45 minutes had pa.s.sed since the commencing of what I thought to be a suicide mission. But strangely enough, I wasn't tired at all even after doing more than 400 push-ups. In fact, it was really easy to do it.

-You know, this kind of makes sense. This is probably that surge of strength I felt earlier today when touching that guy. I guess a lot of things happened at once so I didn't properly register everything that happened.

This whole situation is also very satisfying, mostly because of Anami's face right now. Hahhahahaha -

Anami's face right now could best be described as disappointed mixed with anger and a hint of plotting for revenge.

"And… Done! I did it and I feel like I could run 3 marathons right now."

I said and stood up to stretch out my arms.

"Well, that's it. Now, just grab this...o...b..and yell out the magic chant."

Narino said and handed me an orb with a reddish hue over it. The orb had the words 'The answer lies within your heart' carved into it. But upon hearing what she said, I started thinking back to the club room and a question popped into my mind.

"You said you guys had a '2-hour schedule here to train me in specific areas', but I've only trained my arm-muscles by doing these push-ups. When are we going to train the rest?"

I asked sincerely.

Upon asking, I was received with a small laughter from the blue-haired girl, named Sora Ikutsu.

Suddenly, Yellow light sprung up from the orb and covered all my vision. I yelled out

"Why is that a magic chant, and how the h.e.l.l is that 'carved into my heart'!?"

The light was overwhelming and I fell down and dropped the orb. There was also a powerful pressure that could be felt in the area. Suddenly a big *BANG* noise was heard and the light changed color to red and calmed down a bit in terms of brightness. After another couple of seconds of potentially blinding light, it finally stopped and left behind some sort of pink smoke.

At the same time, an overwhelming amount of strength flew into my body and I felt reborn in a way, like I had become a new person. In terms of body that is, in my mind I still felt that all of this was incredibly underserved for someone like me.

Finally, the smoke settled and what was left was the big gra.s.s-field completely wrecked. It almost looked like there had been an earthquake here just a couple of seconds ago.

When I looked around, I noticed 4 people scattered across with the biggest shock on their faces.

"That was insane! By far the biggest reaction we've had with the orb." Narino yelled out. Aya stood up and moved closer to me, she then started tugging my s.h.i.+rt and said

"Hey, Could you please take off your s.h.i.+rt."

I said

"Hmm, let me think about that. Of course

Not!

Why would I… WHAT!? What happened to me!?"

The first part of the sentence was just a 'funny haha' reaction but the second part was actual confusion as to what had happened to me. When I looked down on my body, I noticed that I had suddenly become super buff!

Not like body-builder buff, but I had gotten a noticeable muscular body with slight six-pack abs. Probably one of the biggest shocks I have ever got.

I didn't even care that there were girls here, I needed to see these muscles for myself. I quickly took my s.h.i.+rt off to inspect.

I touched one of the abs and it was quite hard.

-Haha, funny s.e.x joke incoming

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"They're kind of hard. Just like something else is in the morning."

I joked and continued to touch the different muscles.

"Can I… touch them?" Aya asked, she was almost drooling while looking at me.

"No way, No one wants to touch the body of a s.h.i.+tty person. I'll spare you that experience." I answered and backed off.

"That's for me to decide, isn't it!?" she said, angrily. She suddenly jumped at me and grabbed a hold of my right arm. She started squeezing me in different places and I didn't really like it.

"I have to say, you're appeal really got an upgrade right now." Narino said and started approaching me.

"I agree." Sora simply said and also started walking.

"Why did you suddenly get a strength-boost, when no one ever before has gotten it before?" Anami said annoyed and started running towards me.

I closed my eyes in fright of what would happen, but all that happened was that another pair of hands started touching my muscles. A couple of seconds later two other pairs of hands joined the 'ma.s.sage'. This was really awkward and uncomfortable for me.

-This should be an amazing experience. But since I try to reject things that would make me normal or even special, I have to stop this immediately. -

I opened my eyes and when I did, I saw four above-average looking girls touching me all over the place. I immediately pulled back and jumped back 1 pace.

All the girls looked at me with puppy eyes, I responded

"I get really uncomfortable when people who actually are something and have accomplished something touch me. I would like all of you to refrain from doing that from now on."

All the girls tilted their heads and Aya stepped forward to ask

"You've been saying stuff like that for a while now, what's that all about? I also heard you almost killed yourself earlier? Do you hate yourself?"

- Oh, right. I guess I haven't told these people yet, only that 'Kori' guy.-

"Basically, I both hate and love myself. I consider myself below everything in this world, I don't really care that much if I die. As long as I can enjoy stuff from this world, I feel like it's worth living. But I also feel like I shouldn't take stuff that I don't deserve, I.e these powers."

I said very casually.

Everyone got a worried look on their faces, even the s.a.d.i.s.tic Anami looked like she worried about someone like me. That was absurd though, it's impossible for anyone to feel anything for me. Another person now stepped forward, this time it was Narino and she said

"You don't care? That's not normal at all, how the h.e.l.l did you develop such a mindset?"

