The next day, Zac was medically cleared to leave the hospital after 24 hours with no signs of trouble. After being released, he put on the clothes his sister had brought for him and left the hospital with Amy.
On his way out of the building, Zac saw dozens of people in his path, seeing the private parts of each of them in the strange situation he was in now.
As interesting as such an ability might be for some teenagers like him, it wasn't a fascinating ability to have. Most of the people around were overweight or old...
He tried to walk beside his sister and ignore what was happening, but his expression of disgust could not be hidden.
"Zac, I know you must feel sick. But we're going home, and I will take care of you for the rest of the day." Amy said as she smiled at him.
Despite all the problems in their lives, she always smiled at her little brother and tried to be the strong side he needed.
"I don't know if that's such a good idea..." Zac muttered as he looked down.
"Don't think about it. You have to go back to school tomorrow. Stay home and rest for today. It'll be good for you not to get into trouble again." She said with a sigh.
He looked into his sister's eyes and felt that this had something to do with how he had ended up in this hospital. "What happened? I can't remember anything from the last three days."
She avoided looking into his eyes and said. "Good. Maybe you shouldn't remember."
Zac stopped in the middle of the street they were on and grabbed the arm of his sister, the only family he had after his parents died in an accident 8 years ago.
"I need to know. What happened to me wasn't normal... I... I ended up in the hospital!"
He hesitated for a moment, almost saying what he was going through. But his sister would think he'd gone crazy if he told the truth, so Zac kept what he saw to himself.
Still, he had suddenly gained powers, which should only be possible in fantasies and movies.
Or was he really crazy?
He had no other way to explain what he was feeling, so he was sure that he had suddenly gained a nasty ability!
Amy closed her eyes and sighed, "I'll just tell you this. I found you passed out on our doorstep three days ago. You were dressed in your school uniform and covered in blood...
Luckily, Kai saw you and warned me to get you to the hospital in time. You might have joined our parents if I'd waited five minutes longer." She said what she had heard from the doctors the day she had brought her brother to the hospital.
"Kai?" Zac's expression changed as he saw the picture of Amy's loan shark boyfriend in his mind.
Amy knew that Zac didn't like Kai, with good reason, of course. Kai was not only a violent person but also involved in illegal things, but also things that not even Zac knew about...
Amy ignored this and said. "That's what happened. If you don't remember anything else, you'd better forget it. Walk carefully, and don't mess with the kids at school. You should be fine if you stay under the radar for a while, Zac." She touched his cheek, trying to make her little brother understand.
Zac clenched his fists, not thinking it was enough. But he knew Amy wouldn't tell him anything more, so he changed the subject. "What about the hospital bill? How are we going to pay that?"
"I'll manage. Don't worry." She walked in front of him while he watched her, not looking at her private parts, of course.
A basic hospital bill in his country could take more than a year's savings from a family like his. But he and his sister were living on the edge of what Amy could work, so they certainly couldn't afford a hospital bill like the one they'd had for the last three days.
"Are you really going? You're not going to ask that bastard for help, are you?" He ran after her, speaking in a thicker tone.
"Zac, you don't have to get involved. I'll do whatever it takes. Or do you want to lose your name, too? I already have a bad reputation. I can't risk yours too." She said a little harder.
As much as she loved her brother, Zac was stubborn about certain things.
"I can quit school and get a job."
"No!" She shouted as she grabbed one of his fists. "Zac, trust me. I'll tell you if I can't do something and you have to. Until then, obey me and focus on your studies." She tried to smile at him.
"If all goes well, you can change your life and solve our problems in less than 10 years, little brother. But until then, you have to give up certain things, or we'll never get anywhere."
Zac was a dedicated student at the top of his class. Because of his passion for learning, Amy hoped he could one day become a doctor and lift himself out of poverty.
She was willing to do anything to help him reach his potential, including sacrificing herself!
Zac knew that his sister would do anything for him and only regretted not being able to help her.
...
Arriving home after an hour's drive between the hospital and the part of the city where they lived, Zac went to bed while Amy went to prepare something for him to eat.
On the way there, Zac ignored at least 500 people and regretted at least 50 times what had changed in him after he woke from his unconscious state.
But as a nerd who had read a lot of comics, Zac soon thought that perhaps his obscene power could be trained.
Lying alone in his bed in the room he shared with his sister, he tried to test his power by looking out the window overlooking the street in front of the building where he lived.
After a few minutes of seeing old people, children, young and middle-aged people coming and going, he began to feel a headache similar to the one he had experienced before, but no progress with his vision problem.
While he was doing this, he couldn't help but notice that the household appliances in his house were suddenly turning on and off while he was trying to practice.
He didn't notice it right away, but as he became frustrated with his inability to stop seeing naked people, he detected the annoying flashing light that seemed to be following him since the hospital.
'Could it be that my special power isn't just about seeing naked people?' He wondered as he tried to think of something he could try to test his abilities.
But almost everything he could think of seemed very dangerous and with drastic consequences. He didn't know what could happen to his test objects or his body.
He didn't want to hurt himself, but he also didn't want to risk the integrity of the few household appliances he and his sister had.
He tried using his smartphone to search the Internet for information on what to do, but his device wasn't working. Realizing the problem, he looked at the many books scattered around his small room and quickly found the physics textbook, one of his favorites.