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The girl’s tightly shut eyes opened before the set alarm could even ring.

The interior of the room was different enough from the typical lower-class residential areas of Neo-Haven to warrant mention. It wasn’t actually a lower-class residential area, but Engineer Plaza, where people with decent jobs belonging to Mega-Corps lived, but regardless. It was filled with obscenely expensive and obscenely rare… relics of the old century.

A real wooden bed instead of a capsule bed.

A showerhead pouring clean water instead of an air cleaner.

Even though she had a bio-implant related to sight, there was a landscape painting and an analog clock hanging on the wall.

It was enough to make one deny that it was 2196, with not only the 21st century but also the 22nd century nearing its end.

“…Ha. Fuck.”

Contrary to her pretty appearance, a rather rough curse word slipped out from her small lips.

It was the result of a mixture of relief that she had survived to see another morning and despair that she hadn’t died and was facing the familiar ceiling again, so the girl inwardly hoped that the bastard who threw her into this world was listening.

Swish…

Creak…!

After enjoying the luxury of a warm shower as soon as she woke up. Chewing on a pill containing all the necessary nutrients for a proper breakfast… she approached the window in her underwear and adjusted the transparency of the full-length glass.

• Good morning! Miss Anastasia, I hope you have a wonderful day in Neo-Haven today. 🙂 –

“Suck my dick.”

And so, she, once called ‘he,’ forced the innocent Home AI to act as her emotional garbage can. Anastasia glared at Neo-Haven, commonly known as Emerald City, through the window.

Whether she would devour and achieve her goal to escape, or be devoured, depended entirely on her own skills, so in preparation for the protagonist who would soon appear. Anastasia threw herself into the green light of the city today to earn credits and resources.