*PING!*
*SPLAT*
Hearing the sound of a piercing bullet and crushed flesh, Hajime slowly turned his head and became paralyzed in fear at the sight of his son's dull eyes.
Hitoshi's brain had been completely blown out of his skull, his flesh and blood splattered across the building and Hajime's face.
The side of Hitoshi's head had been completely obliterated, and his left eye popped out of his skull as his hanging tongue and unattached jaw created a disturbing sight to the horrified father.
"Hi- H- Hitoshi...!? Hitoshi? Hitoshi? W- W-" The man blubbered as he fell to his knees with his son in his arms.
"What is- What are- SON!? GRAAAGH!" Hajime yelled in an agonized rage as he shook violently.
However, Hajime's sorrow was soon interrupted by a door opening behind him.
"Mr. Shinso, what was that noise, did something happe--" A woman asked with a friendly smile that soon vanished from her pale face as she dropped the stuff in her hands and let out a gut-wrenching scream.
"AAAAAGH!!! MURDERER!" She screamed with tears as she pointed accusingly at the stunned man.
Hajime was confused.
Him? A murderer!? Absurd!
However, that was when he realized something...
He looked like a murderer.
He was holding the dead body of his son, had a gun clenched in his hand, and was surrounded by a pool of blood and organs.
But it didn't matter...
His son was just killed.
He couldn't care less about anything else that was happening...
His son was just killed...
And he was the main suspect.
And so, with those thoughts flooding through his mind, Hajime shakily hugged his son's body and cried silent tears as blue and red lights overcame the area, a subtle golden glow flashing on Hitoshi's cold corpse.
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...
"Phuuu... Oh, yeah," Kinsei whispered to himself in satisfaction as golden energy coursed through his veins.
Hundreds upon hundreds of foreign memories flooded into Kinsei's mind as he sucked in a steaming breath.
Just like the time with Shiro, Kinsei's body began feeling healthier, his body felt stronger, and his bodily functions ran smoother as his body was cleansed of its unhealthiness.
However, there was another strange thing that happened to Kinsei's body...
Throughout the past couple of weeks, Kinsei's bleached hair had begun to recede to nothing more than highlights to his black hair.
But that wasn't the strange thing. The strange thing was actually how a couple strands of his hair had taken on a purple colour.
And, in the exact same way as Shiro's murder, Kinsei once again opened his glowing amber eyes
[Hitoshi Shinso has been killed by host]
[Host has absorbed Hitoshi Shinso's life force]
[Hitoshi Shinso's memories have been inherited by host]
[Congratulations!]
[Host has gained Hitoshi Shinso's abilities]
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[Kinsei XXXX]
Age: 14
Job: Student
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[Powers/Abilities]
-Deviant Absorption
-Vapor Shifting
-Limited Brainwashing
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[Memories/Victims]
-Shiro Itonsa
-Hitoshi Shinso
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"Nice!" Kinsei nodded to himself as he placed his gun back in his duffel bag and masked his face with smoke.
Kinsei smiled at the new power that he just gained and curiously clicked for more details.
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[Limited Brainwashing]
Details: If someone responds to the user's inquiry, they will fall into a trance-like state where they are aware that they are brainwashed but can do nothing to resist.
-Brainwashed targets can be snapped out of their trance by sudden physical force
-Brainwashed targets cannot perform orders that require complex brain activity
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'That's pretty limited. But I knew that when I chose to kill him... His power is still incredibly useful either way,' Kinsei thought to himself as he curiously messed with the odd purple strand in his hair.
However, something odd soon drew Kinsei's attention and he narrowed his eyes in shock at the sight of the strange system message in front of him.
[Congratulations!]
[Host's [Deviant Absorption] has incited the first evolution!]
"Okay, that's new... Evolution, huh?" He asked himself, scratching his chin as his eyes suddenly went bloodshot.
"AGH!" He muffled his shout with his hand as he fell to his knees in pain.
Pain coursed through Kinsei's body as he aggressively writhed on the ground like a worm with blood leaking out of his ears, nose, mouth and eyes.
