Shin had woken up feeling both exhausted and satisfied, his body heavy and his mind still clouded by the aftermath of everything that had happened. As his vision gradually cleared, he noticed Eva, Lilel, and Kaho waiting quietly by his bedside.
"So… what's your new system?" he asked immediately.
Kaho hadn't checked it yet. "I'm not sure, I will look it up," she said.
Lilel fluttered down and landed on top of the shy woman's head, sitting there like a tiny supervisor, already frowning in concentration. Kaho's system wasn't normal, and both of them knew it. Even opening it felt like trying to force a broken mechanism to work.
She had tried before, but it hadn't gone well. There was no clean interface waiting for her, no glowing blue screen. Instead, her "system" interface was black space, filled with scattered words floating in no particular order.
