Her eyes fluttered slowly with each heavy movement. Her vision spun, dizziness clouding to her mind. Alexia tried to focus clawing her hands, and slowly, the view became clear with her sharp eyes, she starts to scan the place finding herself in a endless black void around her.
At the corner, an orange cat back faced sat upright resting his arm to rusted white panel stand in a pose. Its tail swished back left and right like broom. One paw tapped at a glowing junk panel, searching through hidden skills, numbers and stats.
"Design level max. "
"Creative level max. ''
''Craftmanship max.'' ''Wooo Then, we ain't gonna have problem"'
''Charm level...''
[86]as his finger glide pass it.
'' Charm level 86, ''Are you serious? ''. He clutched a dummy fish between his paws with dissatisfaction and nutpick as his whole expression twist. 86.He complained.'' It's pathetic.'' His hand slammed the panel and the old stand rattled by its weight. ''Ohh! Ohh! Easy boy Eeeesy. Sorry About that".
Alexia edged closer to him for better view as he covers the panel if it tries to break.
''It's just.. Most user needs 100 to bypass the system. And ours are 1000. So, how the heck is she even here?''
''This is disrespect to us.''
Alexia took a moment and suddenly her silence goes to deadly silence. ''Disrespect" she repeats with cold deadly tone. He didn't notice her at all. Not yet.
[System Rank : Trash]
''Nonononno, Don't! look at the present. Look at the past. We had more standard _'' aka by Muffin, the richest cat in the whole system..
''Ahh!'' The orange cat continued yapping, his voice throwing up full with mockery like apparent would. "Did the system really jump to Rank 20 by her or just you had a problem? He asked to the old rusted stand panel.
[ :{ ]
He didn't notice her approaching from behind ready to throw him at the side garbage. As she was just right back him, her gaze slides elsewhere to the glowing blue control panel with her profile on a stand.
"What are you doing?" she asked, clipped with low and icy voice instantly distracted. The cat sprang back throwing off his precious dummy fish toy. He bounded, claws flailing, and chase to protect it—but Alexia didn't flinch and quickly shift to panel. She instantly tapped next after taking a quick look at her profile.
[Companion Info : Muffin Truck-The Richest Cat]
[Status: Long Resident]
[Cuteness level : 200]
[Agility level : 30]
[Intelligence level : 140]
[Mischief level : 200]
[Loyalty level : 70]
[Alertness level :45]
[System Notification]
[Contract : Make Muffin the Owner of a house.]
[Yes No]
''Haah!'' Muffin gluped with a sense of getting caught what he just spitted on. "Ohh Hey! There fella" clearing his throat "I know you are angry with me, but let's slid it off. As we are going to start a new life".
No response. ''So, it's a yes. Lets now, starts with my intro I'm Muffin. The biggest divine companion and the Richest cat in the whole system.' 'As he pumps his chest knitting his thought.
"'Well, In the past" Instantly gets back to his flabby stomach back cutting back to present. Cough Cough. "But you are very lucky. Cause I am your companion without any hardship".
[No] clicked.
[Launching New System]
The sound came from junk panel. ''No, Wait !'' As his eyes quickly falls onto the panel.
[Cleaning junk]
''My contract. What did you do you just do?'' As Muffin completely goes in rage and bluttered with heavy voice. ''Kept you at your place.'' Alexia flatly sorted out.
[Loading]
Old hag!
Alexia face blacked out, as soon she heard. Muffin spotted her evil form quickly transforming his rage to cold sweat. "Ahh! I was just."' Alexia came before him and his death was near than the mouse . "Nooo—" As Alexia grabs his striped darker orange rings tail. Suddenly, he disappeared from her hand along with his toys and the junk panel.
[ Cleaning junk complete]
[ Rebooting system to new…]
Unshaken, Alexia just looked around with ice cold grey eyes. The void spined and run in the speed of light. Then, glitched occur and goes back to black again with a sound of system notification.
Ding!
The blue panel, a new high tech than the first junk one floated infront of her glowing steadily. The memory of msg from Lys came to her mind before her death.
[System integrity maintained]
[Update complete]
''So, its same old system.'' Suddenly, a pair of double doored glass boomed, reflecting heavily with infinite light.
[System Notification : Welcome Home]
Alexia sighed, her expression unimpressed same as usual letting the previous life go. She pushed open the glass doors.
***
''It looks smaller than my house.'' Alexia says with no doubt alone looking at a big palace looking house. The interior was still in construction and the furnitures, plant and stairs were forming from streams of light and energy. A portrait of motivation showed up on one wall—dark aesthetic, dramatic, and utterly childish by Alexia.
Alexia embarrassed with, unimpressed face.
"Delete it," she muttered. Almost immediately, the system began redesigning her quote. The system quickly scared replaced it with her portrait in elves form. As soon as it formed, she snapped, waving her hand down with no words left as the system highlighted her portrait with candle facing directly as a funeral.
From behind her, an orange tail swirled in a soft movement caught her attention. Alexia checks her newly formed long curved luxurious ivory sofa at the middle of left and right wing, and straight leading to door. The orange cat was laying flat cleaned and shiny, than before. The dummy fish now colorful stripes clutched firmly in his paw. His radiated excitement, eyes wide and shouted, "Yes! Yes! Finally! I'm rich" showing his comfort. Even though he formerly claimed himself richest cat. His eyes fell over a white star emoji plushie next to him, "Woo.. She is cute. ''
''Hey! Excuse me! Do you live alone? '' He jazzed.
Alexia glanced over sofa, narrowing her eyes judging his behaviour."…Why are you here?" she called out in her usual cold tone.
"Waahh!" Caught off guard, the cat stammered, flustered by her cold tone. Ouch! My back muffin growl in pain. ''Are you hurt?'' Showing no emotion.
"Yes I am! I had nearly a two heart attacks from your icy cold voice only to see your rude looking mean face! "complaining to his pure annoyance. ''I'm fine by the way" quickly gaining his composure. ''Anyway, Am I staying here from now on''?
''No!'' She frankly rejects him without any second thoughts. "Come on! I..I come along with this system! " He puffed up with smile, trying to look cute. He thought so. Meanwhile, His ridiculous twist expression with weird smile plastered across his face made Alexia ignored him as if he ever existed without debating. Muffin exhaled a dramatic sigh, giving whatever look, buckling onto the pile of plushies.
"Yeah, right," he grumbled, rolling his eyes and continued lounging on the sofa . In a flash, he quickly gets submerged by the richness of comfort raising his dopamine. "Finally… we're here, my lil' fish" he opens up with a relief longing for years.
Alexia's cold doubtful gaze scanned the system panel, her long yet firm fingers tapping over the glowing bar.
[Client History. (Blank)] Tap
[Fabric Locked. Opens At Level 2] Tap
[Personal Assistant. Opens At Level 10] Tap
[Online Delivery. Opens At Level 7] Tap
''So, Am I in level one?''
[Talking Muffin Locked. Opens At Level 124]
"Talking Muffin?" Alexia raised her eyebrow, voice sharp and distant turning slightly to the cat.
"Hey talking cat! You're… free out here when I hadn't even attained you. Explain this yourself''?
Muffin got that immediately and turned back lazily onto the sofa, with his tail flicking.
"Well… In short, this system was once a supreme of all systems, used to control fate and power and rewrite the rules. Owner of this system has the power eclipsed over everything but overtime, people stopped coming due to high level of skills needed to enter one, so it got untouched by anyone for several years," he said with a sigh, voice tinged with exasperation. "So, to run back, it kept lowering its level… and met me along the way.. … until eventually, we became trash. Forgotten."