'Haa, what happened yesterday? Why does everything hurt so much?'
Mika was puzzled as to why he was in so much pain. It's not like he did any intensive work so why all the pain?
" Good morning Mikael. How would you like to celebrate? Am so excited. Quickly tell me how you feel about the new upgrades. "
Mahlia was all chatter immediately after she realized Mika was awake, so much so that she didn't notice his pale face or lack of a reply.
" Small male, you finally woke up. I was going to wake you by force if you had slept much longer. I doubt you can live if you don't eat. "
Kinnai knelt before Mika looking worried. Mika had slept for four days, his body burning up with kinnai's only option being to hold him in the spring to cool him body down.
Mika's body had only started claiming down last night, after which kinnai put him back into his bed.
" Am fine bear, just a little tired." That was all he could say to claim the cute bear who was looking at him with worry in his eyes.
Mika himself was wondering what happened to him, who was sick all of a sudden? Was his cooking so bad it caused this?
While Mika was wondering about the cause of his sudden illness, Mahlia was busy panicking. During the update she was forced to go into temporary hibernation and didn't know what happened to Mika during that time. She was too excited after she came back online because of all the new features that would make her and Mikael's life better that she forgot for a moment the most important thing, Mikael.
She started panicking after she heard the worried words of the bear. She checked her database and found the systems record of what happened whilst she and Mika were out of commission.
Mahlia looked through it and only claimed down after she saw there were disadvantages for Mika in what happened.
Mahlia was going to go through it a second time when Mika called to her, she may have felt it took a long time to go through the record but it had taken the moments in which Mika assured kinnai of his health.
"Were you doing something Mahlia? Why did you not respond? I was starting to think you were having issues too."
Mahlia felt uneasy when she heard this, perhaps she should have told him about the update in advance so he could at least be aware but that could have made him worry unnecessarily too.
At Mahlia's silence, Mika knew something was wrong. His system was so chatty a moment ago, why was she acting like a child who had done something wrong now.
" Mahlia, you must know what happened to me right? Is that why you are so quiet? "
He got no response so he could only continue.
" Are you going to keep ignoring me? You realize that the bear is starting to look at me like am crazy right?"
Mahlia who was still contemplating how to seek forgiveness looked at the still naked bear before her master. It was looking at Mikael with a strenge look.
" Am sorry host... I meant Mika. I should have told you about the system update, I didn't know it would be like this but I can assure you that it's only going to be this one time. Subsequent updates are not going to be like this and also you can speak to me telepathically now. "
' Haa, so she does know what happened to me. At least I got some info about my current situation. '
First, Mahlia can keep staff away from him. She does have autonomy and doesn't seem to be required to share all information with him unless she deemed it necessary.
She also seems to care about him in a way that was intimate, like family. Which was nice and last but not the least, the system updated and there were new features.
At of now, he did not need to speak out loud to communicate with the system. Which means the bear would no longer look at him like he was crazy, especially now that they could understand each other.
Mika looked at the bear infront of him and smiled. I think it's about time we formally got to know each other.
Am Mikael, you can call me Mika.