"Dad, Mom. Can you tell me everything that happened back then?"
Aisha and Gerald exchanged looks. Aisha looked at the sky before saying, "I'm sure you don't remember this, but you awakened your unique ability at the age of 4.
"However, you must remember that your grandfather told you once about you suddenly killing animals."
"!!!" Clovis raised his eyebrows. He definitely remembered about it. That was the reason everything began. It was because of his condition that his parents looked at him differently back then.
Although there wasn't much memory of that time, he still remembered the sensation.
"That was the time you awakened your second unique ability." Aisha raised one finger. "A unique ability is something you're born with. It has always been active in your body, but you can only utilize it when a certain requirement is fulfilled.
"For example, your grandfather was born with his unique ability, but he can only manifest that power when he's 18 years old, which is the exact time he becomes an explorer.
"In other words, the certain requirement is to become an explorer and awaken your evolutionary path."
"!!!" Clovis was surprised. Now that he thought about it, Another World Mall only appeared after he became an explorer. Although it wasn't immediate, he certainly awakened it not long after.
That was why the fact that he could awaken his second unique ability at the age of four meant something special happened.
"But Mom. If it's the first one to awaken, doesn't that mean it's the first unique ability instead of the second one?"
"Nope." Aisha shook her head. "Although it's the first one to awaken, something shouldn't happen unless something extraordinary occurred.
"In this scenario, I have checked everything related to the unique ability. Even without your grandfather, I'm certain that something changed when you were 4 years old."
"What do you mean?" Clovis frowned.
Aisha closed her eyes with a pained expression. "You know I'm a doctor, right?"
"When all this began, I examined your body, blood, and everything else. That was when I found out something special.
"In your body, there was a gene different from what you were supposed to have. I wasn't aware of whose gene or what gene it was, but it was clear that the data was different from the ones at your birth.
"Hence, I believed this gene was the real cause of your sudden awakening, the reason you're able to have a second unique ability.
"The exact details are still unknown even for me… No matter how hard I try to find the reason, I simply couldn't get it.
"Originally, this is how a unique ability appeared in people, but the fact you were 4 years old at that time made me doubt myself.
"During that time, I found out the exact gene that formed the unique ability. This particular mutation is still unknown, like how they're formed and other things. Everything I have done can't be close to replicating that gene.
"And this is the reason I know you have a unique ability in your body prior to the second one."
Clovis looked down, falling into deep thought. "Whose gene, huh… If that's the case, doesn't this mean I have received Mara's gene?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" She frowned. Even Gerald turned solemn.
"No. I feel like I understand it a bit more than you do. I'm afraid if I tell you the reason, you will think of me as crazy…"
"No. Tell me about it, no matter how unscientific it is." Aisha shook her head.
Clovis took a deep breath and pointed up. "I'm not sure if you know about it, but it looks like several people can actually see the system notification.
"Do you remember that our world is said to be a simulation world? I can see the system notification, though mostly about the error.
"Not long ago, I received a notification about 'two users with the same unique ability in the same world,' which is not supposed to happen.
"After listening to your theory about the gene mutation that allows one to have a unique ability, I come to a realization that this gene is Mara's gene. I have the same unique ability as Mara Leverstrike's."
"!!!" Both of them didn't expect they would reach such a conclusion.
Gerald rubbed his chin. "It's not unscientific. In fact, your father has told me about this ability. He personally couldn't see those notifications, but he has seen people with that power. Even the Prophet, your grandfather's archenemy, has that ability."
"If this is true, that means there's a way to transfer one's unique ability to another… As for the method, I don't know yet. And there's a chance it will destroy one's body…"
"Destroy one's body, huh? Now that I think about it, my unique ability is kinda weird." Clovis tilted his head.
"Whenever I look at everyone's unique ability, I realize that it's some sort of mutation to the body. Even Christina's Provoke is the mutation of one's instinct, right?"
"However, my unique ability is different." Clovis waved his hand and took out a cupcake from the inventory.
"Huh? Where did it come from?" Gerald squinted his eyes.
"From my unique ability. My unique ability allows me to bring out things that aren't supposed to exist. After learning from your theory, it doesn't make sense for this to be a unique ability…"
"No. That's certainly your unique ability, but this… is a strange mutation… Something that no one has ever seen before. It might be because of this mutation that your body can somehow receive another mutation. However, I have no way to prove this theory, no matter how plausible it is…" Aisha assured him.
"I see…" Clovis pinched the bridge of his nose. "This is a problem."
"Now, I get the gist of your unique ability." Aisha let out a long sigh. "It looks like there are too many questions that can't be answered."
"Indeed. There are only two ways to figure out the questions. The first one is to find out the answer through science, while the second method is to break free from this world.
"If this is a simulation world, there must be a way out there. Mara's gene is the reason I believe that method exists. In other words, Grandfather is not wrong. The closer we're to the truth, the higher our chance to escape from this simulation world," stated Clovis in disbelief.