Chapter 17 - Growing Up VIII

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A week had passed since the battle between All Might and AFO. Ikiru woke up as he did every morning, kissed Mikasa lying next to him and got out of bed. After having his breakfast in the morning, he started training. Time passed quickly until night came. He went out to train his Quirk as he usually did. He went to the training ground in the forest they owned. Mikasa followed him closely. Ikiru felt a tension in his Quirk today. Since he was training according to the directions given by the Creator, he had an idea of the change that was coming.

The Creator had made some adjustments in creating the Quirk that Ikiru had been given. Ikiru's access to his Quirk was at the forefront of this arrangement. Since increasing his control gave him access to psychic power, the creator also had to regulate the levels of control Ikiru could achieve. In an effort not to exaggerate the limitations he had over his Quirk, he divided this levelling into ten parts. At each level, he would be able to access ten per cent of his psychic power. Of course, the upper point of access meant here was not the unlimited psychic power he had.

When the creator created the Quirk, he copied the example he used as a base. Shigeo Kageyama had a limitation based on the intensity of certain emotions, with an upper limit of 100 per cent. When the accumulation of the emotion reached 100 per cent, he accessed the capacity of his power to control it. The Creator's levelling for Ikiru was similar to this example. However, he had to set an amount of unlimited psychic power as the upper point of his control and access. He, therefore, limited Ikiru's maximum reach to 100 million psychic powers. At each level he managed to reach under his control, he would gain access to an additional 10 million psychic power.

Describing psychic power in numbers could not be explained with any tangible result. The fact that psychic power was related to the soul made it respond to the will of the individual rather than the amount of power. The limitation created by the Creator was to limit what Ikiru could do with psychic power according to the level of his control. Because with the amount of power he accessed per level, he could already reach the top of the power scale of this world. The level of access was based on the functionality of the psychic power rather than the amount of power. In this way, the creator made Ikiru powerful while not disturbing the world's balance of power.

When Ikiru entered the '????' mode, he opened access to the psychic power he possessed. Over the past year and a half, his training had brought his power closer to 10 million psychic powers. With his training on the control level, he was getting closer to stepping into the second level. When he stepped into Level 2, he would have access to different psychic power abilities. He should be able to create these abilities with the amount of power he had. However, his access to these abilities was restricted by the levelling created by the creator. Ikiru was aware of this. He had brute strength, but not finesse. Brute strength would solve most problems. However, in a world overflowing with people with superpowers, brute strength was not enough to survive.

Ikiru could imagine many of the things he lacked, but with his poor control over his psychic power, he was unable to create the necessary skills and abilities. He had inherited not only psychic power from the person from whom he had taken his power but also his extraordinary talent. In other words, he had enough power and ability, but he was limited by the creator. Ikiru was not greedy. He obeyed his will and continued to work hard without slacking off. The Creator had made him strong. It was up to his choices and decisions to become too strong.

While Ikiru was drifting with these thoughts, he was standing in the centre of the training ground. "Is something wrong, Ikki? Are you feeling bad?" Mikasa asked from the edge of the training ground. Ikiru shook his head from side to side, "It's okay Mikasa, I was deep in thought, I'll start now." He began his daily practice. He began lifting weights ranging from one tonne to fifty tonnes with his telekinesis. However, the psychic itch he had increased. He stopped lifting weights and sat cross-legged in the air. Flying was his second nature. Sometimes he would be lazy and not walk, he would glide and fly to his destination. However, this flight took place about one centimetre above the ground. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't notice it. Sitting in the air, Ikuru closed his eyes and began to meditate. He followed his instincts and focused on his senses. Since he was a baby, he had been good at perceiving his surroundings to some extent. His instincts were telling him to work on this sense. Ikiru meditated for about ten minutes, focusing on this feeling.

