When I got my vision back, I was lying nude on a bed. I had a sore throat and pain in my abdomen.

‘That’s a nice way to start a new life.’ I was thinking sarcastically while touching my belly, which was wet for some reason. I looked at it and there was blood, but no cuts or any other injury.

A normal person would start screaming but since I saw blood so many times, it was nothing to me, and the fact that I didn’t have injuries was just weird to me.

‘...Whatever happened, I don’t care. It’s already a lot I got to live again.’ 

After thinking I got up and started looking around. It was a small double bedroom for a couple, with a double bed, with two night tables, one on both sides of the bed, a big wardrobe in front of it, there was just the essential space to let you open it and at the right of the bed there was a dresser and on top, there was a big mirror hanging on the wall. 

I looked at my image in the mirror, I had long brown hair, big black eyes, and going down my body seemed pretty well trained with some nice abs. I liked this new body overall, the only upsetting thing was my chest, it seemed to be b cup, smaller than to ones in my previous life.

I mumbled “Sigh, guess I had to lose something, at least my ass isn’t too flat- what am I saying? This is not important now!” I gave myself two light slaps on the cheeks and started looking around again.

The only weird thing about that room was…everything. It looked like someone didn’t clean it for years, there was a lot of mould on the walls and the window was closed with a chain and a lock. I could hear some cars but were distant, maybe I was in an apartment on the last floor.

I sighed ‘Ok I have a wild guess but this body might have died or was about to die before I took control of it and the person who killed this girl didn’t want her to leave this place. And there could be even more.’ I thought with a lot of anguish. ‘I guess I have to care about the situation after all.’

I decided to check the wardrobe and unfortunately, I was right. At the bottom of it, there were a lot of clothes stained with dried blood.

‘This room was well prepared in case the killer wanted to trap and kill someone and the fact he or she could have killed more than one person was just another wild guess, but I wonder why the clothes are here…whatever. Now, what I need are this girl’s clothes.’ 

I started searching between those clothes and found something even weirder, a clean kitchen knife.

“Maybe one of the victims found a way to sneak a knife in here and couldn’t use it. But I find it suspicious that it’s still here.’ 

I sighed ‘It would be nice to have some kind of time machine’ Aside from that, I was having fun playing as a detective, but apparently, games can’t go on forever.

I suddenly heard a door opening, someone was in the apartment, and surely that person was the killer. I quickly hid in the wardrobe and waited with the knife in my left hand.

"Sweetie! I'm at home!" a guy was speaking with a joyful voice, he sounded young and continued to speak while coming closer to the bedroom. 

"Hope you didn't escape! Because that would be hilarious-" he opened the door, which made a loud "screak" sound and said with a serious tone.

"...how? Wasn't she dead?" I heard him taking some more steps and stopped right before the wardrobe. I held the knife firmly, I wasn't scared since it wasn't my first murder but I still couldn’t be calm.

The wardrobe opened up and without thinking twice I stabbed the guy in the neck. He was young, maybe around 18 years old and I usually don't look too much at the appearance of my victims, but this time I had to because the guy didn't have any reaction as a normal person would after being stabbed.

He firmly grabbed my wrist and the grip was so unnaturally strong that my wrist broke. I didn't have time to react as he instantly forced me out of the wardrobe and threw me out of the room with inhumane force, that I hit the wall and then fell to the ground. 

My heart was beating fast. I felt a lot of pain from the broken wrist and now my back was aching too. I didn't want to show any pain, because I wasn’t sure he was the type of killer who liked to see others in pain and if he was, I didn’t want to give him any satisfaction, so I just gritted my teeth while my mouth was closed.

"Are you a monster too?" the guy said, more joyful than before and almost hysterical, while coming close and removing the knife from his neck and the injury slowly started to close itself.

Once he was close to me, he said "I’m so so so so happy! I can’t believe I found someone like me!” he then kneeled down and asked

“Did you also hear that voice before changing??”

“I-I don’t know what you’re talking about-”

While I was speaking, the guy stabbed me in the neck and said "You are right. You can’t know. If you were just like me you would have used your powers, but you can’t do that right?”

Blood started coming out of my mouth, I tried to say something but I could only gargle in my blood and he was right. In theory, I was just like him, but in practice, I could not use my powers. "You'll be able to use your new powers." Arismis said, was that that bastard lying?

"Are you dying already? That's sad. I wanted to burn you alive, but I guess I have to do something else.” He scratched his chin while walking back and forth and thinking; once he had an idea, he wasn’t as close as before and looked at me with wide crazy eyes and with those pupils that weren’t almost visible.

“Maybe I can have fun with your body while it is still hot." 

That phrase awakened memories I buried long ago, about my dad that would abuse me every time he was at home and I couldn’t do anything since he was the only “family” I had without even knowing who my mom was. But at 17 years years old I decided to change everything, I killed him in the middle of the night, with more than 100 stabs all over his body, but it wasn’t enough for me. I didn’t want other people to experience that or other bad things…this was the reason I started killing.

