Ars, followed by Fierzy, approached his home, Fierzy was a bit confused about what he needed help with, and why the secrecy, but she trusted that he wouldn't harm her.
Once inside, Ars pointed at a chair and said " You can sit there."
He then picked another chair up, and sat in front of Fierzy, and then he continued " I have a secret ability, and I would like your help trying to find out more information about it… You see, I'm not sure if going there alone would be the same as being accompanied by someone else. Maybe nothing will change, or maybe it will develop new functions... And I need to test it... And that's where you come in... And I'd like you to keep this a secret at least for now."
When Fierzy heard what he wanted, she realized it was nothing serious, but it would require secrecy, she then looked at him smugly and answered " Just because i'm a bit explosive it doesn't mean i'm not good at holding secrets, and sure i will help, but tomorrow if you have nothing to do, instead of 2 hours i want at least 3 with Lily."
Hearing that, he laughed because he already expected her to negotiate something for holding the secret.
"So suddenly we have a businesswoman, of course, but in that case, if you tell my secret to other people without my permission, you will lose an hour... each time."
She looked at Ars shocked and then pleaded "But I only have 2 hours…"
"3 hours from tomorrow onwards, and in the future maybe you could reach 24." Ars corrected her with a mischievous smile.
"Can we change back to no conditions?? I just wanted more time with my baby…" she complained, with a sad expression.
"Sure, but you would go back to 2 hours and you still need to keep the secret, because if you don't, you could cause problems for me, and so, if you spill it, you will still be punished, so your previous request wasn't that bad for you." Ars accepted while explaining that the previous deal she proposed wasn't that bad, since she would still be punished if she started telling the secret to random people, even if she thought it was harmless.
"As long as the punishment doesn't involve separating me and Lily, I'm fine with any other punishments…. But don't misunderstand, I will keep your secret, and I will show you that I can be trusted. " She looked proud about being able to keep a secret, and at the same time she was thinking, If I can show that I'm dependable and trustworthy, I will probably be allowed to stay with my daughter sooner.
Ars didn't need to be a mind reader to see through her, but he appreciated that she would keep the secret. He got up, grabbed her hand, and before she could ask anything about why he was grabbing her hand, he teleported inside the pocket dimension.
She was now confused how they got to this place, but then she remembered that he said something about an ability, so she asked him directly.
" So your ability is teleportation???"
He let go of her hand, and answered while looking at her.
"Not quite, I can also open a portal to this place, but it takes longer… My ability is this place in itself… Ho yeah… I still need to collect a blood drop from every newcomer… Including yours. " He started explaining and then, he remembered that he should collect his samples. He knew that it wouldn't make much difference, but more samples were always good.
Ars then looked around to see if anything had changed from the usual. After looking he quickly spotted 3 new additions to his laboratory.
First he saw a new tank, in the same tube-like appearance from the other, then by its side, a completely new machine that was connected to a new computer and finally a typewriter.
First he went to the new tube to investigate, similar to the previous one, but with a main difference, the other could modify his body potential, while this one could only investigate the body of others, and he couldn't use it.
Then he went to the computer with the strange machine, on this computer he could see the files of anyone who had ever given a blood drop, he looked for Fierzy, who was now exploring the lab and said " Come here and give me a blood drop."
She went there slowly, he took out a dagger and made a small scratch on her finger tip, and inserted the blood sample. Now instead of exploring the laboratory she was paying close attention to what he was doing, she was looking at her own blood drop when it vanished into nothingness, she was shocked by it but she didn't say anything.
Ars looked at the Fierzy file, that just appeared and investigated, on it he could see:
Name: Fierzy Cinders
Body: 1.9 (+) | (-)
Mind: 1 (+) | (-)
Super Powers: N/a
Ars looked at it and saw that it was very similar to his normal file, the big difference was that in front of the values that corresponded to body and mind a group of buttons with a plus button and a minus button had appeared. He clicked on the plus for both body and mind, and when he did a new button on the right bottom side appeared, it said CONFIRM, he pressed it, and then the new machine by the computer started creating an injection.
When it was done, the computer gave a tutorial to Ars about how to use the injection. Removing the complicated stuff he just needed to inject Fierzy with it, and unlike, in his case, on her side, it would be much faster, it improved her and it could make her unconscious for a maximum time of 3 hours.
