A painful Sour orange but with a brighter hope

(Edit: Changed eyes from white to blue as that didn't make sense at the time. Also spellchecked)

'This isn't too bad' thought Neera as the orb finished dissolving in her mouth reappearing in the inventory.

Unexpectedly though, a dull headache came on, intensifying with every second until she was on the bed holding her head, holding back her screams as the memories flowed through her head like a rushing typhoon.

Her head felt like it was going to crack into small pieces any second now until relief flowed in. the pain calmed down, calming herself down Neera thought to herself 'I never want to use that again, why is it so painful?! Couldn't they make it painless?!' cursing the creator of the orb she shakily sat up, the Tabs still open she could see that she had completed the quest.

Taking a moment to breathe, she looked over the contents of the rewards once again. Feeling that it was probably worth the pain she claimed the quest.

Seeing the items pop in her quest, she hears a 'DING' sound, checking almost every tab until she finds a menu which wasn't there before, it read.

*NEW*~MENU~

Stats

Inventory

Quests

*NEW* Gacha

*locked* Shop

'Gacha? Is it like Genshin Impact Gacha? Or I hope to god it's not like what I am thinking about'

Opening the Gacha tab, and what looks to be a Toy vending machine (or Gashapon I think) Falls in front of her, It was tiny in size being able to fit in her palm easily.

The actual Menu tab itself held instructions and some more options to use.

~GACHA~

"It is GACHA TIME! Since you completed your first-ever quest!~ you get an extra special reward! Isn't that AMAZING?!"

Spins: 5

Gacha Items: Knights - Skills - Affinities - items~

'Oh so it was nothing of what I thought about, I think I'll leave this for later' Neera thought, as she explained in her mind that she was very much not in the right mind to use it, although we all know better as she is an addict to Gacha games.

Trying to pull her mind off the Gacha machine, she wills the tab away. The tab with the tiny machine itself turns into light and disappears into thin air, she remembers that she is in fact not in her old room but instead in a small damp looking room that appears to have moldy walls as well as leakage.

A broken mirror stands right in front of the bed, the moonlight illuminating it just enough so that Neera could see what it showed.

A small child, that looked to be five years old, with long white hair that probably has never been cut or washed and blue eyes, pale ghostly white skin at this point if you yelled "GHOST" it probably would not be that wrong of a description.

Neera moved her hand, and the child in the mirror followed. Then a sudden realization hit her 'wait is that me? But I'm so small!'

She cried in her head 'This is unfair! I thought reincarnator's supposed to get OP items and cheats?! Where is mine?!', after having her tantrum she sat in a crisscross shaped position and re-organized her thoughts, sighing in disappointment but what else can she do about this.

After spending a few minutes thinking she decided to lay down and sleep, from her memories she can tell that her birthday was tomorrow, yet the old her died of starvation as the orphanage she was reincarnated in was not in the best state right now.

She would have to deal with this tomorrow though the adults were whispering about a new sponsor recently, although the old Neera didn't know what a sponsor was, Rachel did.

Assuming the best outcome would be it's just a high-class family wanting to be nice for once was not the best thing to do, as usually that just leads to disappointment, sighing she closes her eyes and gets ready for tomorrow, after all, there is a lot to do.

~Chapter four end~