“Ooh so warm, zzz zzz”

  There were flames raging all around the area whilst in the middle of it was a teenager soundly sleeping.

  “zzz-*szhh* OW!” A flame flickered towards Omar's right arm, burning him. “Ugh, couldn’t I have slept longer” He stood up rubbing his eyes and looked around. “Wow pretty. Wait…What the hell?” Omar showed a second of confusion than understanding. “Oh yeah, that's what happened” Finally remembering the events he panicked, how long had he slept? How badly damage are his genetics, will he die?

  “Please please please” Omar pulled up missed messages and read them.

  “What the fuck there's so many things!” Omar was shocked, he saw many powerful sounding words but didn’t understand a thing. He clicked on the first thing he was curious about. “Beast king's blood”

  “whoa that’s sounds amazing, beast stance”

  “eh… I think I'll stick to Muay Thai, Claw of the beast king”

  “So that’s what the green ghost like hand, extending from my right hand was” Omar’s eyes twinkled one could tell he liked the skill. “Battle Aura”

  Omar didn’t understand but knew it was good. “Fuck, genetic damage is critical. Where's my SG reward” Omar was angered, had the system lied? Every time he had killed an enemy he gained no SG. The reason he hadn’t gained any SG was because it’s only gained after defeating the ID as on collective reward.

  YOU HAVE ONE WINDOW PENDING!

  “What?” Omar clicked the window.

  Omar was mesmerized, ‘I'M RiCH!’ Omar's frown went upside down. “THE SHOP” He went to the medicine tab and searched for the low-grade genetic medicine. Finding it, he purchased 2. ‘1 for now and the other for the future’ Getting what he needed, he closed THE SHOP. “Alright, time to inject the medicine before I die.” Omar received a prompt saying that ‘the more severe his genetic condition is the longer he will be put to sleep to focus the body on healing the genetics.’ Of course, he still injected the medicine.

  *The next morning*

  Omar was waking up from his 10-hour slumber, only to receive a new window.

  Omar checked his status page to confirm there were no debuffs.

  “Yes!” Omar was happy the medicine worked, and now he was even happier because he had 130 stat points to spend.

  “Done!”

  “WOW!” “Now my Hp is 1300 because there are 20, 5’s in 100!”

  Omar after marveling his stats and new traits went to go pick up loot. Being on right on top of where the hacker died he checked around himself.

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  “Great, more ranged attacks!” Omar grinned before learning both skills. Omar was now searching for the loot of the flame trio, then he saw an orb in the distance and walked towards it.

  “What’s this?” He picked it up and felt it was soft yet firm like a ripe peach. ‘Observe’

  “Whats Mera Mera no mi?” “Says power of fire, that sounds amazing.” Omar ate the orb fruit quickly leaving him with regret. “Goddammit It was delicious I shoulda savored each bite” Omar accidently burst flame out of his hand in his sadness “WHOA!” He repeatedly smacked his hand on the floor to try to get rid of the flame, but he only left small craters in his wake.

  In an attempt to see if the fire was even hurting him he stopped moving, “Oh, this is what it meant” Finally understanding that he could create,manipulate and become fire he played around with his new abilities.

  “This is so awesome!” Omar was flying around with the under half of his body as fire. “Weeeeeee! This is what a rollercoaster must feel like!” Omar tested many things with the knowledge he had of fire. Flying, shooting out fire, making his whole body a flame and many other things. He was scared at first of what would happen if he made his head into fire, he thought he would die because he wouldn’t have a brain anymore. But it seemed like his power breaks all logic like everything else he does.

  Omar left the ID and went back to his room. When he entered he saw a majestic red feathered bird flying around. “What the fuck” He closed the door behind him and walked towards the bird.

  ‘Finally here eh?’

  “What the hell who said that!” Omar looked around but the only conclusion was the bird, but it wasn’t spoken words, they were transmitted to his mind. “Are you the one who just spoke to me” He looked at the now hovering bird.

  ‘Yes, I'm Noim. A Kennabird. Nice to meet you, partner”

  “Im Omar. What do you mean partner?”

  ‘Duh, we're friends now silly~’

  “Alright” As Omar said that, the world froze only leaving Omar and the Kennabird Noim left alone. COMPANION RITUAL WILL NOW COMMENCE PLACE DO YOU BOTH AGREE ON COMPANIONSHIP. A commanding voice that was only heard by the two was quickly replied to with yeses. After that Omar was left with searing pain, “AHHHH” Feeling it on his back he quickly took his shirt off as the world went back to normal.

  ‘Let me see’ ‘Oh my, it looks like a larger version of me shadowed out and the edges look like fiery flames’

  “Now I have an awesome tattoo at least” The pain was gone just as it had arrived leaving Omar looking at the bright side. “Well I need to check the time to see if i'm late for school”

  ‘School? Please explain friend!’

