The Candied Sabotage of Orazhat
By @john1208
I cried the perfect amount at my mentor's funeral, dabbing my eyes with a cheerful, oblivious smile as my coworker Dalya sneered. She thinks I am just a scatterbrained baker who stumbled into the candidacy for Head Confectioner. She is right about the cheerful part. But when I caught her plotting to ruin my banquets, I decided to orchestrate a quiet, ruthless revenge. I play the airhead, subtly manipulating her into swapping my sweet-root with bitter-ash right before the Governor's tasting. I then proudly present it as a daring palate-cleanser, securing my own success while she seethes. What I don't know is that Dalya isn't just a petty rival - she is harboring a cosmic System trying to steal my destiny through public humiliation. I merely think I am outsmarting a mundane saboteur. But as I gleefully steer her plots into walls, her desperate failures force her to claim the System's ultimate 'reward' to destroy me. Will my entirely mundane revenge accidentally spring a fatal cosmic trap on a parasite I don't even know exists?
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