Chapter 8

Seconds before Terry's scream,

A hideaway somewhere past the upper consciousness,

The chair closest to the pen and the author's will,

Sitting on a dark and gauzy throne, A blonde and full-chested woman, who was clothed this time, peered through the sacred void and uttered with entertainment:

"Looks like our supreme husband has finally awakened. What do you think, Cammy?"

Her head turning towards her human counterpart, one to which she recently gave birth, Juhachi grinned.

"..." Her mortal maid, envoy, and avatar, still in a state of stasis, couldn't reply. Eyes closed, her body continued to sleep as if it could do so for thousands of years.

Though it probably felt so, it would have to go down soon. Sooner than John Castle—now Bogard could have ever imagined.

Though she was made to be weaker and progress slower than Juhachi's supreme shape, Cammy was no less gifted. Figuratively but also literally.

XX

Exactly down where Juhachi stared with her piercing blue eyes,

In a park somewhere in Central City,

"John! Dad, stop!"

Hearing Terry screaming behind him, John, at that moment, was finally taking his baby steps in the new world.

Yes, the Irish was awakening. And in a very manly way at that.

"Fuck!!!" Not from pain, John spoke the sacred tongue. Something he would only understand later.

Feeling the power of his father coursing through his veins and nourishing them, the young man he was suddenly understood what his mutant gene was about.

"Stay the fuck back, Terry!" Geese yelled towards his second oldest son, who was rushing them. Not because he was angry at him but because John's awakening was unexpected.

With his current strength, Terry would suffer great harm if he really rushed over.

As if on cue with his thoughts, John screamed when Terry was forced to stop by their father, a way only the latter mastered.

Enraptured in joy, indulgence, and pain, a strange and pleasurable pain, the youngest Bogard let his feelings out. And so he did he with the new power.

The growing cracks around John's feet from earlier, which were only about the size of his overall wingspan, spread further and further. Escaping from him at an exceedingly fast pace.

Seeing what was happening and feeling the air pressure coming with and above the cracks, Geese scowled and moved.

Without hesitation, he ran at Terry and pushed him away. Saving the 17-year-old blond from harm in the process.

At that moment, he didn't think about the benefits and the advantages his sons could procure him. What he could save, he simply did.

"This is..." Looking at the shattered trees and field, Geese was startled. Though he was powerful enough to be left unharmed, contacting the energy, it was the first time he witnessed an awakening of such proportions. "What happened? John, what's your power?"

When John was asked by his father, turning to face him, he smiled and said:

"Manliness."

"Manliness? What kind of power is that?" Bewildered as he surveyed John's expression closely, Geese probably understood that he wasn't joking. "Is that even a power? What can it do?"

At that moment, Geese's interest in his son John was the highest out of the four he had. He also had other children, but those were daughters. He never considered letting them inherit his wealth and legacy.

"John, are you okay?" At that moment, Terry ran toward his brother and asked. Feeling him up for potential injuries, he looked around the field in confusion and inquired. "Did you do all this?"

The place that looked like a park earlier was now closer to a battleground.

"It's late, dad; we'll go home first." John didn't reply or look at Terry. Instead, he met his father's gaze and stated.

Perhaps because of John's new power or perhaps because he was in shock...After John said those words, he didn't try to stop them from leaving.

XX

Outside the Bogard's apartment,

In the emergency stairs,

Once they returned home, Terry, who was hesitant to ask earlier, came up to John with the important questions:

"John, how did you meet dad? What were you doing with him? And did you really awaken just now?"

"What's your power?"

John told him to go easy on him before he began explaining everything that happened.

Starting from his mutant gene that now shared the two most important properties of this world's planets thanks to Geese and his earth-based powers.

Of course, he was smart enough not to explain everything, just like he did with Geese. In this world, mutants couldn't hide their awakening. But, nobody could know mutants' mutant-genes names or abilities unless they revealed those.

XX

Going back to his room, John compared his power with Terry's.

Terry wasn't as careful with his life situation as John was. And his power wasn't as strange as John's, so he announced it directly to his family members.

Awakening their latent genes, mutants would automatically know their gene names and how to use them. The more gifted mutants would know to wield their powers more skillfully from the start, though.

Terry's mutant gene was a little similar to Geese's. The guy was their dad, after all...

With a twist, though. Terry's power was called [Power Geyser]. Though an inferior version of Geese's [Ergokinesis] in its infancy, Terry wasn't limited to one element. Like his original version in the anime adaptation, he could enhance his martial arts and create earth geysers and typhoons in the future.

Besides wind, earth, and fire, it was also possible to use several other elements. If not all of them, previous users most likely never brought the ability to its full potential.

Speaking of that ability, Terry wasn't the first to ever awaken it on Graphene or other planets. And neither was he the only wielder right now.

