ARC 1.5: Welcome to the System!

[ Contact Successful! ]

[ Please wait while downloading . . . . . ]

[ Downloading . . . 1% . . . . . 2% . . . . 3% . . . ]

Quirra was waiting in the darkness with a puzzled look on her face. In front of her is a transparent screen with an hourglass downloading icon, each time the percentage increases the hourglass would flip around.

"How long is this going to take!?" she asked impatiently.

[ Downloading 5% . . . . . 6% . . . . . 7% . . . . ]

Each time the percentage increase, Quirra felt like it took forever! She could only wait patiently in the darkness and watch as the downloading progress bar slowly increase, since she haven't got anything else to do to pass the time.

[ Downloading Complete! ]

"Finally!!!" Quirra shouted as she sighed with relief. She felt as if it took a 100 years for whatever to download.

[ Do you wish to accept new system download? ]

[ Yes / No ]

"After that long time you took downloading? Fark YES!"

[ Sytem Download Accepted! ]

[ Please state your Name ]

"Quirra Masaki"

[ Name: Quirra Masaki. Unavailable. Please try again ]

[ Please state your name ]

"Umm.... Quirra?" she half stated half asked as she scratched her head. -How could my name be unavailable?-

[ Name: Quirra. Available ]

[ Please wait . . . . ]

Another downloading screen came up. Quirra threw her hands in the air, exhasperated. The downloading screen was as slow as the first one. Quirra decided to take a nap while she wait for the system to finish updating..

What felt like another 100 years has passed, Quirra woke up to a beeping sound.

[ Would you like to launch system? ]

[ Yes / No ]

"Ugh, my gosh! YES! PLEASE!"

[ System Launching ]

[ Please wait . . . . . Please wait . . . . ]

[ Please wait . . . . ]

Seeing the hourglass sign again, Quirra rolled her eyes and groaned helplessly. After a while she realized she finally have the chance to get the sleep she always wanted, so with a smile, she laid back down and rolled to her side then fell asleep.

~ ∆ ~ ∆ ~ ∆ ~ ∆ ~

[ Greetings, Quirra! ]

Quirra's eyes quickly opened up, and saw the transparent screen with those words in the middle, hovering above her.

She didn't know how long she slept this time but it was long enough for her to momentarily forget about the system.

"Hello??" she said as she rubbed the sleep off of her eyes.

[ Hello. Would you like to transfer to a more comfortable place? ]

"Yes please."

[ Initiate transfer ]

"Do I have to wait again for this?"

[ Transferring . Please wait . . . . . Please wait . . . . ]

"I knew it!!" Quirra sighed as she rolled back down to sleep again. It was going to take forever, however, she didn't mind. She had forever to wait anyway.

~ ∆ ~ ∆ ~ ∆ ~ ∆ ~

[ Transfer Complete! ]

As Quirra woke up, she realized she was standing in the middle of a room. She looked around her surroundings and was surprised to find out that the bedroom she was in looks as though it was located in a skyscraper. She was completely surrounded by glass walls. She could clearly see the view outside!

To her left was a white desk and a chair, while to her right was a queen-sized canopy bed and behind it are large windows that lined the wall. Outside was a futuristic city skyline, with 1 sun and 2 moons seen above a peach sky.

Quirra walked towards the windows and looked up, down and around. There were no signs of life anywhere.

"Maybe what I'm seeing is really just a screen and not this lanscape?" she muttered to herself as she took a step back.

[ Please Read Terms and Conditions Policy, and say "Accept". ]

[ Should you Decline your soul will disintegrate into a million pieces and you will no longer have any chances at Reincarnation ]

"WHAT!? How does that even make sense!? I haven't done anything horrible in my past life to deserve this kind of punishment!!"

[ Scanning Host . . . Please wait . . . . . ]

A red horrizontal lazer line appeared out of the screen and scanned Quirra from her head down to her soles.

[ Scanning Complete ]

[ The results founded by this system indicates that your past life was your last life cycle ]

[ You have no more chances to Reincarnate ]

[ Please read Terms and Conditions Policy ]

[ Accept / Deny ]

"Accept! Accept! Accept!" She quickly said without reading the whole Terms and Conditions Policy.

-Who has actually sat down and read those!?-

Was it because she no longer have any more chances for Reincarnation that she came to this dark place and stayed for a long time? Was her past life really her last chance to try and reach Nirvana?

These were the thoughts running thru her head as she waited for the system's response.

[ Terms and Conditions Policy Accepted! ]

[ Would you like to read Mission Statement? ] [ Yes / No ]

"Yes"

[ Mission Statement: "To Grant One Wish, Change One Life in One World, One at a Time." ]

"ummm.....okay???" she was unsure what that meant.

[ Would you like to read Introduction? ]

[ Yes / No ]

"Yes"

[ Preparing Introduction . . . Please wait . . . . Please wait . . . . ]

"Argh! Really!??" Quirra couldn't help getting agitated by the sytems slow process. So she decided to take a nap as she prepared herself for the long and slow days to come.