The following week after I awakened my ability did not stray all that far from the overall structure of my usual routine, except now—the days seem brighter each day.

I decided to hide my ability for now in fear of being targeted by the surely numerous mysterious hidden organizations across the New Earth or maybe even Cosmic Beings, both of which would either shove their whole hand up my ass thus turning me into their cute little puppet or suck my ass off all its 'potency'. Thus I kept it to myself, not using it 'explicitly' in front of anyone — for now at least.

And just to be safe, I also made it so that no one would learn of my abilities' existence unless I let them.

I think it's very effective. It's been seven days since I awakened my ability and those supremely indifferent cosmic assholes usually have some kind of cosmic awareness yet they haven't visited me even in my dreams...

But even if I could affect even those guys, I'm not a fan of standing out too much either. What do you know? Even if I could just shrug off mysterious organizations and maybe even defeat a few weaker Cosmic Beings, I'm not exactly in the known of the Cosmic Hierarchy, I'm sure someone or rather, something out there is more terrifying than any sane mind could fathom.

Then again, if those guys up above are really much more powerful than I am, then I'm sure they've already noticed me. The lack of further reaction aside from maybe observation seems to suggest they don't have enough of an interest in me to do their deliberation. Nevertheless, it's better to be safe than sorry. For now, I'll lay low until I get more familiar with my 'new self' I suppose.

Still, even if I could not afford to stand out too much, I could at least manipulate reality in subtle ways or when I don't think prying eyes are around…

Like changing the weather for example. The other day, the sun's rays were so scorching hot that I saw the pavement quite literally melt my shoe made out of cheap plastic materials — so I made it snow.

I know I know, snow in summer? How is that subtle? Or so you may ask, but the weather in this world is more or less unpredictable. With many individuals and creatures capable of shifting the weather around even by their mere presence, snow in summer isn't really all that rare. Such drastic changes in climate happen at least ten to twenty times each season.

Without people looking, I could also eat the most mouthwatering of foods as much as I want. Although that first time I was a bit flustered where to hide the leftovers and trash wrappers when the roommate suddenly walked in, I was quick to make them disappear like I did to Th**os and gaslit the roommate thinking he was just seeing things with all that 'medicinal blunt' he smokes.

Well, after that conversation, I also did replace his memories for good measure...

Which I figured out I can now do.

Messing with the roommate's memory was kind of fun I guess. Although all I did was make him forget what he saw and why he walked into the room in the first place — the look of confusion on his face was absolutely priceless.

I'm not quite psychotic enough to go further than that however, but the temptation to just shove my whole hand up his ass and make him my puppet so I could order him to bath his stinky ass whose very presence renders the room smelling like a skunk just fart in it and his thick body hair that makes him looks like sasquatch was also continuously falling to the floor whenever he's in.

The temptation was very real on that one.

After that incident, I cleverly thought to just make it so that others couldn't see, smell, or even touch the foods I create. To them, I'm more or less mimicking the act of eating. I've become even daring enough to eat in front of my roommate and subsequently my classmates who all thought that I was just weird and gone a bit mad due to my 'dis-ability'.

Heh, the fools have no idea.

On that note, I also made it so that when anyone who can read minds does so, they could only 'hear' things that they think I would normally think and I also made it so that those who had read my mind beforehand and maybe picked something about 'my new ability' replace the memories of it including those who they have possibly divulge it to. Of course, making it such that no embarrassing things would come out as replacements like me playing my Jurmungandr or something.

Blocking off Telepaths as such seems feasible if imagining them in all sorts of absolutely horrid, maybe a bit lewd, situations in my mind while I'm near them is anything to go by.

On another note, I've also never been late to school since. I don't know how but I just wanted it to be and thought it be, then now for various reasons I've never been late since — even though I've never been more lax with my pace.

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Most importantly, those final exams and end-of-year projects? Guess who filled them and made them?

Yeah, that's right—Reality.

Of course, I've made it so that it would feel like I'm the one who made those projects to my more observant teachers even if it's a lot more decent than usual. However, the exams were in person and I didn't feel like studying for any of them, so I've used a bit of my brain power to think of a subtle way to use my 'charm' on that one…

Basically—I just made it so that the answers would appear in my head.

The answers with the necessary steps for Math and the Sciences, 'text-book' facts for History, and answers that feel like something I would write for Literacy.

And they did.

Convenient isn't it?

I don't exactly know how that works, but as long as it works, I don't really care all that much. Life is good right now, thinking about it would just give me something to think about and a highly likely case of existential dread. I've been in a very good mood as of late, wouldn't want to ruin it by thinking about it.