  “It's just a place where the young children of my world go to learn and develop themselves” Omar looked at the time then started scrambling he was late, very late. He had missed the first period and the second was about to start.

  Finished ready himself Omar was about to leave before his new companion spoke.

  ‘Omar I wanna go with you too!’

  “But my school doesn’t allow animals I can’t bring you with me, sorry” Omar shook his head slowly.

  ‘Please please please please please please please please please etc..’

  “OK, stop saying please I’ll take you with me but you have to stay in my bag” Omar opened a lower pocket of his backpack and signaled Noim to enter.

  ‘Thank you!’

  “Yeah yeah let's go”

  Arriving at school in a minute by running full speed, Omar got to class 15 minutes late. “Ok class next topic is-“

  Sliding in through the door as if he was an anime mc Omar quickly bowed saying “Sorry i'm late!” (Darn where’s the piece of bread that should be in his mouth)

  “O-Omar it's fine just be sure to come on time next time, take a seat” Every student in the classrooms mouths were wide open their chins reaching the floor. “What’s wrong?” Omar didn’t understand the other student's expressions and walked to his seat.

  ‘Ha ha ha friend is so great, everyone was mesmerized by you just saying sorry~’

  The equally dense bird spoke in Omar's mind and squirmed in the pocket it was in.

  Just like that the school day ended for Omar, everything was much too easy for him now. The points in intelligence well spent. Noim also learned many things about humans and school.

  “Since we're gonna be companions we should have fun together to deepen our bond also to teach you many things” At Omars words Noim immediately flew out of the pocket and chirped happily.

  ‘Yes! I'm hungry!’

  Noim was flying over Omar in circles happily while Omar was walking to Baskin robbins to get some ice cream.

  “Hello, sir what would you like today?” A man asked Omar who was browsing their menu.

  “What do you think a bird would enjoy?” Omar asked “Excuse me? Ooh, what a beautiful bird you have!” Noim was on Omar's right shoulder. “Hehe, thanks “

  ‘I'm not beautiful! Im cool!’ Noim wasn’t mad but also wasn’t happy, he was a male after all.

  “Yeah, yeah” Omar rolled his eyes, “Excuse me?” The employee replied. “Oh no that was meant for Noim my bird” Omar scratched the back of his head. “Oh no worries, though you shouldn’t “speak” to your pet birds can’t talk so people will think you’re crazy” The employee then started preparing 3 different flavors to sell to Omar.

  ‘You can speak to me through your mind!’

  ‘Oh,’ Omar was thankful he could as it would make things much easier now. ‘Noim this place is called Baskin robbins it’s a really good ice cream place! Ice cream is a sweet treat that I know you will enjoy’

  ‘Yay!’ Noim chirped loudly causing the employee to giggle and add extra scoops of ice cream. “Alright here you go, this will be 16.45” Omar handed over a 20 dollar bill to him. The two happy companions left the store, “Okay let's go sit near that tree over there and you can taste the ice cream”

  ‘Mmm!’ ‘Soo good, wish we had this at %(^Q@$(‘

  After the two enjoyed the ice cream Omar suggested they should go to an amusement park. Omar always wanted to go there when he was younger but it was too expensive. Now that he is “rich” he wanted to go, especially when he had someone to go with. Omar explaining what an amusement park was as they headed to Canada's wonderland.

  *5 Hours later*

  ‘WOW THIS IS SO FUN’ Noim was strapped into the seat in Omar's lap, the people laughed at the cuteness of Noim when they saw him seated in Omar's lap on the ride “skyscraper” “WOOOOOOOO” Omar was shouting at the top of his lungs in joy.

  “Alright let's go home we tried all the rides multiple times now” Omar really enjoyed the amusement park and wanted to come with Noim again in the future.

  ‘Okay let's go i'm pretty tired’

  “Omar was bathing Noim after he took a shower cleaning his glowing red feathers that were softer than silk, Omar kept feeling his feathers till Noim caught on.

  ‘Hehee in my KennaBird culture the softer and vibrant the feathers the more handsome you were!’ Noim nodding his poofy head in pride.

  “Haha, can’t imagine anything softer than this”

  ‘Yeah I got all the pretty women!’ Noim exclaimed raising his chest in triumph

  “Haha your too cute, come on let’s go sleep”

  Hello author-san here sorry about the long wait, Thursday I was a little unmotivated and yesterday my wifi was acting up so I took the time to re-motivate myself re-reading comments on past chapters. I will try to keep my 1 chapter a day pace again if not I guarantee a chapter every other day. Comment your opinions +1 me and review! Thank you for reading!