"GHAAAAH!" He bit his hand to stop his screaming and clawed at the ground with his cracked nails and bloody fingers as his body spasmed in agonizing contractions.
...
It had been around 10 minutes of suffering for Kinsei, but it finally stopped as he slowly raised himself from his puddle of sweat and blood, panting heavily as his bloodshot eyes stared in confused anger at the system notification in front of him.
[Evolution complete]
[Status updated]
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[Kinsei XXXX]
Age: 14
Job: Insomniac
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[Powers/Abilities]
-Deviant Absorption
-Wind Human (Evolved)
-Brainwashing (Enhanced)
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[Memories/Victims]
-Shiro Itonsa
-Hitoshi Shinso
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"Hahh... hahh... Well, shit! That's fucking great!" He said through heavy breathing as his shaky finger clicked on the two altered abilities.
"But what the hell does it mean by Insomniac?"
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[Wind Human]
[] Evolved from Vapour Shifting []
Details: Allows the user to transform their body into a variety of different forms of air and freely/precisely control those transformed parts of their body to the point of being as sharp as a blade or as solid as a hammer.
-Manifestation of wind can range from the original form of vapour and smoke all the way to rainy clouds and tornados
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[Brainwashing] (Enhanced)
Details: If someone responds to the user's inquiry, they will fall into a trance-like state where they can be freely commanded to follow instructions.
-Depending on the user's mental strength, brainwashed targets can be snapped out of their trance by varying levels of physical force
-If the user's psyche is strong enough, brainwashed targets could potentially perform orders that require complex brain activity
[Mental hold of Brainwashing has been strengthened as a result of evolution]
[The power of Brainwashing itself has increased as a result of evolution]
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As his eyes finally finished reading through the information displayed, Kinsei reared his head back and ran a hand through his hair as he let out a joyous laugh.
"Hehehehehehe!!!" He cackled to himself before quickly shutting himself up as he noticed something strange about himself.
'What in the fuck is this...?' He thought to himself as his bony hands pulled down some of his long locks of hair.
"My hair-! What happened to my beautiful hair!?" He whisper-shouted in agony as he gazed intensely at his insanely long white hair that no longer held any colour and simply had a purple streak on the side of his head.
"My hair, my hair, my hair, my hair!!!" He cried out with pure suffering in his voice as he raked his hands through his lifeless locks.
"I take on the properties of those I kill, which is alright... And I'm happy about the evolution..."
"But did my hair HAVE to become so ugly!?" He muttered to himself in a shout of restrained anger as he walked up to a cracked mirror and gazed at his reflection with an eyebrow raised.
His body felt even healthier than it did before. In fact, it would seem that his body was no longer suffering from malnourishment, as well.
However, the odd thing about that was that, despite feeling healthier, he looked even sicklier than he ever had before.
All the warmth that his skin had accumulated, looked to have completely disappeared and left behind nothing but pale, lifeless, skin and a frail-looking physique.
Lanky limbs, bony hands, anemic skin, hollow cheeks, overgrown white hair, sunken eyes...
The only part of him that had any sort of life within, were his eyes which glowed a golden-orange hue of amber.
Overall, he looked like a zombie.
"Did my body evolve to adapt to dark environments that require stealth...?" Kinsei assumed, "The areas I frequent the most are my cave hideout and places that often lack light, so my body most likely adapted to become swifter, and more suited to stealth..." Kinsei said in a strangely intelligent manner.
"Did my evolution make me smarter?" He mumbled before shaking his head uncaringly and walking back to his stuff.
Kinsei annoyedly glanced at his hair and pulled a thick string out of his bag as he began tying his long hair into a tight bun.
Noticing how late it was getting, Kinsei gave a pleased smile at the sight of a purple-haired man getting arrested before jumping off the building with a cackle.
Just before hitting the ground, Kinsei shifted his body into a gust of wind and began flying back to the hotel.
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*Click*
Kinsei unlocked his door and entered the room with a pep in his step as he threw his equipment onto the singular bed.
