The High School's new academic year will begin from the next month. Kirito trained daily from endurance training and running to hitting the gym and played some volleyball games in the local gyms nearby. His mom feed him many nutritious foods for a week and slowly but surely his physical body was growing and changing.
Until one day, he got up restless in the morning. Kirito had not set an alarm for this particular morning since it was the weekend. He didn't even had a bad dream, just felt uncomfortable.
He felt uncomfortable throughout his body. It felt foreign. It felt like his clothes were struggling to hold him. His feet were also cold and chilly.
As soon as he thought of his feet being cold and chilly, he shot up from the bed.
The things he saw before him couldn't describe the millions of emotions he was going through at that moment.
"YESSS!!WOHOO!!" Kirito yelled at top of his lungs.
Kirito's feet were dangling out of his bed. Not only could he feel his feet hanging loosely but he could almost see his shin.
He looked at his arms and body. The clothes he was wearing previously, were now so short that he could see his forearms. The clothes he was wearing, were clinging to his body for their dear life.
"UI." Kirito said hurriedly.
He wanted to check his stats quickly and oh boy, did it make him smile and lose his mind.
[Name: Kirito Yagami
Height: 196 cm(+13)
Speed: 75(-2)
Strength: 75(-2)
Stamina: 80
Jump: 75(-6)
Spiking power: 75(-2)
Balance: 65(-16)
Skills: Adaptation(unlocked), Infinite Physical Body(unlocked)
Technique: Spiking(75), Receiving(72), Blocking(75), Serving(75), Digging(72)]
"Hahaha, this is way to damn good." Kirito said.
[Morning, Host.]
"Look at who has finally arrived." Kirito said.
"I thought you forgot about me." Kirito added.
[No, Host. The system was rebuilding and restructuring your body for the most optimal physical structure needed for the Host's path in volleyball.]
"Alright, alright system." Kirito said.
Rubbing his hands together, he excitedly asked about the two skills he had unlocked and their drawbacks because Kirito knew with great power comes greater sacrifices.
[No, Host.]
[The Host will have only a few constraints or rather drawback from these skills.]
[First, for your Adaptation skill, until you reached an overall stat of 160 you won't be able to permanently adapt to anything.]
[Your stats from Speed, Strength, Stamina, Jump, Spiking power and Balance, all must reach an overall stat of 160 to permanently adapt to everything.]
[Until you reach the overall stat of 160, the Adaptation skill will just temporarily adapt to everything. Meaning, every match or game you play, you will be able to adapt to everything instantly, but after the game ends, the things you adapted to, will revert back or delete itself to how you were at the beginning of the match.]
[Mind you, only the things that you adapt to, for instance, adapting to opponent's attacks, physical attacks or strategy will be removed or deleted.]
[The stats that the Host has at the beginning of the match, will not change at the end of the match, since that is the stat earned from the Host, through hard work.]
[However, if the Host gains boost in the stat with the help of the Adaptation skill, that stat will immediately revert back to it's original stat at the end of the match.]
"Alright, so basically I can adapt to everything, it's just that by the end of the match, the things I adapted to, will be removed." Kirito said.
[Correct, Host.]
[If the Host has overall stat of 160, you will unlock the permanent feature of the Adaptation skill.]
[Meaning, you don't have to unnecessarily adapt to everything every time. The things you adapt, will permanently be with you all the time from then on. Even, the boost in stats provided form the Adaptation skill will be permanent.]
"Hmm, not that much of drawback, I must say." Kirito said.
[Now, for the Infinite Physical Body, it doesn't literally mean that it gives you an infinity/infinite (∞) value in the stat.]
[The Infinite Physical Body just removes every threshold value or limits of the Host's body.]
[Let's say, before getting this system, your overall maximum stat was 90. The Host couldn't go beyond the stat of 90 no matter how hard you trained or suffered.]
[But, with the Infinite Physical Body all that limit is removed. You could even reach a stat of 300, if the Host works really, really hard.]
"Wow, so basically both the Adaptation and Infinite Physical Body skills are inter-related to each other." Kirito mused.
[Correct, Host.]
"If my overall stats, let's say was only till 100, I would never be able to permanently adapt to anything nor use the Adaptation skill in it's completed form." Kirito wondered.
[Correct, Host.]
[But now, with the Infinite Physical Body skill, you can reach at that required stat to unlock the full potential of the Adaptation skill.]
"Noice." Kirito said.
