Our mentor said that it would be best to give my host a cheat he’s familiar with, so that it’s easier for him to get the hang of it. So, I designed a cheat code based on the game that my host is the most familiar with.】

【Isn’t Beacons of the Otherworld dubbed to be a fully immersive adventure game that’s the romance of all men, promising all sorts of battle sequences, strategies, survival… It’s related to romance.】

【…】

System 1915 fell silent.

It turns out that you can’t even read! Forget it, forget it. I need to calm down.

【For now, I’ll help you fix your cheat code. The codes in our mentor’s database are very high level, and you have made a mess of the codes, so I can’t promise that I’ll be able to fix it well. I can only try my best. 】

System 1915 decided to solve the matter a step at a time.

System 12345 felt wronged.

【I almost succeeded. I only needed half a year more. But my host suddenly ran away! I lost my happy ending just like that!】

【Huh?!】

System 1915 was horrified.

【Hold on, your host escaped?! What is happening on your side?!】

System 1915 took a closer look at System 12345’s internship report, and it couldn’t remain calm anymore.

【There was a language barrier, and you couldn’t fix the issue? Why can’t you choose a world that speaks the same language as our host?】

【You made a Roman fanatic transmigrate into a Roman-like world, and his capture targets are in the enemy camp… No wonder he went around cutting people down!】

【You used red lights to indicate mission targets? Is that how you guide someone?! More like you’re guiding your host to kill off his capture targets!】

Fuck! This isn’t even about the mistakes it made in its internship. More like its entire existence is a mistake!

In the end, System 1915 concluded…

【I have spent my life being kind and accruing good karma. I have worked tirelessly to help my mentor complete his project and aid my juniors with their internships, but why must such a crisis befall me? What have I done so wrong?!】