I sat down on the ground and put on my s.h.i.+rt again. I then responded

"There's a lot of factors to my current state of mind, but one of them has to be the way I was treated by my parents when I was younger. I don't really like to talk about it though, it brings back some really dark times."

I was staring down at the ground melancholic-ally upon remembering the 'rejection incident', as I named it. I looked up from the ground and noticed something that shocked me. The others were also looking at me with the same melancholic look.

But Aya quickly brightened up and said

"Well, I have an idea! How about the five of us form a 'Kenjiro watching-pact' to make sure our new friend doesn't do something stupid."

The others also brightened up, Sora said

"That sounds good!"

Narino followed with

"I totally agree. I wouldn't want Kenjiro to hurt himself."

Ibuki simply responded with a small nod.

Anami, as one would think, went against the crowd and said

"Why should someone like I care about a worm like him? I don't consider him my friend, plus I'm a s.a.d.i.s.t I would enjoy it if he hurt himself."

I nodded in agreement with Anami and said

"Look, one of you understand----" before getting interrupted by Aya who said

"Don't be like that Anami. I know you care about Kenjiro at least somewhat. If not his friend, consider him your fellow human."

I suddenly interrupted everyone's chattering by clearing my throat. I said

"Guys, this is absurd. I don't know what ulterior motive you're doing this for, but I have a rule that says that I have to try and not make myself special in any way. Not only that, but I don't even have suicidal or self-harming thoughts! I only said that I was somewhat okay with dying."

Immediately, Narino walked up to me and grabbed my collar and replied

"I don't believe you."

"Eh?" I push out.

Ibuki approached me and grabbed a hold of my hand and leaned in towards my ear and whispered

"It's okay, Kenjiro. You don't have to suffer anymore."

Aya laughed and reached out her hand.

"Let's do a promise then!"

Sora smiled and joined in,

Narino let go of my collar and joined in,

Ibuki slowly let go of my arm and calmly joined in,

Anami let out a "Hmph" and reluctantly joined in.

"1.. 2.. 3 and let the pact begin!"

And so the weirdly named 'Kenjiro watching-pact' was formed between the five girls.

I once again interrupted their cheering and chattering and said

"More importantly, you said we were gonna find out my affinities, yeah? When's that happening?"

Narino got a tired facial expression and said

"Right now, just grab the orb again and say the magical chant."

Before picking it up, I had to say

"About that, how the h.e.l.l did you know I was going to say that?"

Anami returned her smile and yet again got a c.o.c.ky facial expression and said

"Didn't you know I'm one of the smartest in school?"

My jaw almost dislocated, I said

"There's no way you know so much about me that you were able to predict what I was going to comment on. If you are, we're pretty much polar opposites in terms of intelligence."

Anami got a c.o.c.ky smile and said

"That's right, I'm above you in mult--" before getting interrupted by Sora who said

"If you think about it, isn't it kind of a normal thing to comment on? Anyone remotely smart would point that out and that's why we made that the magic chant. Because there was a chance that you would try to run away."

I deeply sighed and uttered the cursed words

"When are we going to train the rest?"

And suddenly the orb turned into that bright yellow light, but this time it was in a concentrated area and not all over my vision. That light then turned into a piece of paper where there stood

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Name: Kenjiro Asukara

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Stance: Special individual.

General affinities: All general affinities are lvl 2 except Strength, lvl 8.

Special affinites: Time, lvl 0. s.p.a.ce, lvl 0. Sneak, lvl 0. Elemental manipulation, lvl 0. Tree growing, lvl 0. Drawing, lvl 0. Light, lvl 0. Dark, lvl 0. Elemental Unity, lvl 0. Limit-breaking, lvl 0. Rare powers, lvl 1

Individual special abilities: Still calculating the abilities, but currently available abilities to look at are;

Time slowing, lvl 0. Time speeding, lvl 0. Time stopping, lvl 0. Teleportation, lvl 0. Room-creator, lvl 0. Stealth, lvl 0. Elemental casting, lvl 0. Tree grower, lvl 0. Anime/Manga artist, lvl 0. Photo-realistic drawing, lvl 0. Speed, lvl 0. Light manipulation, lvl 0. Shadow-manipulation, lvl 0. Elemental combination, lvl 0. Above And Beyond, lvl 0. Power-stealing through damage, lvl 2. Hotou Kaito-system, lvl 0.

Available points for spending: 3

Please unlock 'Hotou Kaito-system, lvl 1' for easy upgrades.

t.i.tles:

Currently hidden; 15

Currently available for viewing;

Kaito powers-user.

One Of A Kind Hero.

Available to unlock; 60+.

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- Oh, boy. I'm 1300% not happy right now. Why am I smiling then? Guess there must be something wrong with my nervous system.-