Kinsei glanced at the sleeping form of Itsuka Kendo and happily lay on the bed with a relaxed expression, "Time to sleep..."
"..."
"Why can't I sleep?" He muttered to himself as he once again attempted to rest.
"UGGGGHHHHHHHH..." He groaned into the air with sleepless eyes as he realized just what was happening.
'Did I inherit Hitoshi's insomnia because of his memories and the psychic nature of his quirk?' He questioned himself as he shrugged.
'Come to think of it, didn't my Job change to [Insomniac] or something?' He thought to himself as he frustratingly pulled a strand of purple hair in front of his face.
"Damnit all to hell..." He mumbled as he rose from the bed and decided to occupy himself with something else.
If sleep was no longer going to be a regular part of his lifestyle, Kinsei supposed that he'd better get used to it and develop some productive habits.
If he had just gained a whole 12 hours added to his day, Kinsei would take full advantage of this new time and become a fruitful individual.
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...
...
"And then I said "quick, there's no time, I need you to freeze Texas" and woke up!" Kinsei declared proudly as he and a silent Kendo travelled through the streets of Musutafu.
After a couple of hours of Kinsei blankly staring into the air, Itsuka had finally woken from her slumber and the two began walking around the city.
However, Kendo had been remaining silent in fear of Kinsei. She didn't know how but Kinsei had somehow managed to change his whole appearance in a single night.
She knew that his quirk had something to do with wind, but she didn't know how that correlated to becoming a damn zombie over the period of a few hours.
And that's not even mentioning how he had managed to drug her!
Because of all of this, Itsuka planned on doing something she would soon regret.
Kinsei had the habit of remaining fixated on whatever crazy thought happened to pop into his head, which Itsuka planned to use to her advantage.
In Itsuka's opinion, Kinsei was somewhat of an idiot and would be relatively simple to escape from as long as she found out his weakness.
"U- Um, what are we doing now...?" Itsuka questioned nervously as Kinsei simply continued walking.
"Nothing much. I'm just bored," Kinsei shrugged with a strangely serious expression as a befuddled Itsuka rolled her eyes and began scanning the area.
'What an asshole... Just dragging me around wherever he pleases...' She thought to herself with a furrowed brow as her intense gaze turned to the concealed gun in Kinsei's jacket.
That was the gun that had harmed her. A silent weapon that could kill her just as easily as it had injured her.
She was already very angry at him for shooting her in the leg, but now he was making her limp around the city with no discernable goal in mind.
While Itsuka was having angry thoughts flooding into her mind, Kinsei, meanwhile, slowed down slightly as he finally reached his desired destination.
Kinsei lowered the hat over his eyes and turned the area around his right eye into smoke, pushing his eyeball out of its socket as he caught it in his hand and gazed behind him without turning.
Behind him was a distracted Itsuka along with a blond-haired fellow who passed by him.
Kinsei hadn't been walking around for no reason.
Ever since the duo had begun walking around the city, Kinsei had been feeling multiple pairs of eyes boring into his skull and was leading Itsuka around in a strange pattern in an attempt to lose them.
"Though it would seem that was pointless," He muttered to himself as the corner of his eyes noticed a head of artificially coloured hair.
Of course, halfway through, Kinsei had begun walking to a more deserted place in preparation for the prospect of a fight brewing.
Kinsei smiled as more and more colourful heads began popping out of the dark and finally revealed themselves to the wide-eyed duo.
"What the hell do you think you're doing here, Ogawa!?" A leather-dressed girl with bleached hair questioned with an angered look as Kinsei contemplated why these barbarians were following him.
"I thought we killed this arrogant bastard!"
Those words struck a cord in Kinsei and his gaze went empty as he finally realized just who these guys were.
He didn't just realize who these guys were... He remembered.
A clear memory flashed to the front of his mind as he became overcome with a foreign sense of rage that consumed his vision with a layer of bloody red.
Kinsei wasn't angry...
Right now, he was overjoyed.