[ after reincarnation, 15 years ]
Here I am, 15 years into my second life.
With my twin sister, that is.
One day I caught her talking in French, which gave herself away.
Then I told her I too was someone who reincarnated.
My name is Alice, and she is Rena. And we live together alone.
When I asked her about what her two wishes were, she told to me there are three.
I knew he was scamming me!
Anyway, she answered that her first was to be reincarnated, like me.
The second was to live with someone who had similar circumstances as her.
Shouldn’t it have been obvious I was someone who reincarnated too then?
And the third was to have a power that would be the most useful for her second life.
I asked her why not choose one instead? She answered that it may be not the most useful.
Like if she asked to have the best speaking skills, she wouldn't be able to use them. So she asked for the best one possible, even if it meant she wouldn't know what it was.
When I told her about my genie, she laughed really hard.
This world really is technologically advanced.
I mean, holograms instead of screens, voice commands for basically everything in the house, from ordering food to cleaning to even cooking and a lot more.
And most importantly, virtual reality.
It places the users body to sleep, while their mind is in the virtual world.
You can feel everything as if it was real.
A great blessing to someone like me, who can’t move a single muscle without screaming in pain.
Or my sister, who can’t talk and is gradually dying due to her disease.
Well, I am too, but at least I can easily communicate with others.
She can’t without sign language, which not many people know in this world, or typing on a screen to have them read what she wants to say.
First, my illness was supposed to stop all muscles in the body, this included the heart, slowly, starting from one finger, to the hand and then it keeps expanding until it stops the heart.
But this disease had found a cure just a few days before my expected time of death, in the form of a surgery
They tried the surgery on me, and they could only stop it from expanding all the way to my heart. They said it was too late to remove it, they could only stop it.
They also did manage to allow me to move, but the illness is still in my body, which tries to stop my muscles from moving, giving me great pain in the process. So my sister feeds me, since I can’t eat on my own.
As for my sister, her illness is in her throat. This is an incurable disease according to the doctors.
Her throat gets damaged by it slowly, but eventually the infection reaches the back of the neck, and damages the bones and other important parts of the neck, resulting in death.
Good thing is, it’s slow, really slow.
It takes a good 20-25 years from the start of the infection to become life threatening.
These two illnesses are also the reason to why we live alone.
Our parents are big shots from two companies who had the bright idea to marry as a way to bind the two companies together.
After they learned about our diseases, they did literally the best they could to disown us.
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When they tried, Rena sued them for trying to “disown a child that cannot provide for themselves”
That was a real law to protect children.
Yay children laws!
So, we won the case, and the final results were:
Our parents had to pay us 100,000 UC. (Universal Currency, which can be used everywhere, it’s also the most popular type of currency for the same reason.) I would say that 1 UC is roughly 3 USD in my old world.
They also had to pay for our living expenses till we reached 18, this included education.
Finally, when we turn 15, we receive 2 Premium VR capsules, one for each of us.
… I don’t mean the word premium, I mean from the company Premium.
What a stupid name.
The Premium VR capsules provide the best experience possible, replicating all five senses and having insane hardware capabilities.
It also comes with an equally insane price of 10 million UC.
Ten.
Million.
Needless to say, Rena basically scammed them legally.
And that was when we were 12, she is so smart!
Because of this incident, our family got extremely mad at us, they don’t talk to us.
But our parents do, once every few months, just to check if we are still alive, so they don’t have to pay 20 million UC.
I still remember Rena’s laugh at the time, she looked like an old witch from one of those cartoons with the signature high pitch laugh.
Unfortunately for them, today we became 15 years old. At 15 November.
Time to get poor, you bastards.
So, while it is still morning, 9 AM:
“Alyssa, call Mom.”
“Understood, calling ‘Mom’” said a voice from the house’s speakers.
Alyssa is what we named this house’s AI, it manages our house.
“Calling 'Mom'… Call connected” A female robotic voice answered
As Alyssa finished it's sentence, a hologram window appeared in front of me. The window was blue, in the middle was a video of a mature woman with black hair and eyes. The woman looked not-so-slightly annoyed, maybe because I called her when she was at work —but hey, you're not supposed to answer that if that is the case— or perhaps it is because she knows what I am calling for.
"What is it?" She asks, annoyance visibly apparent on her face.
"Mom, it is time for you and dad to buy our VR capsules." I answer, barely able to contain my laughter.
"......We will send those by next week." She hung up.
Only one week, then we can be independent from them.
VR is one of the best ways to gain money if you are unable to leave your home. Since even if you just play games, items and in-game currency can be exchanged for real money if you find a buyer. And there is typically a shop in which you can buy in-game items and currency.
This allows you to grind to obtain a rare item and sell it for UC, or exchange the in-game currency with UC.
This means that we will be able to obtain something like a salary if we work hard enough.
I am looking forward to not seeing those idiots again.
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