2 Chapter 2

All she could see was black. Above her, underneath her and completely surrounding her her from all directions.

She saw a blue light in front of her, slightly pulsing. At first it was quite far away from her, but it gradually moved towards her.

When it was about a meter away, she heard a calm voice in her head.

"Hello. I am System 666. I'm going to help you through your life and make sure that you choose the right choices. IF you choose to reincarnate that is."

Okay. Well this was confusing. She could reincarnate? She thought that was only a myth! Then again, she shouldn't really have a consciousness because she's dead, so...

"Um, what happens if I don't reincarnate? Just for curiosity's sake?"

"Oh nothing much." Okay that is relieving. "Your soul will only be burnt away."

'WTF?! That's nothing much?! What the hell is wrong with this system?! I'd hate to see what it thinks of as a disaster!' She thought.

"Okay I'm definitely reincarnating!" She was NOT taking the other option. It sounded way too painful!

The system was very happy. This was her first host and she had successfully got her to reincarnate.

"YAY! That's good! Okay now you've got to accept me being your system!"

She was confused. How exactly did she do that? She didn't remember the system telling her how to.

Suddenly, there was a glowing translucent screen in front of her. She started. After a second though, Ella realized that it was probably the system's doing, judging purely from the fact that on the screen it said,

SYSTEM BONDING REQUEST

DECLINE

OR

ACCEPT

She thought ACCEPT and the darkness abruptly melted away. It became so bright that she had to screw her eyes shut tightly, yet she could still see the blinding light behind her eyes, albeit dimmed a bit.

When the light became bearable, she opened her eyes. She was in what looked like a train station. The screen was still in front of her, the only difference being that the words changed. Now it said

WHAT FORM WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR SYSTEM

TO USE?

She wondered. What form WOULD she like it to be? After a few minutes of deep thinking she asked, "Can I change its shape at will?"

YES

Okay then. Easy enough. She thought 'tiger'. Almost immediately after, the text changed again.

WHAT COLOURS?

'rainbow' She thought with little hesitation.

YOU ARE ALMOST READY TO START YOUR NEXT LIFE. IS THERE ANY SKILLS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BUY WITH YOUR STARTER PACK OF 5000 POINTS?

A menu popped up on the screen underneath the question.

■ MMA (500 pts)

■ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT (50 pts each)

• Piano

• Guitar

• Violin

• Voice

• Drums

■ COOKING (50 pts)

■ TRUTH (100 pts)

■ BUSINESS SAVVY (150 pts)

She chose all of them. She had 5000 anyway so why not? It was 1050 points which meant that she still had 3950 points left. If she didn't have enough she still would have taken at least voice. That was one thing that she was not willing to lose. It was the only thing that got her through the days in the dungeons alone was singing to her only true friends, the birds that pecked at the bars on the windows, as if trying to set her free from that wretched prison.

She tried singing a note.

"Ahh🎵"

Good. It was good to hear that she still had her voice from her old life.

When she was done, the system said in her head, [ Congrats host! Now you only have to name me and we can go to your first reincarnation]

Okay. Simple enough. She decided on the name 'Xixi'.

[Okay host! Preparing world!]

She was suddenly shoved onto the train that had just appeared at the station.

[Host, we're departing now! World no.1 here we come!]

Indeed.