I woke up before mommy and daddy today. I don't wanna wake them up. I'm gonna go downstairs. The stairs always kinda scary, here I go. I'm hungry, I want to eat something. I'm going to open fridge and I'm gonna eat. There's tomatoes in here, but I want my tomato cut. I could cut it using a knife! But the counter too big. I could use a chair to reach like my big brother showed me. There, now i just have to get on it and grab knife. There, now I cut the-
"Luis!!"
It's just daddy, why does my hand hurt. I cut myself!
"UWAAAAAA."
"Luis. Are you alright show me your hand"
Daddy grabbed my hand.
"I *sniffles* was hungry *sniffles* and then I *sniffles* so I didn't *sniffles* wake you up so I *sniffles* I'm sorry. UWAAAAA!"
"Luis, It's okay. I know you didn't mean any harm and you were trying your best. But remember, to rely on mommy and daddy next time , okay"
"*sniffles* Okay*sniffles* "
"Now let's get you a band aid ."
"A Pokemon one."
"Yes" said daddy smiling
I wake up to my alarm. Something like that did happen huh. Looks like yesterday wasn't the first time I cut myself. Would that be a record? 'Youngest to ever cut himself.' I'm not sure if that's a record I want or not. I get up, change into my running shirt and shorts and get jogging just like everyday. I go for my jog as usual. Wait, what if I could, I look around, okay no one is around. I want to try maintaining a flame while running. Let's see then. I try to make a small flame appear on my right hand while running,I don't make it too big, not because I can't make it bigger, it's so that just in case someone sees me they don't notice,definitely....I got a bit slower because I was concentrated on making it so I try to get backup to my usual speed but it vanished. Well this is difficult. I try several times with slight progress every time but it always vanishes. This continues until I got back to the apartment. Ughhh, that was mentally tiring, I will keep on trying though, I should make a goal. That way I have something to strive for. But first, I want a relaxing bath, I'm too beat for this. I take a bath, yes and actual bath, in just two days I've gone through some physically and mentally tiring things. I get off the shower and start cooking breakfast again, (Author's note: I'm just not good at cooking okay, that's another reason why I don't specify, I don't know how to make stuff!) and again there's that familiar sound on the background. To my surprise though, Tara wakes up first and entered the shower quickly. Trevor just tries to open the door but hears the shower running so he just walked over and sat down behind me a the table. Wait, why? Doesn't he usually ignore me. There's a long silence, or at least I think it's long. Well I'll try not to pay it much atten-
"Luis."
"Yes?"
"Where you not taught how to say good morning or something?"
This guy, nope, let's just calm down. Getting mad won't help,I'll just turn my asshole mode on.
"Good morning. To what do I owe the pleasure of your presence?"
"You trying to be funny or something?"
"Were would my audience for that be then?"
He looks at me skeptically. "Where were you with Tara yesterday?"
Hmm, I could tell the guy but I feel like playing with him a bit.
"What makes you think that I was with Tara."
"You came in at the same time."
"That could very possibly be coincidental."
" 'Could very possibly.' Now listen her you-"
"Trevor, shower's ready"(Tara)
He looks at me, then at Tara and leaves for the shower with clear annoyance in his face. He goes to where Tara starts coming this way.
"*mumbles* 300 million sperm and that one got through huh *mumbles*"(Luis)
"That's not a nice thing to say about my brother."she says slightly tired.
She looks like she hasn't slept. Well let's pay it no mind for now, I'm sure I'll find out. So why did she shower and change so quickly?
"Well, I don't know about you but my asshole-meter was tingling and I thought I would say some things."
"He's not an assh.. well he is an asshole. But he is somewhat overprotective over me."
"I wouldn't know. By the way what happened with your arm?"
"I can feel normally so it's all good. More importantly remember yesterday when you said Otaku."
"That's a very specific word to remember from all of yesterday." I say sarcastically.
"Do you?" she said slightly annoyed
"Yes, so what of it?"
"Well I searched a bit on the internet as to what that meant. And I ended up on this thing called anime and then I ended up watching the whole night."
"You...did?"
"Yes?"
"Gimme a sec, It just didn't seem to fit you I guess, I was a bit surprised."
"...Well, I was watching and now I have many ideas."
"Oh god no!"
"Overreacting much."
"Tara, the last time you had an idea I ended up with massive cuts on my wrist and a wrongly colored ring ringer!"
"But we did find some things out, didn't we."
"Oh, I see, so you're the type of person who thinks that the end justify the means, huh" I say teasing
"That's not what I-Don't put words in my mouth."
"It won't be the first thing non-eatable thing that has ever entered your mouth." I say teasingly.
"What do you- Luis you-"
We hear the door open and Trevor comes out of the bathroom.
"We will continue after school."(Tara)
"Sure," I say with a grin on my face.
I serve us some food and we have a relatively quiet breakfast. I leave earlier than both of them as usual and get to school.
