Chapter 2: Transmigration

Rose opened her eyes. What greeted her was pitch black darkness. She was perplexed.

' Have I died? But why is so dark here?.....My god have I gone to hell instead of heaven because of committing suicide?!!'

'...no way right? Ha..ha..ha...'

Rose stopped her train of thoughts as she noticed that she was still breathing. Her eyes widened.

'...I am still alive even after falling from such a height... Impossible!!!! '

Then Rose tried to stand up from the lying position. But, as soon as she stood up, every inch of her body screamed with unbearable pain. She again fell down on the floor. Rose didn't dare to move again in fear of the pain.

Suddenly, a bunch of foreign memories were played in her mind like a movie. It was the memory of a mentally disabled girl of 16 year old. At that moment Rose understood that she had actually died but her soul had transmigrated into this girl's body. On the top of that this was a totally different world.

This world is extremely similar to the Earth. Only it had two moons, orbiting around it. The place where she was in present, was called Winstone city. It's culture was quite similar to America. The body Rose was occupying was of a mixed race between the eastern (who are similar to the Asians) and western race. Her name was Sky.

Sky was also born in a prestigious family like Rose. But unlike her, Sky had a very loving family. Although she was mentally disabled and acted like a five year old girl, her family pampered her like a princess. Her family was the richest family in the city, owning the largest company there was. Her elder brother spoiled her to the core. Everything was so perfect that Rose inwardly felt jealous. Sky's life portrayed the beautiful example of a affectionate family that Rose wanted from the depth of her heart in her previous life.

But, alas! as the saying goes 'nothing lasts forever.' On a particular rainy day Sky waited and waited for her parents to come to give their good night kisses to her like usual. But they never came. She waited until it was twelve in the clock. Then she got angry. As a mentally five year old spoiled kid, she then picked up her pillow and decided to give her forgetful parents a punishment - a surprise pillow attack. But as she neared the room of her parents, Sky found the door of her parents' room was wide open. The still naive Sky didn't think much and rushed into the room. But the following scenes made her pause in the middle. Her hands still held the pillow. Sky's slow thought process couldn't make a single thing of the event happening in front of her.

Even Rose who was going through the memories of Sky shuddered at the scene. Red blood was splattered everywhere. The dim light of the bedside lamp made the scene more horrific. The dark red blood had mixed with the pitch black darkness of night. Sky watched with widened eyes that her headless father's body was lying lifelessly on the bed. He still wore the grass ring that she made for him in the afternoon. As Sky took another step her feet felt a obstruction. She looked down and to her horror Sky found her father's head, his eyes still wide open in surprise and fear. She froze. At that moment a ear splitting sound of lightning made her paralysed body move again. Sky ran from the room panicking. She hurriedly climbed down from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor. But what waited her was more blood and dead bodies of the maids and servants. In the silent mansion Sky suddenly heard sounds of faint struggling from the drawing room.

As soon as she entered the drawing room she saw many men in dark clothes and dark masks. Among them a particular one was strangling her mother on the floor. Sky didn't know what the man was doing but she knew he was hurting her mom. She ran towards the man and tried her best to free her mom from the man's clutches but instead got beaten almost to death and lied on the floor facing her mom with dim eyes that was overflowing with tears. Her mother, who was slowly suffocating on the edge of death looked at her daughter helplessly and with very difficulty said her last words as if it was a prayer.

"... please.....do... don't....kill...her..."

Then her heart stopped. The man who was strangling her laughed out hysterically, then looked at the dead woman, who was still as beautiful as the goddess. His gaze moved to the even more beautiful Sky, who had already fainted. His intense lust was evident in those inhuman eyes. He licked his lips as if eyeing an delicious meal.

" Don't worry, I won't kill her. As I didn't have the opportunity to taste you in the past, I will taste your daughter instead."

Then, he looked at the other masked men and said lightly, " Boys, restrain her in a room first. After I complete some minor tasks, send her to my bedroom." He paused for a moment, then smiled sinisterly, " After me, you can also have a taste of her....that is if she remains alive...ha..ha.."

And thus the current situation. Sky was locked up in a dark room. She already had a weak body. After mentally and physically injured severely, She couldn't hold on anymore and died. It was at that moment Rose's soul drifted into her body and possessed it.

Rose took a deep breath and processed Sky's heavy memories. She came to a conclusion.

' By any means, I have to escape or I will be in big trouble. Damn it!! Even if I don't fear death, I don't want to die because of raping. Not in this way...never!!!'

After that Rose gritted her teeth and slowly stood up enduring the nerve wrecking pain. She had just taken a few steps when she was startled by a child's immature voice.

" Hungry, so hungry....."

Rose was startled. She began to blindly look for some support in the darkness to stable her footing before finding the source of the child's voice. The voice spoke again.

" Ah...go to your left. There was a wall there."

As Rose moved to her left side. She truly found a wall. She then asked," Where are you child?"

" Currently, in your head."

"..…..."

Rose thought, these days children had really grown rude to the elders. Soon the childish voice as if could read her mind, said with extreme grief, " Hey, I am really not being rude towards you. I. Really. Am. In. Your. Head!!! "

"..."

As the voice saw that Rose was silent, it said seriously,

" Cough..cough....Let me introduce myself first. I am the all powerful, high tech, host friendly system no. 28976. I am here to support you in this unknown world. If you sign a contract with me you can dominate the world...no the universe, can get anything you want....no..can get more than the things you want and can reach the peak of human race and even enslave the god..Just ima-"

At first Rose was delighted to know that she was bestowed with a golden finger in her new life at the moment of crisis. But the cliche sentences spoken by the system made her frown in suspicion. The so called system clearly just recited a devil's speech to lure someone in the trap. It was just missing one sentence, ' Give me your soul. ' But it's voice was really immature and innocent. She cut it's blabbering in the middle. Rose couldn't help but asking,

" Did you copy your speech from some devil's journal?"

