A Reason to Live

Revival;Making New Friends

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"Master!"

I heard a young girl's voice in my head. It was a rather annoying voice and I wanted to just ignore it.

"I said Master! Stop ignoring me! Wake up! UP! UP!"

I snapped upright with a tick on my forehead and yelled comically,

"Shut up, you annoying little-"

When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a completely different dimension. Everything was dark, including the background, the floor, the sky. I could make out some structures but they were made of several complex green codes, almost like I was in the matrix. I turned my head to see free falling codes with some static sounds.

Then I heard the same annoying voice from earlier,

"Finally. I thought you were going to just stay there like a dead log. I was getting so bored."

Just behind me, a girl materialized from nowhere. If there was one word to describe her, it would be blue. Her pigtail hair, blue, and her eyes, teal, but her skin, pale as snow. She wore a blue jumper too big for her size and a dangerously short black skirt. Her stockings covered most of her legs, but when my eyes trailed down, I didn't see her foot. It was pixelated and she simply floated around like a spirit. She was the height of an average teen, but still kind of looked short, from my perspective. (AN : The picture above )

"Will you stop staring at me, pervert." She said, her expression slightly turning into an annoyed glare.

I snapped out of my daze and brought my hand to my forehead in pain.

"I must be dreaming." I said to myself as I fell back onto the floor and closed my eyes firmly.

Then I felt something heavy fall on my stomach. With a temple bulging, I opened one of my eyes and glared at the entity sitting on my stomach, staring at me with an unreadable expression.

"Wake up, you lazy punk." She said in a tone that pissed me off a bit.

"Ahng?!"

"I said wake up. Only punks like you can growl like that."

"Who the hell are you supposed to be?!"

I saw the girl smirk proudly to herself,

"Hmph! Seems like my master's finally interested in knowing who I am!"

"Mm… No, not really."

"Oi!" The girl retorted comically with a tick mark.

I shoved the girl off of my stomach and stood up. The girl simply floated next to me and watched as I got up.

"So? Who're you? And where am I?" I asked as I looked around the mysterious dimension.

"I don't know if master remembers, but I'm an AI built into your core. My purpose is to serve you. And you're in my home, the central processing unit."

I shook my head and stared at her as if she was crazy.

"Artificial Intelligence? My core?"

I hadn't a single idea what she was talking about. I understood that she was a computer, but what did that have to do with me?

As if the girl read what was on my mind, she pointed towards my chest. I followed the direction of her finger down to my chest and saw a large metal plate covering the left side where the heart was. It was slim and didn't bulge out. It also fitted proportionally to my body and so it wouldn't stick out over a shirt, but still, there was a piece of metal in my damn body.