A swirling portal tore open in the warehouse storage room, its edges crackling with light. Sho stepped out, and at exact the moment, the portal vanished —taking the key along with it.
Not that it mattered anymore. The key had lost its worth. With the Anywhere Door in his hands, Sho could go to meet superman whenever he pleased.
He glanced at the clock on the wall. He spend around three hours in the DC world, and exactly the same amount of time had passed here. No time difference.
Sho dragged over a stool and sat down, pulling a syringe out of his inventory. Inside it swirled a strange, glowing blue liquid. It didn't look like blood at all—completely transformed, pure and radiant.
Took a heavy breath.
"Well… Let's try it" he muttered, pressing the needle into his arm.
The instant the serum entered his bloodstream—THUMP. THUMP.
The surroundings seemed to shake, but in reality it was just his pupils contracting, making his vision throb for a moment.
His veins burned like rivers of fire, blood rushing so fast he could feel it tearing through him. Smoke hissed out from his pores, curling into the air.
Sho clenched his fists, breathing heavily, a manic grin spreading across his face.
"This is it… I'm Superman now."
He rose from the stool, Closed his Eyes and spread his arms wide feeling the change. The storage room was swallowed in fog, thick and suffocating, nothing visible beyond the haze.
Inside him, every cell screamed and shifted, breaking apart and rebuilding into something new. Something beyond human.
Cough! Cough!
"Dammit… what's with this fog?" Sho muttered, squinting as he waved his hand in front of his face. The air was thick and heavy, hot and humid like a steaming bath. He could barely see a step ahead—just endless white haze.
"Where's the damn door…" He stumbled forward, hands stretched out like a blind man, groping through the mist until his fingers finally brushed against cold metal.
Click.
The door swung open, and a rush of fresh air hit him. Sho stepped out, taking a deep breath like he had just escaped drowning.
"Boss!"
He turned his head. It was Baka, standing a few feet away, eyes wide as he glanced at the smoke still pouring out of the storage room.
"What the hell is that, boss?"
"Nothing serious. Just leave it be for a while—it'll clear out on its own," Sho said, brushing it off.
"By the way, where are the others?"
"They went outside for a quick drink."
Sho raised a brow. "And you didn't go with them?"
Baka scratched his head, a little sheepish. "Well… I didn't really feel like drinking tonight."
"Fair enough." Sho shrugged. "Anyway, I'm heading out too."
Before leaving, he slipped into his school uniform, buttoning it up carefully. If his mother saw him without it, she'd start asking questions—and the last thing Sho wanted right now was to explain why he hadn't been at school all day.
As Sho stepped out of the warehouse, the last rays of the sun brushed against his face, golden light stretching across the horizon before it will set off completely in two hours.
A familiar chime echoed in his head.
> Congratulations Host for acquiring The Kryptonian Bloodline....
System Synchronizing The Bloodline
Charging With the System Screen For Host Understanding.
Synchronizing Completed
[/ ] 1%
"Charging percentage?" Sho muttered, staring at the numbers. "Wait… is this like solar radiation charge?"
> Correct. Kryptonians draw power from solar radiation. The percentage reflects the amount of energy the host currently possesses.
Sho's eyes narrowed on the tiny 1% glowing in the corner of the screen " So basically the same as normal Kryptonian, charge under the sun and gain power"
But then another thought hit him, and he paused, lips curving into a grin.
Wait. That's it? No penalty?
He thought back to the other rewards he had received. The Dimensional Key—one-time use. The Anywhere Door—cooldown restriction. Every powerful item had some sort of drawback.
By all logic, the X-Syringe should've had a penalty too. But this? This was just pure gain.
Sho's grin widened into a laugh.
'Hehhheeee… looks like the system slipped up this time.'
He tilted his head back, chuckling to himself under the fading sunlight. No way in hell was he going to remind the system. Why would he willingly nerf himself?
As He walked towards his home happily.
...
[ ////// ] 10% Charged
It was dinner time. Sho sat with his family around the table except for his dad who was still busy at his clinic, the quiet clinking of chopsticks the only sound filling the room. No one spoke—until his little sister decided to break the silence.
"Mom, don't you think brother's been coming home late this whole week?" Mio said with a sly grin. "Maybe he's not even going to school. Maybe he's bunking somewhere."
