Saiki was an unwanted son of a rich family.
In fact, it was quite hard for him to know that no matter what he did, how good he was at school or how much he put effort into something, he would never get the recognition and love of his parents.
He considers himself a persistent fool. For 16 years he tried his best to get even a little bit of the love and recognition of his parents. However, it never happened.
The only reason he kept trying so hard was because of his maternal figure, the governess who always took care of him, Miuki.
All the love he didn't get from his parents, she provided. That's why he didn't feel so alone. However, everything changed when Miuki and her 5-year-old little daughter were run over by a motorcycle that was going over 300 kilometers per hour.
Saiki didn't even have anyone to blame, since the guy on the motorcycle also died.
Since then, it became unbearable to live in that mansion with the parents who didn't care if he lived or died.
Since then, Saiki became more depressed. Perhaps noticing that, but not out of pity, but because they didn't want to deal with it. His biological mother offered him a proposal to go live alone in an apartment near the school. She didn't even try to disguise it, saying something like it was better for him or anything like that. She simply said that it was unbearable to see him every day, saying that she would give him an allowance and pay all his tuition if he accepted.
Did he accept? Obviously yes. After 16 years of trying, he gave up on getting any affection from her or his father. That's why he started living alone in a 3-room apartment near the school.
Living alone wasn't easy. Especially because he stopped caring about many things and stopped taking care of himself. One of the most significant changes was the weight gain. Since he started living alone, he started eating a lot of processed food. Many times he just made instant noodles and ate them.
Because of that, he gained a lot of weight, doubling his weight in one year and almost tripling in two.
Until then, he had no intention of changing. He saw no reasons for that, until something changed without him really asking for it.
[<The Gamer>]
[Lv.1 Saiki Kurogane]
In the bathroom, in the reflection of the mirror, besides his fat face, he saw information that seemed to come directly from a game.
'It's really real...'
What happened the day before was the cause of the change.
A case that was almost funny, but that in truth, had no humor at all for him.
Yesterday, Saiki choked on instant noodles. It was ridiculous, it even came out through his nose. It was also when something strange happened. If souls exist, what happened to him was something similar. In a white space, he appeared in a semitransparent form. There, he wasn't alone.
There was another "Soul" there. It was of a foreign man in his 40s, also very fat.
Before Saiki could react, this man approached him and tried to assimilate him by strangling him.
He saw himself being pulled by that being.
It was a repulsive and scary sensation!
'I don't want to die!'
Something inside Saiki awakened. It was a very strong desire to live.
'You want to devour me? I'm the one who's going to devour you!'
In desperation, he opened his mouth and bit that being.
It was a strange sensation, like biting something rotten and slimy, but he had no choice.
He saw at the exact moment that that man showed surprise, even fear.
Even so, Saiki never stopped.
When he 'ate' the first piece, the assimilation reversed.
Saiki's will far surpassed that of the other being.
Then...
Saiki won. Completely assimilating the soul of the man named Will Griffin of 40 years of age.
After that, he woke up coughing a lot because of the instant noodles that almost killed him, feeling a little guilty about what happened to the man. However, that guilt didn't last long, since that man named Will wanted to kill him by assimilating him and possessing his body.
It doesn't matter if he was living a shitty life, it was still his life. That doesn't give the right to another person to try to take over in his place.
After vomiting "rainbow", Saiki noticed something that made him doubt his own vision. At first he thought he was delirious for post-traumatic reasons. But it wasn't delirium.
After the incident with the man named Will trying to steal his body, assimilating him, Saiki started to see the world as in a game.
It was as if he was using modern VR glasses that gave the real names to the items.
When he observed something in detail, even a skill was created called "Observe", thus giving more detail to the items if he so desired.
If all that was a dream, it was too real to be a lie.
The pain in particular was what made him believe that it was real.
Then, came the memories – memories of the man who one day was called Will Griffin.
This forty-year-old man led a completely reclusive life. He made money by making podcast clips and spent most of his time watching animes, drinking, smoking and... masturbating. A lot.
Sincerely? It was disgusting to inherit those memories, especially the ones where Will was in his intimate moment.
'If it were the opposite, would it be him inheriting my memories?'
Saiki felt a very strong shiver and... Vomited again.
The scariest part was that he started to imagine himself going down the same path as Will.
'If I continued living this way... Would I, at forty years old, become like him?'
