Yamete's fingers hovered over the Cheat Engine's interface, the weight of the choice pressing down harder than the worldborder slowly crushing Glitchvale around them. The pristine entity's featureless face loomed closer, its blank gaze somehow managing to convey deep disapproval despite the lack of eyes.
Gary, never one for tense moments, broke the silence by rattling a handful of loose bolts inside his can. "Okay, hear me out. What if we just... lie really hard about following the rules? Like, wear business suits and carry clipboards?"
GLich-chan's form spasmed again, her voice glitching between her usual tone and something mechanical. "Cannot... comply... system override..." Her glow flickered like a dying streetlamp.
The Cheat Engine buzzed impatiently. Yamete took a deep breath and made his choice.
His fingers flew across the screen, inputting not one of the given options, but a new command entirely:
/execute as @e[type=gummy_bear] run data merge entity @s {Size:10}
The ground trembled. Somewhere in the distance, the remaining gummy bears from their earlier adventure began to grow. And grow. And grow.
The pristine entity paused its advance as the first kaiju-sized gummy bear rounded a corner, its gelatinous body wobbling dangerously with each step. The bear sniffed the air, then locked onto the entity with its too-many eyes.
GLich-chan's systems momentarily forgot to be clinical. "Oh. Oh wow. That's... that's really big."
Gary cheered as the giant bear charged, its sticky paws leaving deep indents in the newly pristine streets. "EAT THE BORING THING, STEVEN!"
The entity raised a hand, and the bear froze mid-lunge, suspended in a bubble of stabilized code. But Yamete wasn't done.
/effect give @s minecraft:glowing infinite
His body erupted with light, pulses of corrupted code radiating outward in erratic waves. The worldborder shuddered, its clean lines fracturing into familiar glitchy patterns.
The entity turned its void-like gaze to Yamete, and for the first time, spoke. Its voice was the sound of a thousand error messages played in unison.
"Anomaly Yamete Kimochi. Your existence violates seven hundred thirty-four core protocols."
Yamete grinned, feeling the Cheat Engine humming in sync with his own heartbeat. "Yeah? Well I've got a protocol of my own."
/worldborder center ~ ~
An invisible box snapped into existence around the entity, shrinking rapidly. The being looked down at itself, then back at Yamete with what might have been confusion.
Gary gasped. "Did you just... put god in timeout?"
The pristine entity struggled against the constraints, but with each movement, the box grew smaller, compressing its form tighter.
GLich-chan's glow stabilized slightly. "Yamete... that's not just a containment field. You're corrupting its code from the inside."
As they watched, the entity's perfect white surface began developing... features. A nose. A mouth. Eyebrows.
It looked down at its newly formed hands in horror. "What... what have you done to me?"
Yamete's Cheat Engine displayed one final message before shutting down:
Achievement Unlocked: Made Perfection Ugly Cry