Defying Natural Order With DeoxyriboNucleic Acid

After sending the mails, I went back to play for a few hours, before leaving when it was close to eating time.

So, what should I eat?

A few months ago, I upgraded to an American fridge, from its smaller predecessor, so I am able to stock up on food for longer periods of time than I originally could. Currently, I'm not only looking for something to prepare, but also something to nibble on while I prepare my food. And this is why I'm currently going through everything I have.

But...

Are my eyes betraying me? Should I switch them out?

While I would like to be able to change eyes like an Uchiha, it doesn't help me much right now. There is one major thing missing: the food to nibble on.

As a healthy person who doesn't mistake pizzas for vegetables, I am quite the Clementine enjoyer. Not a French girl, the fruit. I am literally your average Clementine enjoyer.

And so, as anyone with a bit of self-respect, only 3 days after my previous round of shopping, I am going to make a trip to the nearby supermarket for the sole purpose of getting some.

I leave my kitchen, get to my room, and pick some clothes to get dressed.

I am not fully nȧkėd, but I am one of those who are lightly dressed at home. This is why beyond the t-shirt and boxer brɨėfs I'm already wearing, I still have to get a tracksuit on.

One might neglect it due to its social implications, but few things are more comfortable than tracksuits. Of course, the recent rise in popularity of streetwear helped make the shut-in I am look less like a shut-in.

Once I'm dressed, I put my phone in my pocket, and open my door to leave.

And I am directly face to face with a stranger.

Standing at 1 meter 70, I am pretty much of average height for this country's standards. Yet the man in front of me is way taller.

I freeze for a second. Could I have been unknowingly sent to another reality or something?

Right now, as I was using my living space and not in dive just now, the sensors are disabled. Dangerous!

My Intelligence or Opportunism might not be synchronized, but I still have my Luck and Wisdom, while the second is telling me to step back, the first helped me by having the stranger be as stunned as I was.

As I recovered first, I step back as fast as I can and quickly close the door before me.

Or at least I try, as it gets stuck against a shoe.

These look like leather boots, which are already suspicious enough when worn by a man, but from the blunt way I felt the door stop, I'm pretty sure the tip is reinforced. The tip must contain a metal shell, just like safety boots. In fact, these must be some kind of modern safety boots.

However, these aren't the type of shoes that you would wear when going to a stranger's home, were you a normal human being. Were you a normal human being, you wouldn't try to enter a stranger's home anyway!

Beyond his boots, I can see comically black clothes. If mine are black because they are the most standard color for a tracksuit, his the not-standing-out-yet-standing-out kind of black. The type of clothes that would stand out just by how much they shouldn't stand out.

I remember checking the security footage just a few minutes earlier, there was no one on it, let alone someone with such an obviously suspicious getup. What kind of timing is it? Did he literally arrive at the same time I was about to leave?

I planned for a lot of things, but I didn't expect to get ambushed right as I left home!

I push as hard as I can on the door, but it becomes clear pretty quickly that I won't be able to close it.

Not that I'll let him open, though.

One of my synchronized skills is Thick Skin. It allows me to reduce CC by an outrageous percentage for 4 seconds. In fact, it's such an outrageous percentage that it is maxed right now, and the skill is actually is now increasing my Resistance stat by 34% on top of that.

The fact is, that pushing me anywhere is basically impossible, even with a door as an intermediary.

Pushing?

Pushing...

Pushing!

I didn't try so far because I had no need to, but now might be a good time to try to synchronize some of my skills.

I'm pretty sure that just using manual casting was enough for Slow, there's no reason it's not the case for the others.

Let me try!

I let go of the door, and take one step toward my opponent:

Palm Push!

My palm, slanted at an angle, rushed toward my opponent, hitting him right on his ċhėst, and...

He grabbed my extended left arm.

I don't need to wait until I felt the pressure to know it didn't work.

If it failed, then see if this will fail as well!

I don't know what he intends to do, but I know what I do. Using his strong grip on my arm, I bit as strongly as I can onto his arm.

As he reflexively releases part of the strength he used in his hand, I take the opportunity to free my arm.

I didn't hear any kind of synchronization this time too, but I felt it was closer.

Is this some kind of hint?

Not that I have much time to think about it now, as my opponent is no standing in the entrance, beside the now wide-open door.