Of course, even if I don't want to dwell too much on its logical fundamentals like how can something come from nothing or how I was able to directly influence all probable future outcomes and select one that would be for certainty like why I will never be late again — I've also not been slacking in terms of finding out more about my ability.

So far, I have been able to do anything 'I've put my mind to' with zero effort. I didn't feel any kind of strain at all….

In fact, I didn't feel anything at all.

No tingle-wingle of wriggling wingle up my ass in the so-called gut like most 'conceptual' abilities seem to work, no mind-reeling sensation in my head like how Psionics describe their power, no strange sensation crawling inside the tip of my dick like how Magic-users implicitly describe magic, and in just general — not even the feeling of overwhelming POWAH!

Nope, it's like it's just something I naturally do that I don't think much about, like letting my urethra 'loose' when I'm peeing or a more classic description — like moving a hand…

But even moving a hand would put a strain on you if done enough time, and so here I am, in an abandoned park on the way home after attending my last day of middle school with the highest grades in all my academic career.

I've climbed and am now inside the closed-space slide tower made out of discolored decaying plastic covered in filth and disgusting green molds all of which I've rendered intangible to me, staring at the mythical and very very very rare Dark Eventium I've made to take on the shape of a sphere that I could see now to be the size of a volleyball in the middle of the tower room.

It's appearing and disappearing at a continuously blinking speed according to my will.

I've been doing this for an hour now, not even paying all that much attention to it while also making snacks for myself as I watch it like I'm watching a movie, and all this time I've felt…

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL.

At first, I decided to start small and slow, but feeling nothing, I started to gradually increase the speed and size…

And now it's threatening to grow large enough to 'figuratively' hit me in the face and crush my body as it is now appearing and disappearing much faster than you could see light appearing in a dark room when you switched the lights on, looking like it's just an afterimage in one of those fighting anime they air in the mornings that vexingly only those who were fast enough to not leave for school the same time as I am could watch till the end.

Still feeling not even the slightest of a thing aside from the psychological effect of achieving such a thing on my lately inflating self-esteem and ego, I decided to stop the experiment before I really felt something and extinguish myself with it instead. I mean just the shockwave caused by something with that amount of Cosmic Power appearing out of nothing in the middle of air molecules would be enough to destroy this whole darn continent like a billion stars just landed on it...

Which terrifyingly was not, even by the slightest bit, an exaggeration at all due to the nature of the thing. And I had created and erased such a thing, according to Reality itself, 96234132 and exponentially increasing amount of times without feeling anything at all.

Anyway, I suppose it's a good thing I made it not be able to affect anything as I did to my food to the perception of others, except this time it obviously includes me and za warudo which was quite weird really, it's obviously there in its all abyssal glory yet it's not there either. It's not just the normal kind of quantumly-explainable intangibility too, or at least I feel like it isn't. I just can't quite figure out why...

Until I ask Reality that is, you know, pulling information out of my ass and stuffing it into my head type of shit.

And trust me...

You don't wanna know why.

Anyway, having concluded that I could do at least this much and cause the total devastation of a smaller Galaxy like what was the Old Earth's Milky Way which I could barely wrap my head around the total implication of, I decided that I should design a more suitable experiment next time so I could test my limits better. For now, I made the sphere of extremely rare element disappear entirely.

With that done, I stood up and picked up my stuffed backpack full of books and notebooks and a bunch of other stuff I put in my locker over the school year, a heavy backpack which I also made to feel weightless to me and to me only.

Exiting the slide tower and riding off the old dirty slides which I made incapable of dirtying me no matter how moldy, wet, and disgusting it is, I started walking back to the orphanage.

While walking, I couldn't help but wonder about the things I had wondered wondering and now I wonder if I could just wander away from the wanderphanage, I mean orphanage.

One of these days, I'll surely find the confidence in this newly awakened ability of mine to be capable enough of facing enough of a threat to afford me a bit more freedom and some comfort.

To do that I must find out my limits first I suppose. And to find my limit, I guess I should do things that would really test my limits or maybe just test how far up in the hierarchy could my ability shield myself.

I continued to wonder about these things while walking back to the orphanage. At some point, I made a mouthwatering stick of wyvern barbecue while deeply pondering my next moves...

Should I stick around in the orphanage a bit more till I figure out where to go? Or should I just full-send it, fuck off from the scummy orphanage, and move into somewhere nice using my newfound ability?

With such questions in mind, I resume walking to the orphanage while also 'treating' my obviously malnourished body that recently has gained some flesh due to my recent 'continuous effort' and 'newly improved' metabolism that allows me to eat whatever whenever...