[It seems, it is time to bid farewell with the Host.]
[The system has completed every protocol needed to assist the Host.]
[From now on, it is upto Host's determination, hard work, blood, sweat and tears to completely utilize the skills given.]
[The system will be back when the Host reaches an overall stat of 160 to conclude the final protocol.]
[Until then, Farewell Host.]
"Thanks." Kirito nodded.
Kirito exited his UI and stood up from the bed.
Just then, his mother burst into Kirito's room.
"What happened, sweetheart? You were screaming like you had just won a lotter-" before she could finish her sentence, she froze.
Kirito's dad also came up to check the commotion. But, as he looked into his son's room, he too froze up before laughing hard.
"Buhahaha, what the hell happened to you!" Kirito's father howled.
"Let me take a picture real quick." he added.
"Oh boy, this is going to be generational." he added.
*click* *click*
The picture revealed Kirito wearing his short and tight dress which looked comical.
The shirt he wore was about to tear, his sleeves reaching his forearm and his pants upto his knees.
"Buhaha, this is so fun." Kirito said.
Kirito had black line all over his face.
"Heh, at least now I'm taller than you, pops." Kirito said smugly.
As soon as Kirito said this, his father froze up again.
"No, no, no this can't be real." His father said in panic.
"It is real, dad." Kirito said proudly.
Not believing at his son, he quickly came infront of Kirito to compare his height.
"NOO! This can't be real." Kirito's father said while lying in all four in the ground.
"Muhahaha, how's that for a change, dad!" Kirito said with a smile.
"Hehe, so from now our small baby has become a big baby." Kirito's mom said.
"What do you mean by big baby?" Kirito's father said quickly.
"That dude is pushing 16! He's an old man!" Kirito's father said.
"Hahaha, you can't say that to your own child, you know." Kirito's mother said.
"Hmph. Sure you've grown, but now, from where will you get the dress to wear for you size, hahaha." Kirito's father said.
Kirito grinned at that.
"Obviously, your dress are going to fit him." Kirito's mom said to Kirito's dad.
"Hehe, you are the best, mom". Kirito grinned.
"NOO! Not my dress! Ain't gonna give him a single one of them." Kirito's father exclaimed.
"But in this house, other than your dress, nobody's dress will fit to me." Kirito said with the most innocent face and feigned ignorance.
"You liitle brat! Come here!" Kirito's father said as he charged to his son.
Kirito seeing his dad charge at him, ran around the room in circles, sometimes behind his mom, sometimes upon the top of the bed.
"Hahaha, you can't catch me pops!". Kirito said.
Both of them ran wild, up and down, creating a mess of the room.
Finally, Kirito's mom couldn't bear to watch the antics of her husband and son, so she quickly gave a head punch to both of them. They silently fell in line and stood infront of their mom like a soldier.
"Now sweetheart, I'll go bring your dad's clothes to wear while you go freshen up yourself." She said lovingly.
"While you, come help me making the breakfast." Kirito's mom said to Kirito's dad.
"Yes, mom." both father and son said in unison.
Then, they left the room.
Kirito went to washroom to freshen up. As he came infront of the mirror, he was shocked by the face staring back at him.
With a healthy and rich dark brown hair crowning his head and coupled with the sharp jawline, high cheekbones, straight nose and a very balanced symmetrical face fitted with beautiful deep green set of eyes, screamed a handsome, youthful and model-esque boy.
He didn't look like a Japanese at all. He looked like a chiseled European.
After admiring for some time, he hit the shower, brushed and put on the clothes his mother had brought to his room.
It was a classic formal shirt and pant. The shirt was in grey and the pants black.
He quickly fitted in those clothes and rushed down to the kitchen to have breakfast.
As he approached the diner table, both of his parents stared at him for a moment.
"Wow, sweetheart you really look good in those dress." Kirito's mom smiled.
"Obviously, he takes after me, so he must really look good. Hmph." Kirito's dad said proudly.
Kirito just smiled at them and gave a hug to both of them.
After having breakfast, the family went on a shopping spree. Since, it was the weekend, the streets were very busy and packed with people.
But the father and son duo, were like giraffe in the street.
Everybody looked up to them in wonder and since both of them were very handsome it attracted quite the attention.
Kirito bought many clothes as the old ones will never fit again. He also bought new shoes for both the sports and regular wear.
They bought a new bed too, as the old one wouldn't fit Kirito.
After all the shopping spree they went back to their apartment and called it a day.