I removed the knife from the neck and the cut started closing by itself “People like you…” I started saying as I slowly got up and some lines of different colours started appearing all over my body “...seriously disgust me.”

I quickly threw the knife toward him and it was so fast that it passed through his body and left a hole where his penis was but that didn’t kill him obviously, instead, he was enranged.

 “How... DARE YOU?!” his hands started to go on fire and he directed that fire against me “A BITCH LIKE CAN’T EVEN DARE TO LOOK AT ME!” the intensity of the fire coming out of his was something incredible…

“I WAS GOING TO GIVE YOUR BODY IMMENSE PLEASURE AND YOU DO THIS??!” 

he would have burned me without any problem…if I was still a human.

The flames were just leaving some minor burns. I quickly ran towards him and once I was close enough I grabbed him by the neck and lift him without any problems.

The guy was shocked and tried to free himself by burning my arms, but it was ineffective. Meanwhile, I modified my other hand and transformed it into a blade.

When the guy understood he couldn’t do anything against me, he started crying 

“P-Please! I will stop killing girls, I promise! I don’t want to die!!”

I looked him in the eyes and said “Ok! I believe you.” I smiled and transformed the blade back into an arm.

His eyes slowly turned full of hope “F-For rea-” 

While he was speaking I put the other hand on his head and tore it apart from his body. I then dropped it on the floor and crushed it under my foot.

Immediately after that, I started hearing someone clapping hands from behind. I quickly turned around and saw Arismis, he looked quite happy.

“Congratulations! You did great” he said while smiling.

“Did you plan all of this?” I was looking at him seriously while the lines on my body started disappearing

He nodded “I just found the right body, in the right situation. I knew it would have been the best way for you to awaken your new powers.”

“You saw I risked dying right? What if your plan wouldn’t have worked out?” I was ready to attack him but I didn’t want to waste this new life.

“Since I have high hopes in your future self, I would have helped you by unlocking them myself. This would have been the first and last help from me and I’m happy it wasn’t necessary.” he said while still smiling, but he wasn’t looking at me.

“Mhp…ok.” I let myself be a bit more relaxed. 

“Now tell me, did you see his aura? What was it like?” he asked.

“If you mean like a dark red flame surrounding his whole body, then yes.”

Arismis snapped his fingers and pointed at me “You guessed right! And did you notice something about it?”

“It was concentrated at his heart but when I tore his head from his body, it all went into his brain. Was that normal?” I asked even if I wasn’t that much interested. It was more to keep a decent friendship or something like that with him.

“Yes, it’s normal for every Zonniki. As I said before, the aura is just an extension of your soul and a visible way to see the power level of someone, but it still needs some physical organs to let you use the powers and the more powerful you become, the less this will be required. Also, since I didn’t know your limits, I stopped the powers from being fully awakened.”

“I see.” I thought of something for a moment and asked “I know this request may sound weird, but can you unlock them and maybe help me in case something goes wrong?” I asked and then said, “Since I didn’t need any help for that dude, I thought you could help me now.”

He was surprised by that request and responded “Yeah, I could but first…” some clothes appeared before me. “You have to wear something no?”

I remembered I didn’t have any clothes

 “Y-You are right! Thanks!” I quickly started dressing while thinking ‘This is why he wasn’t looking at me’. 

He gave me a white hoodie, a pair of black leggings, underwear, a bra and a pair of black and white shoes. After dressing I said, “You like a lot black and white huh?” 

“Aren’t these the most popular colours among humans?” he asked perplexed.

“Well, I think so..Anyway I like it, I just asked because I was just curious.”

“Oh, that’s a relief.” He looked at me and smiled. “Anyway, we’ll start with your training today, because it will take a while”

“...how much time we are talking about?” I asked a bit worried, I didn’t want to lose too much time since I wanted to beat up criminals.

“From 1 to 10 years, it mostly depends on how your body responds to our new powers. But hey, look at the bright side, we will travel the world to beat any kind of criminal. Was that your main worry right?”

I nodded “Yeah but wait, can you read the minds of the people around you?”

“Fortunately for you, I’m not able to do that. Anyway, let’s not lose any more time. Are you ready to go?” 

“Oh, I’m more than ready.” I happily said.

It was finally time for me to take my revenge against this cursed world and create a better place for everyone-

“Don’t believe him-”

A whisper. 

I quickly turned around, surprised by that voice but there was no one else there, only a gentle breeze that caressed my face, but no window was open.

Arismis noticed I was acting weird and asked a bit worried “You ok?”

“Y-Yeah!” I gave him a thumbs up “I’m fine! Just tired I guess.”

“...I see. Well this first target won’t be that tiring so don’t worry”

A portal appeared out of nowhere and he went through it, while following him I looked at that decrepit apartment 

‘Was that…my voice?’