Chapter 2: 002~Broke!
Aya watches the promotional video, starting off with a cute blonde fairy mascot flying over what she assumes to be the land of Moon Valley.
"Welcome to Moon Valley an ancient land of secrets and mysteries to uncover, endless fun and adventure await." the fairy says gliding over the lush green hills of the area.
"Wow, this looks so good!" Aya says in a hushed tone, so no one would catch her staring at her phone during work hours.
After the video was done, she scrolls down the page to read more.
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A bubble of excitement grows in Aya's chest as she continues to read through the advertisement. If anything she could play to keep herself busy.
Plus the little fairy was so cute! Aya releases a girlish squeal, quiet enough so her boss wouldn't hear her. When she got home, she would check if she could run the on her laptop.
Nue Corp's office day soon closes like clockwork at 5:00 pm leaving Aya to pack her stuff for the day and start on the long way home.
The evening sky pinks as Aya leaves through the back doors of the office building, placing her earphones in her ear she begins walking, looking up at the beautiful sky.
After another long day, she would soon be heading home into some more stew.
As much as she disliked the rude office workers there was someone she disliked even more, her landlady.
Slinging the backpack over her shoulder, she shakes her head and begins her long walk to the bus stop, she couldn't afford to miss her only way home.
Sitting on the socially provided government bench she pulls out her phone once more to change the song. Bopping her head to the music it isn't long before the bus pulls up to the only person waiting to be its passenger.
The city bus was a large rectangular vehicle with the words Seelim printed on it in bright blue, this particular bus had been running for ages and Aya could already see some parts of it suffered rust, decay, and other little chips in the paint and structure.
The doors push open, begging her to board, Aya gets up from the bench and approaches.
Aya fishes out her bus card, scanning it into the electronic reader as she does. The young lady climbs into her seat and prepares for the drive, looking out her window at the passing buildings.
Lucky her, this was the only bus that would go from her place to Nue Corp and she never missed it. To do so would leave her either absolutely stranded or walking for miles. The dark haired girl relaxes into her seat, letting out a sigh of relief after surviving yet another day.
The bus soon reaches the next stop. Aya feels the doors open, mildly shaking the bus as the doors push open for the next few people to board the Seelim bus.
A group of men board, all weary looking with deep wrinkles and worry lines etched unto their faces. Aya could only wonder what kind of jobs they had.
The passengers all say nothing to each other but Aya offers a kind smile to one of the old men who takes off his hat and nods in acknowledgment to her.
It seemed the poor and the weary all recognized each other.
Aya leans back into her seat, continuing the bus ride home.
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Aya dismounts the bus with a huff, continuing the walk from the stop to the lousy apartment she was renting.
Soon the large but dilapidated building comes into view.
"Home sweet home," Aya says, walking up the steps with missing tiles, nothing like the ones at Nue Corp. She shakes her head, making a turn and heading up the steps to the fourth floor where lived alone.
A sudden clang is heard as the railing she'd barely touched shifts from its mount, dusty rust falls from the side making Aya cough from inhaling some.
'God this place is a dump.' she thinks, still continuing up the steps. Finally, the door of her apartment comes into sight, a discolored green wooden door meets her, labeled 443. The girl reaches into her pocket about to place her key in the lock when a voice coughs beside her.
"Ahem!" the voice belonging to her landlady resounds. Aya groans internally wondering what the woman wanted from her at this hour, all she wanted to do was have a shower and crawl into bed.
"Yes, Aunty?" Aya says facing the woman and trying to put a smile on her face. The older woman rolls her eyes, folding her arms, she begins to speak.
"Rent's due."
"But I just paid!" Aya protests.
"Cut the crap girl, I'm only renting this place out to you as a favor to your mother, my sister. If not for me you would be out on the streets."
"You don't need to remind me every time and it's clearly not from the goodness of your heart if I'm paying rent like everyone else." Aya retorts with a glare.
The woman glares, fury in her eyes as Aya talks back to her. She raises her hand to smack Aya as though the young lady was still a child but withdraws it. Instead, the woman dons a sickly sweet tone.
"Well you only paid me 200 Lue, your rent is now 350 Lue." the woman says. Aya pales, almost regretting how she'd spoken back to the woman.
"Aunty you can't be serious, how can you raise the rent after all the tenants just paid?!' Aya asks with strong desperation.
"It's my building, maybe if your god forsaken mother didn't dump you here on my doorstep I wouldn't be demanding rent that's rightfully mine!" the woman sneers.
"Don't talk about my mother?!"
"Then pay me my cash if you don't want to be out on the streets."
Aya balls her fists, taking out her phone to transfer the remaining 150 Lue to her greedy Aunt.
After confirming the transaction, the woman storms off into her own building, slamming the door shut with such force dust falls from the rafters.
"Greedy hag!" Aya curses her, entering the apartment to unwind for the day.
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"Now I'm almost completely broke," Aya says, crawling into her bed. She hides under the blankets, pulling out her phone once more to listen to music. Opening to check something on her web browser she opens her app and realizes she hadn't clicked off the Moon Valley Promotional page.
The words earn money stand out to her, she chews her lip.
There was no guarantee she would earn much but a few extra Lue would be nice. And even then she could simply have fun playing the game.
Getting out of bed she heads over to her little plastic desk where the laptop sits waiting to be used. She opens it up watching it boot slowly.
She pats the top.
"Old reliable eh." she laughs.
Connecting the PacBook to her terrible quality wifi, she quickly types in the address for the game and waits for the page to load.
A warning box pops up with a message.
[Your device is not compatible with this game.]
The message read.
The girl groans clicking around the site she finds that her laptop was too old to run the game. She would need at least a 7th Gen PacBook, her laptop was 5th, at least two generations behind!
Aya sighs, hanging her head low in disappointment. Oh well, at least he tried. Turning the computer off she heads to bed.
Hopefully, the next day would be better.
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