Sho nearly choked on his food. He grabbed his glass and gulped down water, forcing a cough away. "Don't say stupid stuff. I have club activities, that's why I get home late," he shot back quickly.
He finished his plate in record time and stood up, heading straight for his room.
"Mom," Mio pressed on, her eyes narrowing, "don't you think brother's acting weird lately? Maybe he really is bunking."
Ayaka sighed, clearly tired of her daughter's suspicion. "The school has a messaging system. If students don't attend for a few days, they send a message asking for reasons. We haven't received any, so stop bothering your brother."
Mio puffed her cheeks and made faces, clearly annoyed that her mother was taking Sho's side again.
Meanwhile, inside his room, Sho sat on the bed with the system screen floating in front of him. The charging bar glowed faintly.
[///// ] 10%
That was all it managed to build up from the walk home after the warehouse.
'It really does take time to charge… could that be the penalty?' Sho tapped his chin, staring at the slow-moving bar. 'Even if it is, it's not that bad, I guess. But there's still one question—if it takes this long to fill up, then how long will it actually last once I start using it?'
He leaned back against the wall, eyes narrowing at the thought. This was something he needs to find it himself
'I'll need to test it tomorrow… see how it really works.'
.....
The next morning, Sho slipped on his shoes and called out, "Mom, I'm leaving for school!"
He shut the door behind him, stepped outside, and quickly glanced left and right. With no one in sight, he traced a magic circle beneath his feet.
Whoosh!
In an instant, his figure vanished from the front gate and reappeared miles away—standing in the middle of the Australian outback.
The land stretched endlessly in every direction, dry and barren. Not sandy like a desert, but like empty dried up type land with some scattered shrubs, small tress and a horizon that seemed to go on forever. No houses. No people. Just silence under the blazing sun.
Earth had no restrictions on teleporting unlike the Underworld. As long as he avoided private property—or the domains of supernatural beings who might take him for an intruder—he was free to appear wherever he pleased.
Sho looked around, satisfied. "Perfect. Empty land, no one around… and plenty of sunlight."
He spread out a mat on the ground, sat cross-legged, and pulled out a handheld console to kill time.
"Alright then… let's put myself in charging mode."
The system screen floated up before him.
[///// ] 13%
He kept playing, minutes dragging by under the hot rays. The bar climbed slowly, steadily—until finally, after almost forty minutes, the numbers flashed bright.
[///////////////] 100%
Sho set the console aside, staring at the glowing bar with anticipation.
Sho packed away the console, the mat, and even his Specs-D glasses back into his inventory. Then he crouched down, lowering himself into a runner's stance—both hands touching the ground, one leg stretched back, the other bent forward, ready to spring.
But instead of staring at the cracked earth ahead, his eyes glanced upward, fixed on the endless blue sky.
"Here it goes…" he muttered under his breath.
Sho sprinted off with all the strength in his legs, trying to build momentum before jumping.
As he launched himself into the sky, the ground cracked behind him, dirt and stone splitting apart as he leapt. His body shot upward like a cannonball. The air whipped against his face, the wind roaring in his ears. His arms flailed slightly, fluttering like a bird's wings struggling for balance.
"Whooooooo—!"
For a moment, he felt weightless. The sky was his. The rush was intoxicating.
But the feeling didn't last.
Like a baby bird leaving the nest too soon, gravity yanked him down. His brief flight turned into a nosedive.
"Ahhhh!"
THUD!
The ground cracked again, dust spraying over Sho as he slammed back into the ground, sprawled on his back. His body ached—not real pain, just his brain playing tricks. His Kryptonian cells had already toughened him.
"I thought it would be easy…" he groaned, staring up at the same sky that had just rejected him.
Sho glared up at the sky, his teeth gritted, his legs bending lower and lower as the ground beneath him cracked like thin glass under pressure. He could feel it building inside him, the same force that had thrown him upward before.
Then—BOOM—he launched himself, the earth shattering behind him. His body shot straight into the air, faster, higher, his hand even brushing through the cold mist of the clouds.
But the moment he lost that push from the ground, it all slipped away again. The power didn't carry him forward, only up. And now gravity was yanking him back down.
"Dammit! What am I doing wrong?!" Sho yelled as the wind roared past his ears. "I can feel it—I can build the pressure to throw myself up, but once I'm in the sky, I can't hold it, I can't throttle it forward!"