"How do you know?!!"

"....."

Rose thought in his mind, ' Ah.... this system is really so unreliable.....'

She sighed and said, " Just cut to chase! Don't complicate things."

After a while of silence, the system sobbed miserably, " wu..wu..wu... please dear host, form a contract with me. I am so hungry. I haven't eaten anything since leaving the Universal academy of Systems.....wu..wu..wu...no one would form a contract with me because I am programmed as a child. But I am really very useful and powerful....wu....wu...wuuu..."

Rose's head started to hurt. She asked, " Now, stop already....and you are a system. Why do you need to eat? Then again what's your eating has anything to do with forming contract with me?"

The system perked up, " Of course it has everything to do with you. We systems have to eat energy to keep our existence in the world. And host, you will be the one to collect the energy."

Then it began to sob again," wu..wu..wu...Host, it has been full hundred years, I haven't absorbed a single bit of energy. One more year without any energy and I will vanish. You are the last chance, i will get to form a contract with. So, please....."

Rose thought for a moment and said," What uses do you have?"

The system saw it still had hope. So it began to boost.

" Endless amount of food, clothing and many other things in exchange of energy..."

"And?"

" And when you have collected a certain amount of energy points you can buy a body for me from the system so that I can protect you from any harm."

" I can't use it at this moment. Continue."

" And I can give you a newbie package where you can achieve a amazing supernatural ability by drawing lottery."

" An ability....hmm...I need it now very much. Fine I will form a contract with you. Hurry."

" Umm...."

"What? You have something to say?"

" No..no.. absolutely not!!"

The system hurriedly avoided what it wanted to say. Then a very dimmed transparent screen appeared in front of Rose. She frowned and asked, " Why is the screen so dim. I can't see it clearly even in the darkness."

" Host, I really don't have any extra energy to brighten it up. Please just click on right side on the bottom."

Rose sighed. She read many novels where the protagonists were given different kind of mighty systems.

' But why is it in my case, the system is so miserable?'

The innocent system read Rose's mind and cried internally.

As Rose clicked on the right end of the screen, their deal had been sealed. And Rose clearly heard the childish system breathed a sigh of relief. Rose thought,

' Why do I feel like I have been fooled?'

Rose didn't think much of it and asked for the newbie package. The system stuttered and said in a very low voice as if it was guilty, " That Host....umm....It was indeed the system's duty to unlock the newbie package for the host. But you see host, I really don't have the required energy points....so...so.....you have to earn energy points first to....."

If anyone could see Rose's face right now they would find it full of black lines. She said in a dangerously calm voice,

" Then, why didn't you tell this before?"

The system shuddered in fright. It again began to sob.

" wu..wu..wu..If I told you before you wouldn't form a contract with me and I would have died. wu..wu..wu"

Rose's head started to hurt.

" Shut up!! Are you a sobbing system? Always crying....so, at this moment what can you do?"

The System immediately shut up and said in a small voice," I..I can heal your wounds and make you a little bit stronger than the current body....but..after that I will go into a deep sleep for a while until you collect your first energy points."

" So, how can I collect this energy points, you keep talking about?" Rose asked.

The system excitedly said," Host, it is actually life force."

" Life force? How do you collect it?"

" Host it's simple. You collect it by killing someone."

"...."

After a brief silence she exploded, " Do you think of me as an psychopath, going on a killing spree everyday for you?!!"

The system hurriedly said," Host, please calm down, you don't have to kill living humans. After six months this world would eventually go through the Apocalypse. Then you can always kill one or two zombies for their life force."

Rose was bewildered. She was processing the vast information in those few lines when suddenly she heard footsteps nearing her room. Rose threw her previous thoughts in the back of her head and said to system, " Hurry, heal me."

The system also understood the crux of the matter and distributed it's remaining bit of energy into Rose's body. Then it went to sleep.

Rose felt a warm, comfortable current ran throughout her body. She soon noticed that her pain had gone. She sighed in relief, ' At least this time it didn't lie.'

The footsteps stopped in front of the door and then the door opened with a creak. Rose pretended to be unconscious. Then she heard a figure coming near her. The figure kneeled in front of her. Rose was about to attack, after all she didn't practiced mixed martial arts in her previous life for nothing. But she soon stopped as she heard a woman's whispering.

" Young miss, wake up, hurry."

Rose stood up. From the little light coming from outside the door, she saw that the woman was Sky's family's current chef.

" Young miss, I hid in the fridge, so they didn't find me. Hurry, we must leave from the back door while there is still no one there."

Then the woman grabbed her hand and left the room. Rose didn't resist. If things were going so smoothly why make it complicated?

The second floor was completely empty. They smoothly left the second floor and climbed down the first floor carefully. The woman hurriedly crossed the drawing room and entered the kitchen while dragging her. There was a little bit of noise coming from the rooms beside the drawing room. The guard was really lacking. As no one has ever imagined that a maid would be still alive and a mentally disabled girl will be able to escape.

They smoothly escaped through the backdoor. As soon as they came to the main Street the woman called for a taxi and decided on a particular address before riding off.

The rain had stopped but the sky still grumbled gloomily from time to time. Sometimes a flash of dry lightning enlightened the surroundings.

Everything went so smoothly that Rose couldn't believe it. But she felt something was missing and soon remembered what was it. She looked at the direction of the mansion from the taxi window and vowed in her heart.

' Don't worry Sky, One day I will take revenge for you. So rest in peace. And thank you for giving me a chance of living a new life. I will cherish it.'