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After the Pain Transfer System was legalized, I took my parents' cancer onto myself. When my mother returned from her trip around the world, she was sulking, her lips pursed in a pout. "You always play the long game, don't you?" she muttered. "You took the sickness for the praise and drove Claire away." Claire, my younger sister. She vanished the day the system launched. For a moment, I just stood there, my smile dying on my lips. My mother grew more animated as she spoke. "You rushed to bind yourself to us before Claire even had a chance, didn't you? Just to brand her as the bad daughter." "These years have been hard on you, I get it," she went on, "but let's be honest, you brought it on yourself. You're nothing like your sister. You had to make sure we felt every ounce of your sacrifice." A chill shot through me. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Just then, the System's voice echoed in my ear. "End the Pain Transfer?"