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The bell for the final period rings and I walk out of class, leave the school , and head towards the station. Well this was an extremely long day. Well, it probably felt long because I wanted to try my powers out. I mean, I got freaking superpowers now, this is like ever otaku's dream or as normies would call it "a man's romance." But either way, I want to see what I'm capable of. Could I possibly try things out during school as well. I mean something like fire is a big no. But try something else, I think I will try to think of something inconspicuous to do during school. Well looks I'm already at the station. I get on the train and off on my stop as usual and head towards my home. It's getting kind of hot lately, Well it is April so I guess it would get hot. I arrive home and there I see a chair with wheels on it; the type that rotates if pushed. Which it does, to reveal a cousin with curiosity filled eyes.
"Fancy meeting you here."
"No shit, it's where we live."
She was a bit thrown off by my answer but then composed herself.
"So, I've heard that you have powers. Well you've come to the right place."
Is this how I act when I binge anime the whole night and not get a single wink of sleep? I'll play along for now
"Certainly ma'am. Can you show me the way to control this power."
"Very well spoken, I will. In due time."
"In due time" I think, I could use this against her.
"Oh, 'in due time.' In that case I'll be leaving. Hit me up when that time comes." I say as I start for my room to get my clothes.
As I walk she seems a bit panicked, is she trying to think up some lines while staying in character? Let's give her one final push, shall we.
'I'm going to try to figure this out on my own for a bit if you don't mind"(Luis)
That did it
"Wait, wait, wait."
"Should a Master such as yourself be speaking in such an in-eloquent manner?"
"Alright I get it now, I get it. I was just poking a bit of fun you know."
"Sure, sure. Now then." I say putting my hands on her shoulders. "How much sleep did you in the last 24 hours?" I ask with a fake smile.
"...You know, the record for the not sleeping is 264 hours." she said with a wry smile
"Funny how I don't see your name on that record."
"Well you see."
"Just shut up. Well at least I can test out something else to see if my healing magic works."
Maybe I should try my hand at fatigue relieving.
"What is it this time?" She said nervously
"Don't worry, it is safer than what we've been doing until now."
"You do realize that not a good comparison, right?"
"I know," I said as I focused on scanning her body and slightly altering my healing magic with the image of releasing fatigue in mind to hit what I'm aiming for. After a few minutes of this I stop."Sooo, how does your body feel?"
"...It feels lighter than before, what did you do?"
"I tried and see if there was fatigue erasing magic."
"Really, now I won't need-"
"I know what you're going to say, but I don't think that's how it works. First, it is natural human instinct to sleep, if you don't, there's a good chance you'll be stressed, you'll need at least 3-4 hours of sleep a day. Second, this magic only erases physical fatigue not mental."
"I see, can you also make a spell so that-"
"It's probably impossible."
"Why?"
"I don't know, it just feels like it is."
"Alright? Then are you going out for a jog?"
"Yep, just gonna get changed, after I get back we will try whatever it is that you're thinking of making me do. Of course, if it's reasonable."
"Alright then I'll take a nap then. See you in a bit"
"See ya"
I headed off to change and I went out for a run. Like last time I tried using my fire as I was running and I saw some slight improvements, well this may be slow but I'm at least getting better. I get back home to see Tara waiting for me.
"I'll be waiting on the roof."
"I thought you were taking a nap."
"It was a power nap."
"Okay then. I'm gonna change real quick and head up there."
I change and head up.
"Alright I saw many things that I wanted to try with fire magic, so we will."
"Please do so in moderation.I'm not an anime character"
And a long afternoon of trying everything, and I mean almost everything that we could think of.Selectively burning something-a little bit of success.Cloaking myself in fire-took many attempts but was successful. Fire fist-success. Fire roar( I wonder were she got this idea from)-success.Setting a fire trap on the floor-success. Manifesting fire in a large range of myself-failure, theta was probably a range from myself in which the creation of fire is possible. Manifestation of fir within objects-failure. I can't make fire manifest within objects, there seems to be a half meter restriction.A flame wall-success. A flame dome-success.A flame whip-failure. A flame spear-failure. A flame sword-failure.A flame axe-failure. Any weapon related attempt was impossible, is there a reason for it? Well I'll think about it later.
We tried many other things until I felt extremely fatigued. It looks like we're close to the limit.Its dark out already, well that took a very long time.
"Well that was a long afternoon, It's almost 10:00."
"I guess so." I say while laying on the ground and looking up.
We talked for a bit afterwards and then we decided to go back downstairs. Tara helped me to my couch and I was about to fall asleep when I realized. Wait, I should probably try that magic speed up absorption thing. Wait, what it went further away from the atmosphere's mana. Is it because I used my powers or because my magic capacity increased after exhausting my mana to this extent. Well I'll do the same thing as last time. I focused and as soon as I felt it worked I fell asleep straight away.