There were countless mutant genes. But between people with the same gene, what determined winning in a pure mutant fight was talent, sheer strength, skill, and experience.

But in a life and death situation, there was no such thing as a pure mutant fight to begin with...Martial arts existed in this world too. And for a good reason.

Martial arts could be counted as added skill and experience. They were lethal when comprehended well and merged with mutant abilities. Another reason why there were many gyms, dojos, and martial arts in this world.

Humanoids, not just mutants, went wherever they could get what they needed.

In addition, humans, not just mutants, used different weapons. So this world had intricate mechanics.

Recalling Altered Carbon, a show he was watching before he died, and Terry's plan, as he sat on his bed, John thought:

'If those guys are here too, this world is probably more fucked up than I even imagine.'

John, who had just awakened a very strong mutant gene, wasn't considering this with a pale or dark complexion. No, he was smiling.

Especially as he recalled a certain gorgeous and slender milf. Miriam Bancroft.

A little horny, the young man stood up from the bed and walked to his desk. He was going to check if the insidious yet hot milf was also part of his new world.

'She's really here. Miriam Bancroft, wife of Laurens Bancroft and acting CEO of Bancroft Industries...Interesting.' Checking the internet, John was glad to find that the woman of his dreams existed.

Fucking her had always been one of his wet dreams.

Though right now, it looked to be impossible or rather dangerous, he would make it happen.

[Bancroft Industries] was a huge corporation. But one of its most famous fields was [sleeving].

[Sleeving] basically refers to storing and putting souls in new bodies. Bancroft Industries dealt with cloning and soul-uploading.

Done relaxing and unwinding a little, in a good mood, John decided to go take that shower he so needed.

XX

Back in his room minutes later, the Irish, who had several odd powers, put on some underwear to go to sleep.

Focusing his mind on his awakened gene, he made a mental list. He nicknamed his mutant gene at the same time. Because it was too long to pronounce, he decided to call it [MNF].

[MNF] was an extremely versatile mutant gene. If not the most versatile possible. It covered attributes that men and women were respectively strong at intrinsically.

Men were sturdy, had violent strength, and had to be manly. In addition to exerting feminine attributes, women had style and agility.

If the masculine abilities represented a barbaric warrior or a paladin, the feminine attributes would be a thief, a healer, or a wizard.

This was the simple explanation...

...In addition to learning other women's powers while having sex with them, John's body was all-rounder from the start.

Being awakened by his deadbeat father's Ergokinesis was a godsend. Because when he was, John innately understood that MNF's first two abilities were the most meaningful. Those abilities were strengthened tremendously from the start, by a thousand times.

A window in space open, the young man stared at his first two mutant features. Those varied from mutant type to another and couldn't be spied on. John himself couldn't spy on mutants. Juhachi probably could.

Thankfully he had [anti-ntr senses] and [anti-ntr tracking] supremacies. With those, he could switch his women's genders in critical times. He could also directly get to where they were ensnared, like those K-toon protagonists that appeared out of nowhere to save the day, the damsel in distress, and to beat up the douchebags.

[Status]

[Supreme authorities: Gym-boss, Gender-alpha]

[Mutant gene: Masculinity and femininity]

[Mutant skills: Minor indestructibilityX1000, Minor healing X1000]

The [Minor indestructibility] was as the name suggested. At his core, which were his vital organs, John was indestructible like planets but in a minor way. Now it was boosted by 1000 times. So John couldn't say if he was undying already.

The [Minor healing] was even simpler. John could heal himself and others. That healing included regeneration and any other form, of course. Mutant genes were difficult to guess, but their names were genuine.

With those two powers, one could guess he didn't need much sleep. So he planned to nap and wake up later to test something naughty.

Unlike when he smoked in the emergency stairs earlier, he didn't have to worry about testing one of his new powers. Because he was planning to disguise his [MNF] as some bizarre hormonal and gender-bending mutant gene.

It was nothing odd in a world where people could change bodies with sleeves. It just cost a huge load of cash. Something the Bogards would have a hard time affording.

XX

The same night,

Two hours later,

Walking by his room in the corridor, John opened his second sibling Andy's door to see if he had returned.

Apparently, he did not.

He was most likely still chasing Mai somewhere or drinking his sorrows away. That or continuing to woo new girls when Mai's back was turned.

Lil Johnny was planning to use that great mistake to his advantage and ntr him...Well, if Andy was still a man at that time.

'Should I start with Terry or Pam?'

Reaching the living room, John was troubled. He didn't know how to choose.

Soon, remembering their hard-working mother, however, he decided to give her a night gift first. After all, thanks to his dual cultivation attribute, he could strengthen Pam and help her endure a day of work.

But above all this, he couldn't wait to cuck his dad...

Pam was perhaps fat now, but that wasn't something John's snake cared for at the moment. Or that he couldn't change by having sex with her or changing her off-work laziness.