He looked at Fierzy, who knew what was going to happen, and before he said anything she laid on the ground and nervously said "Just do it, no need to ask…"
He nodded and injected her with it, the moment he did, her veins started becoming more visible, and she gritted her teeth. Ars was caught by surprise, he thought it would be painless, but apparently while it wasn't as painful as when he turned the option for being unconscious off, it still looked quite painful.
Since he couldn't help, he decided to ignore it and he went to the next machine, the typewriter, on which there were pre-made contract papers.
From what he saw there were 2 types of contracts.
The first solved his problems about secrecy, as long as both parties signed it off, it would guarantee the secret, even if the other party later on decided they would try to tell the secret to someone else, without his permission they would only speak gibberish.
The other type was a type of contract that linked the other party to Ars, on this type he could actually modify a few things, the most extreme case was that if he wanted he could link with someone and make them pretty much unkillable. In this case, the other party life would be linked with Ars life, and as long as Ars didn't die, they would never die, the moment they would take a deadly injury they would be teleported directly to Ars laboratory, where they would recover for a few days. This contract also made them unable to age past their prime, the only downside was if Ars died no matter where they would all die instantly with him and they would be absolutely loyal to Ars.
There were many other options, but for now he was going to use the first type to sign off with Fierzy.
After Fierzy woke up, around 1 hour later, she first cussed at him "You F*#/1% ass"#!/, you could have warned me about how much it would hurt."
"Sorry I actually had no idea it would hurt… But how do you feel?" Ars knew he was in the wrong so he quickly apologized before moving on.
"???Pretty much the same, why??" She was confused about the question.
Ars then explained " Well the injection should have increased your body and mind potential, slightly."
"Well I don't notice anything special, at least for now!" She answered a bit calmer now.
Ars then looked at her and said "Well now we only need to do two more things…."
She looked inquisitively at him, and he explained what was missing with a smile. " The first is you signed off this contract about secrecy, and before you say anything, this only appeared after you came in, soooo…. No, I didn't know. And the second is you getting in that tubular tank, so I can check what it does!"
She grabbed the contract, read it as fast as she could, and finally signed it off, then she started going towards the tube.
She entered it, and it started filling with liquid, at first she was a bit panicked thinking Ars was going to try and kill her, but then an oxygen tube came down and somehow automatically attached to her face, she felt quite relieved and realized Ars had no reason to kill her. After that, a few cables came down and attached themselves to different parts of her body. On some of the zones where the cables were in contact with her, she felt a prick, and then nothing else, she just stood there motionless, slowly starting to float up, waiting for more stuff to happen, to her surprise nothing happened other than the tank finally filling itself up and she floating in the middle of it.
Ars on the other hand, was now watching a much more detailed file of her on the computer being filled up with data. Now he could modify way more things, but all related to the body's appearance, like the color of the skin, hair and Eyes. He could also check if she had any sickness, and if she did, he could remove the sickness, no matter what the sickness was… In short the machine could indicate and expose anything in her body, and then change it.
He then thought to himself that he never tried to see if he could change his appearance on his own machine. He wanted to change something on Fierzy to see how it worked, but he didn't want to change Fierzy's body without her permission, so he found the button to let Fierzy off the machine.
She, on the other hand, was actually enjoying her time on the machine, other than the initial pricks, this machine was actually quite comfortable to be in, it was like a bath in warm water, the only thing she didn't like too much was that she was wearing clothes in there and that was making her uncomfortable.
When the tube let her out, she looked at Ars with an annoyed expression, since she felt that didn't accomplish anything, he laughed it off, and then said " We will be going back, you can grab a towel, dry yourself and your clothes, don't worry too much."
"I'm curious what this machine does ?" She asked Ars.
He smiled and then explained "To start with, it gives me a much complete file about yourself, from sickness to hidden injuries to age and appearance stuff, and it also allows to modify all of that, like removing the hidden injuries and sicknesses, or i could remove a scar and change the color of your hair"
She looked quite surprised, but before she said anything else he grabbed her hand and teleported back.
When they arrived, Nene was waiting for them.
Much to Ars' relief she didn't ask anything about the teleportation, and instead ignored it starting with what she came here to do straight away.
"We need to talk about the city, and what to give priority for now!"