"Don't tell me" said Aki in shock at what he felt inside his very being, what he suspects something like a soul of sorts as he knew what had happened.
Soon, just like the delivery man's own Gift, Aki's body started to float into the air with slight difficulty but he quickly got used to it and stood in the air in wonder.
"A- am I Despair?" said Aki as he sat on the air in a lotus position and started to rapidly think.
"No, Despair's Gift seems to be different from what I have but let's say I am him or I am his descendant. How did he die if let's say, he has the same Gift as I have, if he was vastly stronger compared to me and have stolen many Gifts… wait? How did he even die if he had lived so long? He should have thousands of life-saving Gifts? Or is it that Hope's Gift is stranger than I have thought. Sigh, let's just say that I have a very strange Gift and not worry about this stuff, I didn't even do anything evil per se, gah, I'll just stay neutral for now and maybe join Hope Academy, the number one school for becoming a Hero or for mastering your Gift and become one of the best in the world. It would give me a great alibi and even though it would be risky, as long as I stay low key or high key depending-saving the situation, I could probably make a safe background for myself in due time as long as I don't do anything too obvious" muttered Aki as he made a general plan that would not arouse the interest of anyone powerful while he could amass more power for himself while staying under the radar or heck, he could even do something risky but also perhaps the safest like becoming a Hero.
"Now what do I do with you" muttered Aki as he looks at the girl's naked body standing by the side.
"If death is the condition to make someone my undead pawn, then she should be pretty useless in the grand scheme of things" muttered Aki as he flew towards her and look at her in the eye.
"Kill yourself" said Aki as soon, her body dropped dead on the ground as the feeling of something entering and returning happened once more and felt his body becoming better than it ever has with the feeling of vigor filling his entire body.
"Hmm, it seems like her Gift works based on DNA and uses a large amount of energy to function, it seems like a combination between physical energy and something else, hmm, it should be the strange thing that has entered my body after killing them and also the thing that I gave away when I heal or revive someone" muttered Aki as he took a droplet of blood from her newly made wound on her hand and licked it from his fingers.
'It seems like she was able to modify her body from before because of her Gift, and with the help of my Gift, she was able to change some basic things like hair color, but only easier though, it seems like anyone under my control gain an unnatural amount of control towards their own body' thought Aki as he started to activate his new Gift of shape shifting.
Soon, his body started to transform into the girl and felt his body getting stronger, healthier, the pain that he felt for years vanishing with a simple command and felt an endless amount of joy well up inside him.
"hehehehahAHAHAHA!" said Aki as he hugs his new soft squishy body of the girl and touch his body all around and felt the lack of pain, the paint that continuously haunted him for years as his face flushed red and became an ahegao.
"Huff, puff, ahhh~" said Aki as he floated into the air and continuously touch himself in the air and felt how good it was, with each breath he felt joy, with each exhale he felt his body going into a peaceful state, gone was his weak body littered with pain and replaced by a beautiful maiden of joy.
"Fuwah! My body feels so great!" said Aki as he revived the girl back from the dead but this time, the piece of himself that he gave away didn't attach to anything for the girl as her dead body just went to life but as if she was in a coma, her body was still laying on the ground without any response.
"Huh, so it's kinda something like a soul? So, am I giving away my soul to heal them? But I did heal her just like this so maybe it's just a lack of control on my part, but finally, my weak body is now gone" said Aki as he pick up her dead body along with the delivery man and covered it in a sack and headed upstairs.
"Sorry, but I don't want to be convicted as a murderer so you're welcome nature" said Aki as he flew towards somewhere barren and luckily for him, their house was not that crowded with people as few lives in the area where their house is located as it was inside the rich people area.
"Hmm, where do I hide their body?" muttered Aki as he already took some countermeasures like checking if his fingerprints have changed and it did, and some other minute details that could connect the murder to himself and was sure that the blame would instead be put towards the dead girl so it would make the situation stranger with how and why is the murderer dead along with the victim?
"Fuck it, I'm just gonna do something simple" muttered Aki as he started to float higher and higher until he felt the lack of oxygen and started to spin at a rapid pace in mid air, soon, his spin became faster and faster with his head slightly getting dizzy.
And as his spin reached its peak, he let go of the sack with it flying through the air into somewhere unknown as he watched it with an amused smile while still having the girl's healthy body.
"Phew, I just want to take a deep nap right now" muttered Aki in the air as he or more appropriately with his current body, she, flew back down towards their house with a yawn and landed on the soft ground covered in light snow with her soft bare feet that is probably a 9.5 out of 10 if someone had a foot fetish as he stretched his new female body around.
"Ngh, the snow feels so great now that I'm not freezing to death" muttered Aki who was using the girl's body and entered back to his house and plop down on the couch and felt her mind going to dreamland as she yawned in joy and peace.
And soon, Aki fell asleep with a peaceful face while still using the girl's body but soon, her body reverted back into his real body as rapid changes started to happen towards his outward and inward appearance, his skin became rosier, his body became more muscular and more as if life was pouring in to a dead corpse, and without him noticing, his one and only wish for a decade was fulfilled in his deep slumber.
AN: You're fucking welcome, but you kinda gay tho if you got hard, just saying. Me? I'm not gay, source? Trust me bro.
Now will he be an evil mc?
- well its more like Chaotic Neutral and would not really start any conflict unless he is somewhat sure that conflict is the best option, or a good and convenient option, you'll get what I mean later, but later? When he starts to get suspicious on some stuff and needs protection, well he will use some drastic measures to survive, it may look an act of good or evil to some and its personally on what the reader's view is.
Will this be a super serious novel rise to the top
- no, well kinda, but its not that serious, well it will be in the future arcs where I will have to use my big brain again just like in FB, but for the first few arcs it will be just a happy Aki enjoying life.
The Sword of Damocles hangs above each and everyone one of you with its ever present threat of despair, so send me some power stones with your power of friendship and save the thousands perhaps even millions to come who will read this masterpiece immortalized in the tunnels of time.
(March 7, 2022 – 103rd day of writing)