He slammed into the earth with a deafening THUD! This time the ground didn't just split—it caved in, forming a crater around him. Dust billowed, rocks tumbled, and for a moment he just lay there, grumbling. Then a hand clawed at the edge of the crater, slowly pulling his body out. His breaths came heavy, his face streaked with dirt.
Sho dropped to one knee, fist pressed against the ground, eyes squeezed shut. The world around him hushed. The only sound left was the howl of the wind and the soft rustle of leaves far away. Then, slowly, the ground began to tremble. Pebbles lifted off the earth. Dust swirled upward, drawn toward his clenched fist.
Sho's eyes snapped open.
SWOOSH!
He blasted off like a missile fired into the sky, the force ripping through the air in a violent shockwave. In mere seconds, he was high above the clouds, streaking through the sky. The clouds tore apart around him as if he was carving his own path.
But even then—his body began to slow. The momentum bled away, his flight faltering. His chest sank.
And once again, he started to fall—like a meteor, burning, crashing back to the waiting ground below.
"Not again…" Sho grumbled, straightening his body and bracing for another brutal landing.
THUD! The ground split beneath him, but he didn't waste a second. He shot up once more, then again, leaping hundreds of Km with each jump. By the last one, something clicked—his body finally caught some momentum. He was flying, though still shaky, wobbling in the air. His face brushed against the clouds, stinging from the cold mist, and he realized he couldn't even change direction.
And then… gravity dragged him back. Slowly, the clouds thinned, and the cold wind whipped against his face.
BOOM! He smashed into ice, the impact shattering the sheet beneath him. The shockwave rippled through the frozen water, splitting a nearby iceberg into floating fragments.
Sho burst out of the freezing water, soaked, and pulled himself up onto a jagged block of ice. He stood there, staring at the endless white horizon.
"Where the fuck… did I just travel to in a few seconds?" he muttered. His eyes darted around the barren ice.
Antarctica.
He had gone from Australia to Antarctica in less than a minute.
[//////////////// ]99%
Sho looked around for only a moment before bending his knees and blasting off the ice again, shooting into the sky. This time, blue and red sparks crackled around him, wrapping his legs in a faint glowing hue.
"Yes… this feeling—I got it," he muttered. The energy, or aura, or whatever it was, flared brighter. Blue and red arched along his sides like wings of fire, like a phoenix being born.
Higher and higher he soared, until his body suddenly stopped. He hovered, suspended in the air, weightless—like gravity no longer applied to him.
Sho's eyes widened as he realized what was around him. Black. Endless black, scattered with glittering stars. And below… the blue planet—Earth.
He had broken past the atmosphere. He was in space.
The blue-red aura still danced around him, shimmering. Sho raised his hand, staring as the sparks began clinging to his skin, shifting and molding. Slowly, they formed something new.
A suit.[ Image]
The Suit blue in color with a bold S symbol In red shimmered on his chest along with a red cape flared from his back, snapping and flowing gently in the weightless space.
"So this… this is how I can use Kryptonian power. The suit—just like Superman's. This was the key," Sho whispered, marveling at the form.
It wasn't fabric, nor any elastic material. The suit was pure energy, pressed tight against his skin, shining faintly like starlight.
> Host is wrong. The suit has nothing to do with accessing Kryptonian power. It is the manifestation of Host's unconscious imagination. However, this manifestation may help you grasp your strength and control it more easily.
Also Host has connected the Kryptonian power with his Manifestation and Can turn off His power By basically Removing the manifestation(Suit).
"I see… Thanks for Explaining " Sho muttered, reaching out and rubbing the floating system screen.
"Good boy."
> ...…
As Sho let his body fall back toward Earth, he didn't pay much attention to the system's last words as he was too excited.
A glowing flare surrounded him as he pierced the atmosphere.
SWOOSH…!
Like a blazing comet with a blue-and-red tail, Sho streaked across the sky, cutting through clouds until he slowed and stopped, hovering above a vast, endless ocean.
He took a deep breath, the wind whistling past him. "Alright… let's try something else."
Closing his eyes, Sho focused—not on sight, but on sound.
At once, the world came alive in his ears.
"Yooo gang!"
"Mom, I want that one, please!"
Car horns blaring.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!"
The roar of a jet engine.
"Who did you call..."
TV chatter.
"…Oh, it's wet now, it'll easily stretch…"
The overlapping chaos slammed into him all at once, an endless storm of voices and noise. Sho winced, rubbing his ears.
