After Peter entered his house and closed the door, he started talking into the air.
"Uzume, why are you hiding? I'm not angry at you for not telling me such an important thing."
Peter's answer came from inside his head
"For some reason, your tone denies what you say. Besides, even if I had told you that becoming attuned to dark energy would be painful, you would not have refused the procedure."
"At least I wouldn't have gone into the bathroom and spilled blood everywhere."
As Peter stared at the pool of blood in the middle of his living room, he began to think about what decision it would make to move to a new house.
"See this as an opportunity to familiarize yourself with your ability to purify."
When Peter heard Uzume's words, he remembered that he had special abilities and opened his profile tab.
--- profile ---
Name: Peter
Level: 39
Health: 398/450
Dark energy: 84/84
Power: 45
Speed: 45
Durability: 45
Assignable stat points: 14
Chance: 0
Charisma: 96
Store score: 1609
Experience Points: 60/200
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Active abilities
- purification (0 lvl)
Passive abilities
- imitation ( lvl Max )
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"Are the unassigned stat points what I thought they were?"
"Yes, you can use them to improve any attribute you want. Of course, I don't think it will increase anything other than your power stats, but.... What did you just do?"
Uzume saw Peter add all his stat points to his speed stat without hesitation.
"Why did you do such a thing?"
"I can't wait to get strong enough to take on bullets. I have to be faster than a bullet."
"Oh, can you stop thinking only about the real world? How will you be stronger in other worlds if you continue to act thoughtlessly like this?"
"Trust me, Uzume."
" U..u.mh "
Uzume sat on the arm of the armchair, holding her flushed cheeks, and thought about how confident Peter looked just now.
"Perhaps Peter is more promising than I thought."
"Did you say something?"
"Hahaha, I didn't say anything"
"Okay, how will I use my ability?"
Uzume looked at Peter, who was crouching in front of the pool of blood, and began explaining the ability.
"Purification ability is a skill that has a high development potential and requires great effort to develop. Since your Purification skill is level 0, there is only a distance of 50 centimeters from your right hand that you can cover at a time when using this skill. Before using the skill, bring your right hand close enough to the target and focus on your ability and say the name of your skill."
Following Uzume's instructions, Peter extended his right hand to the bloodbath and began to focus. Once Peter started focusing, Uzume didn't need to explain further. Peter felt the dark energy in his body flowing into his right hand, realizing that if he increased the amount of dark energy flowing, the range of the ability would increase.
After Peter filled the invisible walls, which were the limits of his ability, with dark energy, a circular gap appeared in the middle of the bloodbath. Peter saw that even the shag carpet in the area where the circular gap was located, which had turned yellow over time, had turned white again.
When Uzume saw Peter suddenly froze, she approached and looked at what was happening.
"Was that carpet always white? How dirty is this place?"
When Peter saw the pure white carpet, he remembered how excited he was when he bought this carpet 6 years ago. Since he was still a child at that time, he could be happy with little things.
Peter extended his right hand and began to repeat the same process, but this time he could not fill the invisible boundaries surrounding his hand with his dark energy because there was not enough dark energy left in his body.
When Peter used the ability again, an area slightly smaller than before was cleared
"How do I recharge my dark energy?"
"If you wait, it will regenerate itself, but if you consume an item you received as a recruit reward, such as beans, it will regenerate immediately."
"How long do I have to wait?"
"If you are in this world, you have to wait 1 second for each dark energy, but if you go to another world and your dark energy has changed, it will heal at the same speed as people who are considered geniuses in that world. What do you think, isn't dark energy cool?"
"So after waiting 84 seconds I can use it again"
"You didn't answer my question, isn't it cool?"
" 84,83,82,81,80,79..."
" Seriously "
" 75,74,73,72,71,70.."
For the rest of the day, Uzume watched with open mouth as Peter paced his room, using purification on each spot, then counting down from 84.
A few hours later, looking at his room where every corner was shining, Peter was satisfied, grabbed a beer and sat in front of the television.
Uzume desperately kept up with Peter, took her place on the sofa and started watching the movie on TV, the ending of which she already knew. Even though the movie didn't have any excitement for Uzume, she leaned on Peter's hand and found a comfortable position between Peter's fingers and enjoyed the calmness of the environment.
When the movie ended, as Peter lay down on his bed to sleep, he asked Uzume, who was lying on his chest, to tell him what she knew about his other ability.
"Do you still remember that girl named Akane Kurokawa?"
" Yes "
"This talent is actually an innate talent that that girl has."
"Are you talking about her imitation of Ai Hoshino in my memories?"
"Yes, but your ability is more systematic than his. For example, if you continue to watch a man practicing a special martial art, after a while you can imitate his martial art. Of course, your imitation ability has many weak points."
" What's that "
"The most efficient method for the imitation ability to work fully is to observe a person with your own eyes. Also, you cannot use this ability on people who are stronger than you."
"He doesn't seem like that good of a talent."
"You are a smart person, Peter, I'm sure this talent will shine in your hands."
"Anyway, I'm going to sleep"
"Don't forget to go and buy me a banana when you wake up tomorrow. I miss that thing already. It's yellow, sweet, sugary, runny, melts in your mouth, ahhh I'm craving it already."
