Academy City's Level 6
Chapter 8

Eating to Become Handsome Superpower

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Finally, Luo Yifang couldn't stand the little loli's wailing in his mind anymore. He couldn't block sounds from unknown sources! After much persuasion, he managed to calm her down and finally settled on the name Paqi.

"Yay, I'm a person with a name now, oh no, a book!" Paqi seemed very happy, completely unlike her previous devastated state.

"I say... you weren't faking it just now, were you..." Luo Yifang suddenly realized something. His assistant seemed less simple than he thought.

"Hehe, what do you think?" Paqi's sly laughter made Luo Yifang feel uneasy. Even a little loli knew how to play mind games? Where had all the trust between people in this world gone! (Eaten by Xianyu...)

Helplessly, Luo Yifang didn't want to argue with the spirited Paqi. What if she started crying again? A 360-degree surround sound system, stereo effects, and an incredibly loud crying voice – were you scared or not, huh, scared or not?! Luo Yifang, who decisively admitted defeat, stopped paying attention to Paqi and began to study the results of his superpower development on his own.

"Hmm..." But perhaps because the auxiliary items and programs were too simple, Luo Yifang himself wasn't too sure what superpower he had developed, as he didn't feel the slightest change. "Except I'm a bit hungry... wait... a bit hungry?"

Luo Yifang knew his appetite wasn't usually large. He had eaten some high-calorie breakfasts before, so he shouldn't be hungry now. Yet, the emptiness in his stomach was undeniable; it was indeed a signal of hunger being transmitted to his brain, urging Luo Yifang to quickly consume energy.

Ten minutes later, Luo Yifang expressionlessly looked at the pile of instant bento boxes and coffee he had taken out of the kitchen refrigerator. Then, he expressionlessly heated all the bento boxes. At the same time, his hunger growing stronger, he had to open a can of coffee. He frowned. He didn't like the bitterness of coffee right now, especially when he was hungry. "It's no wonder my body is weak... eating this stuff all day won't do my body any good..."

After two gulps, the coffee can was empty. The moment the coffee went down, the hunger seemed to intensify. With no other choice, Luo Yifang began to drink coffee frantically while waiting for the bento to heat up, trying to dispel this somewhat bizarre hunger.

By the time the bento was ready, the kitchen trash can was almost overflowing with empty cans of coffee. What shocked Luo Yifang was that he had consumed at least two thousand milliliters of coffee, yet he felt no fullness at all. Instead, the boundless hunger felt even clearer. He could barely control his body's primal urge – to eat!

And so, to Paqi's exclamations, Luo Yifang, disregarding how hot the food was, devoured a bento box in just a few minutes, like a whirlwind. It was then that he understood why he didn't feel full. It seemed that the moment all the food entered his stomach, it was digested and absorbed by some unknown force, incorporated into Luo Yifang's body.

As he ate, Luo Yifang also felt the changes in his body. After some time, the kitchen was almost filled with kitchen waste. After Luo Yifang had eaten almost everything edible, he finally put down his chopsticks. He had noticed the immense changes in his body while eating.

He extended his right hand, and his previously slender arm now had well-defined muscles. Lifting the hem of his shirt, he saw tight, eight-pack abs on his lower abdomen and strong pectoral muscles. His physique had even grown taller. He was originally 168cm, but now, according to the feedback from the ability, he should be 170cm tall.

The perfectly smooth muscle lines made Luo Yifang look like a human leopard, not bulky but full of wild strength, agile and nimble, completely different from his former self! Paqi had naturally observed Luo Yifang's massive transformation as well. She said with some surprise and confusion, "What superpower did you get? Eating to get stronger or eating to get handsome?"

"I don't know what to call it either," Luo Yifang was also deep in thought. "This sudden improvement in physical fitness is very similar to reinforcement-type superpowers, but also a bit different. The only thing certain is that it must be an LV.5 superpower."

"Body Reinforcement LV.5?" Paqi was a bit puzzled. "You don't seem like the type to have muscles for a brain. I thought you'd awaken something like psychokinesis."

Luo Yifang shook his head and said, "Superpowers don't have much to do with a person's physical condition. They are closely related to a person's personality, subconscious, and true inner self. In other words, if your heart desires warmth and light, you have a high chance of awakening fire or light-based abilities. But what I desired most was simple: a healthy and strong body. So it's not surprising that I developed this superpower similar to body reinforcement."

"But isn't that kind of superpower synonymous with being weak..."

"No, that's not really the case. You think it's weak probably because, among Academy City's 2.3 million espers, none of them publicly have a similar superpower above LV.3, or rather, even a superpower reaching LV.4 shouldn't be weak, no matter what it is." Luo Yifang raised a finger and shook it.

"What about in secret?" The curious Paqi really had a lot of questions.

"I don't know about that, but even if there were, so what?" Luo Yifang chuckled. "I don't care if it's strong or not. If it's not as strong as me, even an LV.5, I can hang it up and beat it!"

"Tch..." Paqi let out a sound of disdain.

"Moreover, this body reinforcement of mine doesn't seem that simple," Luo Yifang completely ignored Paqi's disdain. "This reinforcement seems to be able to exist independently of superpowers. I just need to provide calculations when reinforcing. After reinforcement, my physical fitness is genuinely improving."

"That sounds a bit amazing," Paqi said, not understanding but feeling impressed. "But how often can you activate this ability? What if it can only be activated once, wouldn't that be game over?"

Luo Yifang chuckled at Paqi's words. "How could that be? However, 'how long it takes to activate again' is indeed not very accurate. As long as I want to and provide enough energy, this ability can be activated continuously. Hmm, thinking about it, it's almost too powerful. Tearing tanks apart... no, maybe tearing Gundams apart?"

Luo Yifang wasn't joking. Based on the initial information from the ability's feedback, he found that his muscle toughness, bone density, and cell activity, along with a series of other physical indicators, were no longer within the scope of ordinary humans. He wasn't sure exactly how strong he was because there was no ordinary human with the same data for reference.

"So, Luo Yifang's version of Captain America? No, with all your talking, you're probably Deadpool!" Paqi continued to mock Luo Yifang.

"You know that too?" Luo Yifang was surprised that this little loli book seemed to have watched movies. However, he didn't have much time to ask now because he had another matter to attend to – cleaning up the trash left from his meal...

"Sigh, such a laborious life..."

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