"We'll see you Monday, Bel. Have a good weekend." Alice told her sister while waving goodbye.

  "You guys have a good weekend, too." She responded eically while waving back as well.

  Wishing her well, gramps drove us to my home and threw his armored tru park before all three of us exited it aered my home.

  "Mom, dad, we're back. Oh, and I brought gramps too." I announced, ing through the entrance.

  "Wele home, sweety, Alice, and dad, what brings you here today?"

  "Do I need a reason to visit my little girl and her husband?"

  "Mm, I suppose not. Well, since you're here, you might as well join us for dinner. We're having barbecue tonight."

  "Ohh, then definitely t me in." The old vet said while dispying a hungry expression and rubbing his hands together.

  While mom was getting the meats ready for dinner, we three headed for the living room a up with my father. Plopping on the couches, the four of us made small talk for the several minutes. We tinued chatting when mom called for the men to man their stations, thus we wasted no time and got busy getting the equipment ready in the backyard. Not long after that, my mother Jane came out with tray after tray of meat. Hungry, we went right to work and threw the various cuts of seasoned meat onto the grill.

  I could get used to this. It's almost like I'm ba my old world with my family.

  Reminisg of my previous life I left behind way too soon, I tinued grilling and handing the meat off as they were finished cooking on the grill. Shortly thereafter, everything was hot ready, so we collectively walked over and sat at the rge outside table and begaing to our hearts' tent. Time passed on from then aually we fihe meal ahe miss maid robot begin ing up.

  The five of us versed about our days and at some point, gramps decided to open up his mouth and help me out with my ride situation. "So, Ja's e to my attention that you're preventing my grandsetting his first vehicle. What's that about?"

  "Well, isn't it a bit early to be letting my son drive around in his own car unsupervised when he's only 11?" Mom tered, ready to battle it out with her dad.

  "Sure, if he was a normal 11-year-old boy. However, since he isn't, that point won't work here. So what's the real reason?"

  "... I just don't want him to be driving around on his own isn't that good enough?"

  "He wants to be, and you 't expect me to be chauffeuring him around all the time. So why don't you give in and allow the kid to do what he wants? It's not like he'll get into any trouble."

  "..."

  "Oh, e on mom it'll make things easier for me and I won't have to invenience gramps every time Alid I o get somewhere that isn't close by." I piled to get her to cave to my request.

  "They have a point, honey. And he's already more than capable of driving around all on his own if he's already manufacturing ons and all sorts of teology." My dad followed up trying to help but not realizing that he just informed my mother about something I didn't wish for her to know of just yet.

  "...Wait a minute, what did you just say he was making???" Mom asked very seriously, fog right onto the on manufacturing bit, no doubt.

  Fuck, of course dad would let the cat out of the bag.

  As the old man and I were staring daggers at my dear ole dad, along with my mother, dad reiterated what he just said while beginning to nervously sweat. "Ahh, ons and teology."

  "ONS, Sweety, when did this start? No, you 't do that. It's too dangerous-"

  Before she could go off and the old man interrupted and stopped her iracks. "Jaop and I'll expin what's been going on."

  "B-but-"

  "Jane." Gramps said, exerting some of that pressure he obtained from his many years expl the wastend.

  With her going mute, the old man looked at me and asked. "So you want to tell them, Dom?"

  Uanding what he was getting at, I answered. "I didn't pn on it, but I suppose since we've arrived at this point, they should be made aware. It is only a matter of time before it es out, after all."

  "Alright, let's head ihen. We 't be having that sort of versation out here, even though the property has plenty of spa between it and the neighb ones."

  Nodding my head in response as both my mom and dad wore looks of fusio up a inside. Returning to the living room, I waited for a sed tanize my thoughts and began. "As I said moments ago, I didn't pn on revealing what I'm about to tell you so soon. But since dad has already let loose about my on manufacturing, I should probably just reveal the rest of the secrets I've been hiding from you mom and dad."

  *Sigh* "Sweety you know you don't have to hide anything from us, right?"

  "Your mother is right son, you tell us whatever it is you've been keeping mum about."

  "Okay, I'll tell you. But don't try to ge my mind because what I'm about to tell you is about what I wish to aplish one day and I'll stop at nothing to achieve it."

  "We would ry to stop you from attempting to achieve your dream, sweety. So go ahead and tell us." Mom enced, whilst dad nodded along in agreement.

  "Alright, but before I do that, I'm going to show you guys a few things first because it will make it easier for you to accept the path I'm going to be pursuing in life."

  With the two's encement, I presented my hand with my palm fag upward and gathered up a number of lightning element mana particles. A split sed ter, lightning appeared and began to daically on my palm, leaving both of my parents stunned.

  "Well, that's new. When did you gain the ability to produce lightning, kid?" Gramps asked curiously.

  "Around two months ago."

  "Hmm..."

  My parents remained in their gobsmacked state for a few more seds before they rejoihe rest of us iy once again.

  "So, is this all you've been hiding from us, son?"

  "Not at all. This is just one of my retly gained abilities and I still have to tell you about my dream."

  "Right..."

  Following that, I started dispying eae of the abilities I possessed from my ability to summon ons and all sorts of items from thin air to my body's incredible strength and durability to my magical ability to sense everything within a certain spherical radius around me.

  "Those aren't all the abilities I possess, but it is enough to dispy my capabilities."

  ...

  "So you're either a marked one or a transdent sweety. I don't see why you o hide that from us."

  Shaking my head, I corrected my mother. "I am her. My abilities cover far te of a range for me to be categorized as either of those. I also don't have a tattoo-like mark on any part of my body."

  "Hmm, that's strange. I wonder why you have those abilities then, if you are her." Dad ented.

  "The reason why I have these powers is due to me being born with a system very simir to ones from role-pying games aain fial titles."

  "I don't think I heard that right. Did you just say a system, like the kind of one a novel protagonist would have?"

  "No, your ears are w just fine, dad. That's exactly what I possess."

  "Well, I suppose that could expin why you have such a wide assortment of abilities, sweety."

  ...

  From there, I went on to answer all the questions they had and the moment they were satisfied; I moved onto the opic at hand that o be discussed. "Okay, now that we've got that all covered, let's tio the subject, that being my dream. So, like anyone else, I have a dream I wish to achieve iure. However, uhers, mine is a hell of a lot more challenging, if not impossible, when pared to others."

  Taking a sed for suspense, I tinued. "What I wish to aplish is to quer the wastend and uhe remnants of humanity under one banner. I know that may seem like something no human is capable of aplishing, but I believe my odds of success are better than any human alive today, given the massive amount of knowledge I've accumuted and my wide array of abilities."

  "I'm not going to say you 't pursue that dream of yours, son, but you realize how i sounds right."

  "I do, but I've been pnning things out for years at this point all to make myself as prepared as possible before I even step foot out of the safety of the uy. So it's much too te to turn baow, not that I would want to."

  *Sigh* "This is a lot to take in, sweety, but if this is what you really want to do with your life, I won't stop you. However, until you leave the for the outside world, I want to see the extent of your preparations. Are you fih that?"

  "That's no problem, mom. We go now if you want."

  "Alright, let's go now then."

  The versation paused there for the sed and we all headed framp's armored truck, hopped in and got on the road.

  This is going far easier than I thought it would have.

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