No!
He didn't even want to imagine such a scenario.
Although he had gained weight, he wasn't a recluse. He still went to class and had some close friends.
'No, that's not enough. I want to change... I will change!'
Despite everything, he couldn't do much that day. It was already late at night and he was tired and very sleepy. Although he didn't feel that it would be easy to sleep after everything that happened.
...
The next morning.
Saiki woke up half groggy.
[Sleep recovered all his MP and HP]
'It wasn't a dream...'
Yesterday was a crazy day. He even almost died...
Shuddering, not from cold, but from something else, Saiki got up from the bed.
"Bathroom..." He murmured in a sleepy tone.
...
After washing his hands and the rest, also brushing his teeth, Saiki looks at his reflection in the mirror, thinking: 'Today I will start doing some basic exercises that I saw on the internet... This will be the beginning of my transformation.'
That day was Sunday. He didn't need to worry about going to school.
In the living room, he approached the cleanest wall, free of furniture.
The first exercise he was going to do is called: Wall push-up.
'I was going to start with 3 sets of 15...'
Because of his weight mainly, it would be hard to do normal push-ups. That's why he chose to try this one he saw on the internet.
"Fifteen..."
The first set was easy. Soon he started the second, but this time it was more strenuous.
'Water...'
Taking a break, he grabbed a glass of water and drank it all in one gulp.
'Ahh, I feel much better!'
Putting the glass in the sink, he returns to the living room. Placing his hands on the wall, he starts the last set. But this time, he intended to do the maximum he could endure before giving up.
The first ten were easy. When he reached fifteen, his arms started to throb. Even so, he continued, until he reached 25 and his arms hurt a lot.
When he was about to stop, something happened.
[Thank you for your diligence with physical exercise, your (Strength) has increased by +1]
[A new Skill was created due to a specific action.]
[A Skill for doing push-ups, [Wall Push-up], was created.]
[Wall Push-up (Active) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Creates a Wall Push-up command to perform in auto-pilot mode.]
[10% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
[A new Skill was created due to a specific action.]
[A Skill for training the Physical Body, [Physical Training Mastery], was created.]
[Physical Training Mastery (Passive) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Increases the attributes (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity) by 20% whenever you do physical training.]
[5% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
"This... This changes everything!" Saiki let out a surprised sigh.
And what happens once can happen a second time.
'Let's move on to the next exercise...'
Grabbing a chair, he placed it in an empty space in the room.
What he intended to do was simple. Sit down and stand up from the chair without using his hands. On the internet this was called: Sit-to-Stand.
First he rested for a few minutes using the chair. Only when he had completely recovered his breath did he begin doing two sets of 15. When he finished, he drank two glasses of water and started the third set.
'41....'
Upon reaching 42, about to speak out loud, something happened.
[Thank you for your diligence with physical exercise, your (Strength) has increased by +1]
[A new Skill was created due to a specific action.]
[A Skill for doing chair squats, [Sit-to-Stand], was created.]
[Sit-to-Stand (Active) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Creates a Sit-to-Stand command to perform in auto-pilot mode.]
[10% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
'It worked!' He celebrated mentally, since physically he was exhausted.
Sitting on the chair, head down, he murmured: "With this... It's confirmed, every action can trigger a skill if done repeatedly..."
A foolish and fleeting thought, at the same time, passed through his head. Involving one hand, sometimes two in an epic battle...
Rid of any vestige of this thought, for the next few hours, he did repetitions of different types of exercises until generating related skills.
[Glute Bridge (Active) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Creates a Glute Bridge command to perform in auto-pilot mode.]
[10% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
[Calf Raise (Active) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Creates a Calf Raise command to perform in auto-pilot mode.]
[10% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
[Lateral Step (Active) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Creates a Lateral Step command to perform in auto-pilot mode.]
[10% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
[Towel Row (Active) Lv.1 EXP: 00.00%]
[Creates a Towel Row command to perform in auto-pilot mode.]
[10% increase in the chance of attribute growth: (Strength), (Vitality) and (Dexterity)]
[Physical Training Mastery has increased.]
When he finished doing the towel row, he was already dripping with sweat.
At this point, he was no longer wearing the same clothes he had started training in initially.
Luckily, he hadn't thrown away the clothes he had as he kept gaining weight. Now, they served their purpose.