Every second he stayed in meditation, his mind became calmer and sharper. After ten minutes, Ikiru opened his eyes with understanding and realisation. When he looked around, although his vision was the same as before, his understanding had changed. He used to have a superficial idea of what he was seeing and its characteristics. But the understanding he had achieved through meditation had changed that. He realised that the sense of the environment he had had as a baby was a gift of his psychic power. He had known this before. But the understanding he had reached revealed some things he didn't know.

By spreading his psychic power around, he was able to infiltrate everything around him. After this process, he received feedback from the psychic power he emitted. This caused some hazy auras to appear around him when he was a baby when he was sightless. Ikiru attributed this to the immaturity of his eyes. As he grew older, these auras became more sensuous. That's why it had taken him so long to come to this realisation. Now that he was aware of the situation, he could use and develop this ability willingly. He closed his eyes again and focused on the psychic power in his body.

After feeling the intangible energy circulating in his whole body, he thought of releasing this energy from his body. Following his thoughts, the energy began to spread from his body to his environment. However, compared to the amount of energy he had, the energy emitted was quite small. Ikiru did not care about this and continued to emit the energy he had. Ikiru was able to radiate energy as far as the circle with a diameter of five metres in the centre. He was ecstatic when the understanding of everything within this circle reached him. As this information entered his mind, he paused for a split second. It was the first time he had ever tried to process so much information.

Ikiru immediately disconnected from the energy radiating around him. When he opened his eyes, he lowered his head. Seeing the blood dripping down his legs, his hand unconsciously went to his nose. At that moment, he realised that the information he was receiving from the energy around him was overloading his mind. He had to be careful when training this ability. If he hadn't awakened the Ackerman bloodline, his brain would have collapsed long ago. Mikasa looked up from the book she was reading when she smelled blood in the air. She looked at Ikiru and disappeared when she saw him holding his nose. Mikasa teleported to Ikiru's side.

"What's wrong, Ikiru! What happened? Why is your nose bleeding? Are you alright!" Mikasa asked one after the other, worry and uneasiness enveloping her. Instantly, her consciousness heightened and she pulled the trigger. She attributed Ikiru's nosebleed to a possible spirit attack. Although she could do nothing against the spirits, she was ready to give her life to protect her son. "Calm down, Mika. I'm fine, I managed to create a new ability during training, but it turned out to be more dangerous than I expected," Ikiru said, hugging Mikasa. To ease her anxiety, he ignored her nosebleed and kissed her on the lips. Ikiru's blood was smeared on Mikasa's lips as he kissed her.

Mikasa had kissed Ikiru on the lips before. But this was the first time Ikiru had taken the initiative and kissed her on the lips. When she realised this, she unintentionally touched her lips. Thus, the blood on her lips also got on her fingers. When she saw the blood on her fingers, she licked her lips. Her flushed face took on a distorted appearance when she did this. This image was too beautiful for many men to see even in their dreams. Ikiru, on the other hand, had stopped his nose bleeding after kissing Mikasa and was looking at her. He had seen the face of Mikasa many times. She would have this face every time she tasted his blood.

"Now beam us to the bathroom, I want to wash up, and then we need to talk to Levi. With my new abilities, I think I have more control over my Quirk," Ikiru said as he hugged Mikasa again. Mikasa teleported them to the bath in their room as Ikiru had said. Ikiru was really tired from his training. His mind filled with more information than he could take in, which normally should have put him in a coma. But thanks to his awakened bloodline power, he still retained consciousness. Mikasa massaged Ikiru and washed him. After the bath, she and Ikiru went to the kitchen for dinner. Levi had already prepared dinner and was waiting for their arrival. Levi had increased his supervision over Ikiru and Mikasa after the first spirit attack. That's why he knew about Ikiru's newly developed abilities.

Even if he didn't know enough, he was aware of his situation. When they entered the kitchen, Levi immediately began to examine Ikiru. Levi had integrated the equipment he would need into the android body he had created. He examined Ikiru's body using infrared and X-ray vision. In his examinations, he found nothing but high brain activity.