"Super hearing is good… but I need way more practice. This is overwhelming—everything's just mashed together."
He forced himself to cut it off, exhaling slowly. Then he lifted his arm, energy gathering faintly around his fist.
"Let's check how strong the punches are," he muttered, raising it slightly. Not full power—just enough to test. And with the ocean beneath him, it wouldn't cause much harm… or so he thought.
Sho's fist hung above the ocean, a faint glow dancing around his knuckles. He was about to swing when, deep beneath the waves, a very different scene was playing out.
Meanwhile, under the ocean, a big whale and a small whale swam side by side.
"Son, today I'll teach you how to dive out of the water."
"Dive? That's so cool! But Dad… can't we fly instead? You know, like those things that fly above us sometimes?" the little whale asked, pointing his fin upward.
"No, son. That's a different species."
"But you said we're the biggest and strongest. So why can't we go up there? Why can't we touch those white fluffy things?" His wide eyes gleamed with wonder. "I want to touch the clouds, Dad. Please teach me how!"
The father whale sighed, his massive body rising slightly as his gaze turned upward.
'How do I tell him… it's impossible? We were never meant to fly.' He stared at the sky above the surface, the drifting clouds reflected in his dark eyes.
BOOMMMM! SPLASSSHHHH!
But Suddenly both whale felt something as if They are going upward.
While Sho's mouth hung open in literal shock.
[/// ] 30%
The punch he had casually thrown… it had created a literal hole in the ocean. The water rose like a Cylindrical wall spiraled skyward, twisting and roaring as if representing his strength.
"Shit… this is toooo much," Sho muttered, eyes wide. In that moment, he understood something terrifying and exhilarating at the same time: he could destroy the planet with just one punch.
Maybe not right now but in future.
Almost instinctively, he rocketed back toward space, leaving the ocean and the chaos he caused far behind.
Meanwhile, below, the little whale flapped its fins excitedly.
"Dad! Did you see? We can actually touch the clouds!"
The father whale blinked, confused, his massive form trembling slightly as he looked at the towering water column.
"Eh… yes, son. I… I guess we really are the biggest and strongest," he muttered, still trying to process what had just happened.
........
Floating silently in the void, Sho stared at the system screen, the numbers glowing softly in the darkness.
[//// ] 30 %
"70%… was consumed by that punch," he muttered slightly disappointed Not because of the punch , but the energy required to unleash such strength and the time needed to recharge the Energy.
Finally, it clicked—he understood the penalty.
"System… will it always be like this? Charging takes so much time and it disappears so fast," Sho said, frowning as he floated weightless.
> Host can simply train to get stronger. The stronger the host, the more solar radiation he can absorb and when the charge reaches 0%, Kryptonian power will turn off until recharged again.
Also, the host's manifestation is now linked to accessing Kryptonian power—simply wear the manifestation (the suit) to turn it on, or cancel it to turn it off.
> Host should also remember: to train effectively, turn off your Kryptonian power to return to your normal human form.
"Thank goodness… at least it's not dud. And it can grow as I get stronger Currently I am like a 1000mAh battery so i need increase it slowly from 1000 to 10000mAh," Sho muttered as he glanced at the endless stars around him.
Sho spent a bit more time in space, letting himself charge up. The first thing he noticed—charging in space was way faster than on Earth. Inside the planet, it took around an hour to fully charge, but out here? Maybe thirty minutes, if not less.
He also tried using super speed, moving like the Flash. Everything around him slowed down, like the world was moving in slow-motion. It was incredible… but it ate almost all his charge. Three seconds. That was it. Just three seconds.
His eyesight had sharpened too. From up here, he could literally see people on Earth, small as ants, but clear to his eyes. If he focused more, he could also hear their conversations and that barely used any energy or maybe it uses but its probably around 0.1%, practically not noticeable.
But flying normally was different. Even just gliding around consumed between 1 and 5% of his charge, depending on the speed.
Some hours later..
Sho reached his warehouse when one of his employees, Baka, walked up holding a small envelope.
"Boss, this envelope is for you," he said.
"Who gave it?" Sho asked, taking the envelope.
"You know that bat-like creature? It came by, and we heard Baldyy's voice. He said to give this to you and come to the Underworld for some good news."
Sho opened the envelope and saw train tickets inside—scheduled for tomorrow morning.
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