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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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[▪︎13th November 1992▪︎]

[ ▪︎Unknown Facility ▪︎]

It's been ten years since I was reborn into this world since my birthday was two days ago.

I can confidently say I won the lottery in this world. I don't know who my parents are but I thank them for my genes.

I'm way more handsome now like If I was an eight back in my home reality, then I'm a nine-point five here and I'm not being narcissistic.

Since I have an OCA-1A phenotype, I have pure white skin and hair with ruby-colored eyes that glow when I use my ability. I had a heart-shaped face with thick white curly hair, a small nose, and ears with pink lips.

My physical characteristics alone can make me a child model and I'm sure when I reach my peak, I will be more handsome.

Now, let's go back to what happened in the previous years.

Since I wanted attention, anytime I was taken out of my incubator I forced myself to walk. After about two days of continuous try and error, I succeeded and walked at the age of six months.

When I was nine months old, I spoke my first word which was 'Doctor'. I wanted to say 'Dada' or 'Mama' but It sounded too weird for me since I had neither here so when Doctor Vogelbaum came to check up on my brain activity, I said the word.

This action of mine succeeded in fully getting the man's attention. I still remember how wide his eyes stretched when I said it, it was very comical. Because of this, my position as a genius was cemented and thus they started my training earlier than they initially planned.

The other doctors in the facility started teaching me the English alphabet when I was about to turn two. I didn't want to waste time learning this so I showed them I've mastered it after a week. The Doctors were surprised and started teaching me how to read.

It was at this point I realized I have an Eidetic memory. I could perfectly recollect every single thing I read, from the punctuation to the paragraphs.

By the time I turned seven, I was done with the high school syllabus and was learning college-level things like Psychology, Computer, Electronic Engineering, Medicine, etc since they weren't my specialty and I've always been interested in them.

They started training my abilities ever since I turned three. Hence, my schedule was filled with eating, sleeping, learning, and training.

As I initially assumed, Psychokinesis was my primary power. You might be wondering why I said Psychokinesis instead of Telekinesis and that's because my power originates from my brain.

Telekinesis doesn't really have a source, unlike [Psychokinesis] which comes from the mind, [Telekinesis] can originate from different sources. When someone strains his/her Telekinetic ability, what he might experience will be fatigue, but someone with [Psychokinesis] can experience migraines or suffer mental pain.

The training takes place in a room designed like 'interrogation rooms', it was bigger and had multiple sets of spherical weights that I was going to use.

I instinctively knew the number of people who were always watching me from the other side of the glass and I made Doctor Vogelbaum aware of that. It was the second ability I've showcased now and it was part of the things I was training, I called it [Extrasensory Perception].

I started with raising a hundred kilograms of mass, I could levitate it effortlessly but my limit at that time was a hundred and fifty kilograms. I remember when they made me try to lift it and when I couldn't, they made me continue till I started bleeding from my ears and eyes.

They didn't stop me even though everything showed I was in immense pain, but they continued taking their notes and watched till I managed to lift it two inches off the ground and collapsed.

I woke up two days later feeling stronger than ever and this was made evident during the next test in which I could lift up the hundred and fifty-kilogram object with ease.

When they realized this, I went through this torturous process for eight good years.

Logically this helped me as now I can lift a ton without even trying but as a creature that has emotions, a part of me hated the doctors and Vogelbaum but I buried that feeling away since I didn't base my decisions on my emotions.

Oh, I forgot to mention that when I turned eight I got another ability, I got [Telepathy]. I realized this when I was having an intellectual conversation with Doctor Vogelbaum and I heard him saying ' He never ceases to amaze me' when that's not what came out of his mouth.

I asked him a series of questions which made me conclude that I have [Telepathy] since I could hear his answers before he said them.

I haven't told anyone about this as among the abilities I've gotten as of now, it was the most dangerous and the one with the most potential. It was going to be my secret weapon.

I could only read surface thoughts when I got it and it was worrying me as I could hear the thoughts of anyone ten meters away. There were a lot of situations where I nearly revealed it since I couldn't control it.

It was during this time that I realized how fucked up humans could be, I could hear all their disgusting thoughts and it wasn't pleasant I'll tell you that.

With time and effort, I was able to fully control it. And now, I can dive into the minds of anyone five meters around me in minutes.

Right now my brain is able to parallel process giving me the opportunity to extract information from someone's brain while we are having real-time conversations.

It's because of this that I found out that John was the equivalent of Superman in this world. He had all his abilities except his solar radiation absorption and his cold breath.

He is continuously being brainwashed into being a patriotic and religious person. From what I've seen in Vogelbaum's memories he is gradually developing a minor God complex.

They've been brainwashing me into being fiercely loyal to the company, and it's very intense. Telling me things like 'Vought comes first', 'Science is key', 'Vought is what will advance humanity to the next level, etc.

I've been playing along and making them believe they have been succeeding since I needed them to believe they are in control.

I need to see John to know how fucked up he is at the moment because the only serious thing I've seen from the doctor's memories was him bisecting someone using his heat vision when he was a baby.

We are both in the same facility but in different sections. We will eventually meet as I've seen some plans in Vogelbaums mind.

And that brings us to this exact moment. I was currently sitting in front of a white table that has a caged dog on top of it surrounded by scientists/researchers with some important executives on the other side of the glass.

I already knew what they wanted me to do by having a quick check on their minds but I behaved as if I didn't know what was going to happen.

"Virgil, we want you to try to influence the internal structure of this dog here."

Doctor Vogelbaum said calmly with a smile.

"Oh I see, you want to determine if I can extend my [Psychokinesis] into the internal structure of organisms with the aid of my [Extrasensory Perception] is that correct?"

I asked with a stoic expression on my face.

"Haha, you are correct as always. We basically want to see how far you can go if you combine your two abilities."

He answered with a smile on his face. He treats me as a son most of the time and I made him believe I think the same of him, so our conversations are relaxed.

I nodded when he answered and focused on the dog that was growling at me.

I have trained my second ability to a point that I can sense everything around me within a five-meter range, giving me a three hundred and sixty degrees sensory Perception with no blindspot.

If I close my eyes and concentrate enough I can extend my senses into the insides of an organism, giving me a black and white view of the circulatory pathways and the internal organs.

I could see the dog's organs and internal pathways and focused on its beating heart.

I placed all my focus on that and imagined it being stretched.

<Whimpering sounds>

It wasn't easy so after ten minutes, the dog started whimpering in pain. After two more minutes, the heart stretched beyond its elastic limit and burst.

The dog immediately fell down, with blood pouring out of its orifices making the desk bloody.

"Remarkable"

One of the researchers muttered with wide eyes. The rest of them also had the same expression apart from Vogelbaum, he knew I will be able to do it.

I didn't even sweat but the time it took was too much and the target was stationary so I can't apply this in a fight. I need to train this more as with this technique, I could instantly kill weaker opponents.

Cleaners came into the room to clean the mess as I was escorted out of the room and was sent towards my room.

It was a small white room with a big bed, wardrobes, a desk, bookshelves that contained big books, and a television.

I sat on my bed and thought of several different ways I can improve my abilities which would've been impossible if I didn't possess [Parallel Processing].

After making adjustments to my training routine, I took a book titled 'Master Programing' and started learning oblivious of the plans being made by those who came to watch me.