“Eradicate defects and impurities from the genetic level…”
From a biological perspective, aren’t ordinary or flawed looks in humans precisely due to genetic defects and variations?!
If using this could achieve a state of human genetic perfection…
Wouldn’t that be equivalent to an all-around boost in appearance?!
At the thought of this, Minoru couldn’t help teasing in his mind:
“Yo, System.
Didn’t you say earlier that you definitely wouldn’t provide vanity items to alter looks?
What’s the deal with this Gene Optimization Liquid?”
Faced with Minoru’s teasing, the system went silent for two seconds.
Afterwards, its cold electronic voice seemed to reveal a imperceptible trace of stiffness:
[The core function of this item is to increase muscle fiber density, neural reaction speed, and bone toughness.]
[As for changes in appearance and the boost in looks, they are merely side products of the genetic optimization process.]
[Host, please do not put the cart before the horse.]
“I get what you mean.”
Minoru couldn’t help letting out a laugh.
This system was actually a tsundere!
Saying no with its mouth, yet honestly stuffing good items into the Premium Draw pool with its body.
Minoru cut the chatter.
With a thought, an exquisite glass test tube containing icy-blue liquid appeared in his hand.
Uncorking it, Minoru threw his head back and drank the Gene Optimization Liquid in the test tube in one gulp.
The liquid didn’t taste strange; instead, it carried a faint, refreshing mint fragrance.
The moment it went down his throat, Minoru felt a warm current rapidly spread along his esophagus into his four limbs and bones.
Like soaking in a hot spring, it gently comforted every single cell in his body.
“Phew…
feels so good…”
Accompanied by this comfortable sensation, a surge of intense drowsiness rushed over him like a tide.
Minoru’s eyelids grew heavy, and he unexpectedly fell fast asleep right there on the sofa.
…
Early the next morning.
When Minoru opened his eyes again, it was already seven in the morning.
He sat up from the sofa and stretched with force.
*Crack, crackle, pop…*
Accompanied by a series of crisp bone pops like popping beans, Minoru only felt his entire body filled with an unprecedented sense of lightness and power.
He walked briskly to the mirror in the bathroom.
The person in the mirror, at first glance, was still that “Minoru Kuroe.”
However, looking closely, one would notice that his skin had become slightly better, not as rough as before.
Other than that, the contours of his facial features hadn’t changed much.
After all, the description stated that the optimization process would continue for a week.
This gradual change was just right to avoid feeling jarring, allowing the people around him to accept his transformation through subtle influence over time.
Finishing his morning routine and changing into the Sobu High uniform, Minoru stepped out refreshed.
After arriving at school, Minoru put on his Disciplinary Committee armband and conducted his morning campus patrol as usual.
Very good, everything was as usual, no alarms triggered.
Just as he was preparing to wrap up his morning patrol and return to the classroom to prepare for class—
*Beep—!*
Inside his mind, the system alarm suddenly blared frantically!
[Warning!
Warning!]
[Detected an extremely dangerous non-human evil lifeform approaching!]
[Target Type: Worm — Pupa Form!]
[Target Location: Abandoned woodland behind the school gymnasium!]
[Victim: Yukino Yukinoshita!]
[Host, please proceed immediately to stop evil!
Protect the innocent girl’s life and safety!]
“Worm?!”
Minoru’s pupils shrank violently, his expression instantly turning utterly grave.
Worms were monsters belonging to Kamen Rider Kabuto.
Not only were they brutal by nature, but they would also murder humans and mimic the victim’s appearance, even copying the victim’s memories!
What was even more terrifying was that once a Pupa Worm molted and evolved into an Imago Form, it would master “Clock Up,” which was super acceleration.
Then it would slaughter in super high speed that couldn’t be captured by the human eye!
From a danger perspective, it was even trickier than Orphnochs!
“I must never let it molt!”
Gritting his teeth, Minoru instantly reversed direction, turning into a residual shadow as he bolted toward the woodland behind the gymnasium at breakneck speed.
…
At the same time, in the abandoned woodland behind the gymnasium.
Seldom did students set foot here usually; overgrown with weeds, it appeared extraordinarily quiet.
However, an extraordinarily beautiful girl with waterfall-like long black hair and a cool, elegant aura was crouching in front of a patch of bushes.
In her hand was a small bag of cat food, carefully pouring it into a small plastic bowl.
“Meow~”
A stray orange cat squirmed out from the bushes, affectionately rubbing against the back of Yukino’s hand before lowering its head to eat.
Looking at the cute way the kitten ate, a rare gentle smile surfaced on Yukino’s delicate face, which was usually cold as frost.
Like ice and snow melting for the first time, it was breathtakingly beautiful. The source of this chapter is novelping.com.
*Tread, tread, tread…*
Right at this moment, a somewhat heavy and stiff set of footsteps came from the entrance of the woodland.
The smile on Yukino’s face instantly vanished, restoring her usual cool indifference.
She stood up, turning her head to look.
Only to see a student wearing the male Sobu High uniform, walking toward her step by step with his head lowered.
Yukino’s brows knitted slightly.
Saying nothing, she calmly withdrew her gaze.
This was a public area; she couldn’t very well tell someone not to come over, right?
Moreover, she wasn’t that type of person to begin with.
However, just as that male student walked to a distance less than five meters from Yukino—
“MEOW-ROW—!”
The orange cat that had been eating cat food obediently suddenly hissed all over with its fur standing on end, as if it sensed some extremely horrifying aura.
In the end, it couldn’t even care about its favorite cat food, bolting straight into the depths of the bushes and vanishing without a trace.
Seeing this scene, Yukino was somewhat shocked.
This was an orange cat?!
Virtually the greediest kind among cats.
Yet now it actually abandoned food to run away?
Feeling somewhat suspicious, Yukino turned back and glanced at that male student.
He couldn’t be a cat abuser, could he?
Yukino couldn’t help thinking.
As it turned out, that single glance was no small matter.
She saw the male student’s steps come to a stop, his body beginning to twist and twitch at a bizarre angle.
*Crack, crack, crack…*
Then, accompanied by the spine-chilling sound of bones shattering, the skin and school uniform on the male student were actually torn open like a layer of fragile paper!
Green fluid splashed about, and a monster covered in green tumors, resembling the larva of some giant insect, tore open the human outer skin and appeared before Yukino!
“!!!”
Even for Yukino Yukinoshita, who was usually as cool as ice, facing this horrifying scene made her pupils shrink sharply, her brain going blank for a moment.
“Hiss-hiss—!”
The Worm let out a piercing screech, waving its thick, sharp claws as it pounced violently toward Yukino!
Subconsciously, Yukino wanted to step back, but because she had been crouching for too long, her legs were slightly numb, causing her to accidentally fall and sit on the grass.
Suddenly, a strange sound echoed in the woods not far away.
This sound wasn’t loud, but in these quiet woods, it sounded especially jarring, instantly drawing the Worm’s attack, causing even its striking movement to come to a halt.
First were three “beep-beep” sounds like cell phone buttons.
Right after, after an electronic voice issued a “Standing By!”, a intense electronic pulse sound echoed in all directions.
“Complete!”
*BANG—!*