Chapter 73. Evolution

‘I still have a week before final exams, I can hopefully ask Momo for help with the written portion, so I don’t have to worry about failing that. As long as I do well on the written exam I should be able to make it to the summer camp. But it’s not the exams that worry me. I have to be able to fight in the forest without causing a bushfire. I have to be able to fight in certain parts of the forest if I can't use 2nd Gear or ‘Overdrive’. I may only have ‘Bullet Time’ to help me. To help off-set the drain on my battery I need to increase my natural recharge.’

With those thoughts in my mind I finished my dinner, and went into my room. I sat on my bed and thought about how I would do this. “Ok, so overloading, and keeping the nerves overloaded until they forcefully change is the idea. I think I should start with my left arm.” I am right handed yet shoot with my left, I’m left eye dominant, and right handed. It’s weird but that seemed to transfer with me when I got here.

I slowly put more power into my left arm. 5%, 10%, 15%. Once I hit 20% per minute I could feel something. I looked at my arm, and saw that it was shaking while blood seemed to be boiling out of my pores, and fingernails. The pain was awful, but not as concentrated as my eye. I started wrapping my arm in my sheets and hugged it to try and help with the pain. I put my pillow over my mouth and started to scream in it from the agony. I continued in this hell for longer than my eye took. Probably due to there being more nerves in total. I stopped putting power through my arm after I ran out of charge, and just let the rest of my arm run it's course. Wherever that course was.

After most of the pain went away, and I was left with a dull throbbing in my arm, I slowly unwrapped my arm while noticing most of my charge was gone. I looked at the sheets, and amazingly they didn’t have as much blood as I thought. ‘Well that makes me feel better at using this on my brain and not dying from the extra pressure or something. But the amount that it took to get this to happen. I may need to do this to most of my body before I can actually keep overcharging the nerves in my brain before running out entirely.’

After finishing my thoughts I also took off the last piece of cloth covering my arm. I stared at my arm in shock. My arm had red lines going over it like circuitry or a Lichtenberg figure, touching them felt weird to say the least. It was pliable and under the skin, but almost looked like ruby glass. “It seems like I changed even the nerves that connect to the skin, my whole arm is covered like this. I’m going to have to cover this up. Unfortunately we are wearing our summer uniforms, but I may get away with just bandaging it up like an injury. Putting that aside now, I feel like I have more regeneration, and the maximum.”

‘It is doing good for me… But by the end I’m gonna have red lines throughout my body.’ I put electricity through my arm and it caused the streaks of red to light up and crackle. “It looks like doing this allows electricity to flow through my body easier. I have about 40% left so… 2nd Gear!” I wanted to know what would happen if I was in 2nd Gear like this. Surprisingly nothing much did happen. I was in 2nd Gear but the electricity was only crackling more around my left arm comparatively.

I turned off my 2nd Gear and thought for a bit. ‘Ok how about putting more power just into my arm. Like if I went into ‘Overdrive’.’ I did just that, I put as much power through my arm as it would have been if I was in ‘Overdrive’ with my whole body. Doing this my whole arm seemed to light up from the glowing lines going up and down my arm. The alarming thing was I felt like I could keep going. ‘Well ‘Overdrive’ was the maximum my body could handle before, but with this… I feel like I could easily double the output on the parts that I change. The only problem is my body would look like that permanently. That is going to be impossible to hide when I have to change in a locker room for every class, I’m already pushing it with just my arm.’

With those thoughts going around in my head I decided to rest. I took off the bloodied bedsheet, and just let my problems go away for just a moment.