Chapter 2

The suffocating sensation of drowning in the sea felt like it happened just yesterday.

I jolted awake to hear Gianna's incredibly excited voice.

"I want this one!"

She pointed at the Beauty System without hesitation, making her choice.

After speaking, she looked at me triumphantly.

"Violet, you've always let me have everything since we were little.

I finally found something I like in this Beauty System---you won't fight me for it, will you?"

In that moment, I instantly understood.

She had been reborn too.

We had both been reborn to the moment before we received the two systems.

On this day, Gianna and I went camping in the suburbs and encountered an old man who was dying of thirst.

I couldn't bear to watch and wanted to give him my water.

But Gianna stopped me.

"These days, doing good deeds doesn't get you good karma."

I frowned, hesitating.

Gianna crossed her arms, watching coldly.

"Besides, who dies of thirst nowadays?

Even if he's really thirsty, he can just find river water to drink.

Worst case, he could even drink his own urine..."

But a human life was at stake.

I quickly pushed aside the gloating Gianna and handed over my water bottle.

The old man was finally saved.

To repay us, he gave us two systems.

When we heard that one system was called Wealth and the other Beauty, Gianna's eyes lit up as she rushed forward.

"The Wealth System---does that mean I'll become a millionaire?

Then I definitely want the one that brings the most money!"

So without consulting me, she chose the Wealth System without hesitation.

The old man was clearly saved by me, and she had just been advising me to mind my own business, but now she was first in line to claim credit.

Though I felt a bit uncomfortable, considering she was my own sister, I ended up taking what was left.

"Beauty is good too. It's better than nothing.

After all, finding a suitable husband and living an ordinary, simple life isn't bad either."

I contentedly bound myself to the Beauty System.

From that moment on, my and Gianna's fates began to undergo earth-shattering reversals.

"Violet?"

Gianna impatiently waved her hand in front of me, pulling me back from my thoughts.

"I want to choose the Beauty System. You wouldn't want to fight me for it, would you?"

"In your last life, you lived so happily. This time, such a good system should be my turn, right?"

She shrank back warily, as if afraid I would make the same decision as last time, seemingly determined not to let me have the system.

I looked at her silently for a moment, then shook my head.