The Gene Lock

Vanessa was tired from all that happened today and was super hungry due to the symbiosis being undone and then again done.

I was also feeling hungry as I remembered I had not eaten for 2 days, I didn't need to eat to be alive but I am a foodie and I was thankful that the change in physique didn't cause the feeling of being hungry to disappear.

I was under a lot of restrictions due to my weak and ill body and was not allowed to eat fast food. Have you ever thought about a man who didn't eat any pizza or burger in his entire life?

I asked Van to help me buy some groceries while I clean our apartment. I said that I will cook for her, and she was happy and sad as she didn't like cooked food since her symbiosis with Scream.

She didn't want to sadden my mood and went out but not before teasing me.

She said, "Do you know how to cook Wade, last time your food tasted worse than your sperm?".

"So why don't you have my sperm for your dinner and I would eat....", she didn't let me complete my sentence and barged out of the house.

I shook my head and smiled and thought about what were the skills that I found after the slight absorption of the symbiote.

The symbiotes transfer knowledge from one generation to another through a process called Genesis.

This process stores information in their genes and was automatically transferred from parent to child.

This means that they didn't need to learn gene manipulation but already had the experience to do so.

Genesis was the reason I got their knowledge of genetic engineering but was not as proficient as the symbiotes. I need to improve through practice.

The second thing I got was a body just like symbiotes, I could increase and decrease the density of my body if trained properly I could use it during fights. The weaknesses of symbiotes were sonic knives, fire, and high-frequency sound were deleted by my physique or could be said to be nullified as I heal myself quickly and do not have pain receptors.

The third and most exciting was that I discovered that the symbiote's evolution was locked and required a very high genetic engineering to unlock it. This answered one of my doubts as to why symbiotes didn't have their weaknesses removed as they evolved a lot.

The word evolve was a misconception or could be said that symbiotes were manipulated into believing that they evolved rather they only unlocked different levels of the same evolution stage and were not evolving.

This confirms why they behave like savages despite having tremendous knowledge. They could be considered similar to primitive man when compared to humans in terms of mental evolution.

I imagined what the Slimy Dildo will evolve into when I would unlock its gene lock.

I cleaned all the garbage and used my skill Technomancy to fix broken tables and holes in the wall. This was the first time that I used that skill after my reincarnation.

I also created two multiple hands and elongated them to reach different parts of the apartment to clean and repair.

It gives a detailed molecular structure using analysis.

My skill Analysis has also evolved after receiving Gene manipulation. I could now scan the living body, earlier I was only able to scan dead bodies, and none of the living things.

The supermarket was at 15 minutes by walk from our apartment, by the time I completed my cleaning, repairing, and bathing, Van arrived at the door.

I opened the gate, she was surprised by the perfect condition of our house. I had already told her that I could repair things and upgrade them during our little backstory session.

I asked her to take a bath while I prepare breakfast. She was smart and could see the changes in the personality of her boyfriend. He was very caring before but now it was on a completely different level. This was the level known as "Sweet Love" that was giving her diabetes but she was happy nonetheless.

I started sorting the vegetables and could instantly discern different defects and chemicals in the vegetables, which made me frown.

The muscle memory was instinctively treating them as trash but it suppressed it.

"Ignorance is bliss.", such wise words, and this perfectly fits the scenario. Imagine seeing lactobacillus while drinking milk or eating any milk-related products. I wouldn't even drink the milk despite knowing that it was a good bacteria beneficial for our digestive system.

I washed the vegetables thoroughly while making plans to buy a farm. I switched off my Analysis and sprouted multiple arms to make several dishes knowing the hunger of the symbiote's host from movies.

By the time Van came out of her bath, I already was done with the cooking, the fast cooking was thanks to technomancy, used for heat management by controlling molecules, and my extended arms.

She was surprised by the number of dishes that I cooked but was more surprised to feel her appetite growing just from the smell.

I pulled a chair and made her gesture like a gentleman. I already turned off the light and decorated the table with candles to give it a feeling of date with a candlelight dinner.

I abandoned her and made her cry, although this date would not make her suffering invalidated, it would mark the beginning of the adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Deadpool and can also serve as an apology to make her worried and desperate.

That evening we had our date, we enjoyed ourselves and laughed a lot, I made several jokes about her, only to be punched mercilessly.

This was the first time I was happy in both of my lives and seeing Van's smiling face was a bonus.

She also was satisfied with the food after a very long time, mainly due to two reasons, first, her boyfriend returned whom she thought had lost all hopes of finding, and second, the food was delicious, more delicious than the human heads.