This choice: The Mastermind (intelligence increase, mind control, etc) • Go Back...Chapter #2The Mastermind (intelligence increase, mind contro by: NVR   Azu studied each option carefully, being her usual indecisive self like when she had to create character profiles for videogames. Each option had a nice thing and a bad thing, and even if she thought the app was just a simple gimmick the fact that it said it would take several days to complete was making the choice harder. But then she saw the supposed physical and mental profile and her eyes went wide with surprise and a bit of fear. How on earth did the app got all that information about her? Even if there was a lot of stuff that she didn't know about, the measurements she did know about were there, almost nailed exactly to the point it could not be an educated guess by any means.
Still, it couldn't be true, right? With renewed intrigue, Azu examined the offered presets, pretending the transformation could be real and unsurprisingly, finding just further indecision. The descriptions were interesting but vague, and promised little degree of control about the supposed transformations. If she picked wrong and this was real, things could go very wrong.
For example, the predator looked like it could give her super hero muscles, like on those comic books she loved, but also, wouldn't be that too noticeable? wouldn't she become a freak as a result? The weapon of mass consumption also seemed like fun, the ability to control your weight, if she would be able to distribute it at will, sounded like the potential ability to acquire a dream body. But the details were so vague she was fearing either becoming just a huge blob instead, or according to the assertion that her appetite would never run out, becoming hungry all the time to the point she would be a burden to her family if she depleted everything in the kitchen only to need even more.
Then there was the Goddess of Beauty, which sounded like the straightforward option, but Azu had her doubts. It just sounded shallow, and it could change her life for the worse. Even if it wasn't her domain of interest, she knew enough about the dangers of fame, about the downsides of being too pretty, about how being so beautiful as the option promised could lead to harassment, to not being able to enjoy her peaceful life of nerdy hobbies, among other undesirable effects. And after all, her dream body was closer to the predator option than to this.
And then there was the mastermind, in practice the least appealing of it all, but the more Azu read it, the more it started to grow on her. No appearance change meant the tradeoff from the other three options just wasn't there, or at least it wouldn't be as noticeable to put her in trouble, and while the preset promised frankly ridiculous things like becoming some sort of God, the vagueness only made things more intriguing. What exactly would she be able to win with this? Getting smarter? Gaining some mental related power like mind control or even stuff like telekinesis? becoming like those people she saw once on a TV show that had unique skills like the ability to solve crazy math operations quickly?
Try as she might, she didn't find a fatal flaw with choosing the mastermind. The worst she could think about was having her behavior change, but she wasn't exactly a fan of her weak willed and shy self anyway. Azu closed her eyes and finally decided to press on the Mastermind option. What happened next made her roll her eyes and chuckle, reminding herself to not take things so seriously. A generic message thanking her for choosing the option and telling her to get ready to become what she always dreamed, nothing more, nothing else. No further options, no ability to go back to the main menu, only an exit button. All the confirmation she needed to know this was a silly gimmick app.
"Well, I won't be getting back those minutes" Azu laughed and tried to uninstall the app, but to her frustration the option was disabled for some reason. "Whatever, I'll do it later" she shrugged and left the phone on her desk, turning her focus to that anime series she planned on catching up to before the gimmick app message appeared. And maybe later she could clean her room and try using a to do list to made her September more productive.. But that would be later.
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