[That can't be right.]
"Why?"
[My location co-ordination was right.]
"So you think I'm lying about my being normal human?"
[No...are you?]
"What nonsense."
[Okay, fine. If not, then how is it possible for me, the greatest System for Ranking!]
"Alright! Now please come towards the front, everyone!" the woman called.
Freya blinked. She looked at the grey ball in her hand that hadn't yet disappeared. "Now what? Go away then."
[What?]
"Since you got the wrong person, then go away. I have to try to absorb this orb quickly."
[You...you want to send me away?]
"Yeah? What use do I have for you?"
[What use? I'm the best Ranking System out there!]
"So?"
[So?...So?...I'm the...people usually want a System?...]
Freya nodded. "I know but those are useful Systems."
The System felt a dagger peirce through its imaginary heart.
[I'm useful!]
Freya pursed her lips. She saw that almost everyone were in a line. "Listen! I would like to get to know you more but I have an Interview to attend and I need to connect with this grey ball to do it. So will you go away?"
[You want to replace me with that System?]
It sounded heartbroken.
Freya looked down at the ball in her hand in awe. "This is a System I'm holding?"
[The greatest System is talking to you, and you are impressed by that grey ball, low class one?]
Freya sighed. "Aren't you a great System? Go find great Hosts then! Now leave! Everyone has already gathered!"
[Then you better go join them then. Keep that grey ball here. You are not even sure whether you will be able to connect with that System. I'll act as a decoy System for you.]
"But I'm a human?"
[We will deal with that later.]
Freya looked at the grey ball in her hand with longing and placed it back in the shelf. She joined the end of the line.
A shadowed figure stood next to the woman.
The woman narrowed her eyes at the white -shirted girl that joined at the end. Some people just didn't have puntuality as their strength.
The woman smiled. "Now each of you will touch the Lotus again. A name will appear in your hand, for whom you will act as the Substitute for."
The woman raised a small paper. "This is a list of the teachers who asked for a Substitute this year and there are 59 names. So, 59 of you will get the job. The rest would have to leave empty handed."
Freya's eyes followed the name list, eager for her turn. She blinked as she realised that as she was at the end of the line...the chances of her recieving this job was null. Freya's eyebrows furrowed in worry.
The Appliants started to move forward.