*Snoring sound*
Tchh
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Peter woke up with the engine noise of the old truck passing by the house, got out of bed and went out without even washing his face.
After passing a few side streets, Peter arrived at what looked like a highway. There was a large wholesale market on the other side of the highway
When Peter woke up in the morning, he realized that he had not eaten for a long time, and on a whim, he decided to go to the nearby supermarket to do some kitchen shopping.
While Peter was untying the body of a kitten that was hanging by its throat over the supermarket sign, he passed the supermarket employee who was swearing and entered the supermarket.
"Why do these fucking brats always choose this market to torture kittens?"
A middle-aged female employee working in a supermarket took the cigarette out of her mouth and scolded the boy on the stairs
"Hoy damn brat, don't stop swearing. This is a respectable supermarket. If our first class customers are disturbed, I will break both your legs."
"The fact that you keep swearing at me proves that you're okay with this."
"Oh, do you think you're smarter than me, little mouse? Get that damn cat out of there and I'll show you how smart I am."
The young man, who had climbed the stairs, was about to answer the other employee again when he saw a customer coming into the shop.
"Stupid woman, take care of the customer"
Even though this market is a supermarket that covers a huge area and has a wide variety of products, almost no customers come here during the day. Even though Peter knew that people stayed away from here, this was the first time he saw with his own eyes why no customers were coming.
"A tomato costs 28 dollars. It's expensive."
"Peter, you need to eat properly, even if it's really expensive. You lost a lot of blood yesterday. If you just keep drinking beer, your stamina stat won't be able to hide the side effects of your anemia."
"So that's it"
The female employee who had been following Peter for a while heard Peter muttering something and quickly stepped forward and showed an ugly smile that she thought was professional.
"Did you call me, sir?"
"No, I'm talking to myself"
"I understand. If you need anything, just call me."
When the woman saw Peter continuing to shop, she turned around and went to the other employee.
"Did you see that handsome guy from earlier? He is our first customer."
"Oh, didn't I run away when I saw the prices?"
"No. Actually, he didn't even care. When I looked at the calmness in his eyes, I felt my heart beating like when I was young."
*smack*
"Do I need to remind you that you are my whore?"
While the woman held the counter with one hand to prevent herself from falling to the ground and caressed her sore hip with the other hand, she looked angrily at the young man who could barely be considered handsome.
"What are you doing, stupid? What will you do if my husband is watching from the camera?"
"I'm going to beat your husband, tie him to a chair, and then I'm going to fuck you in front of that son of a bitch."
"Enough nonsense. The customer is coming, go and collect the payment. Then come to the warehouse, you still have two watermelons to lift."
The young man looked contemptuously at the woman staggering erotically as she ran towards the warehouse, then walked to the cash register
"If your damn pervert husband didn't pay me so much, I wouldn't even lay a hand on an ugly old woman like you. It's obvious why your stupid husband likes to watch me humiliate you."
Erin, who was unaware of everything that was going on, placed the items in the filled shopping cart in front of the cashier and secretly exchanged the amount of money he calculated from the system store.
"The total you have to pay is 2476 dollars, sir."
As Peter was about to take the stack of $2,500 bills out of his pocket, he heard the cashier continue talking.
"If you are a member of a gang, you may get some discount depending on the gang you are a member of."
While Peter was thinking that the gang he left a long time ago would come in handy again, he said the name of his gang.
"Even a baby would know that the left arm of the Skull Gang members is covered with tattoos, sir. Please don't make fun of me."
When Peter heard the man's words, he thought he was already wearing a T-shirt, so he looked at his left arm and saw that the tattoo he had been carrying for 8 years was not there.
When the cashier saw that Peter was not speaking, he took the full price from the money Peter handed him and handed Peter a few dollars' worth of change again.
As Peter left the store in surprise, he asked Uzume what happened to her tattoos.
"I remember just yesterday your tattoos were still there"
" Me too "
"Maybe you accidentally included yourself in the range while using your purification ability."
"Does it have such an effect?"
"Of course there is. You should have paid attention to this. Anyway, you are more handsome like this."
Peter decided that Uzume was right as she gave him a thumbs up while flying in front of him and stopped caring about it.
Peter went home and threw away the beer in the fridge, then filled it with freshly bought food and greens.
"Uzume, do you know how to cook?"
"Actually, I know a little bit, but I can't use the ingredients you have for the recipes I have. If we visit the neighbor across the street and look at a few recipes on the internet, I will teach you how to cook."
" Good idea "
Since Peter did not want to endure hunger any longer, he took action quickly and opened the door of his house. When Peter opened the door, he saw his neighbor girl waiting in front of his door.
" H h hi, I was just about to tell you that my grandfather called you. Ahaha "
"Can I use your computer?"
"Will it take long?"
"I will look at the recipe"
"You can look at it after you go to my grandfather's, but don't dirty anything. Also, change your clothes before you go to my grandfather's, you smell of beer."
Peter said the deal was done and went back into his house. After throwing the clothes he was wearing in a corner to be cleaned later, he put on the clothes he had cleaned and put in the closet.
Before Peter left the house, he came back and put Uzume, who was unconscious with blood flowing from her nose, in his pocket, standing on the mirror where she had just changed her clothes.