Chapter 245: Worries ; Properties ; Spar (1/2)
---3rd POV---
”Leader, what happened back there?” a young brown-haired girl hurriedly asks a downtrodden black-haired woman.
After a few seconds of staring at the ground, the black-haired woman lets out a sigh and asks, ”You saw it didn't you? Something was protecting Hermit.”
As a response to her words, the brown-haired girl, as well as the rest of the girls, present nod their heads with serious looks on their faces.
”Do you think that was a spirit?” the black-haired woman dubiously asks.
”No way,” the brown-haired girl responds, ”There was no space quake and there was no information from the headquarters regarding another spirit appearing.”
”I agree with Mikie,” a golden-haired girl adds, ”If that was a spirit, our equipment would've detected it.”
Hearing their responses, the black-haired woman lets out another sigh and says, ”Hermit's protector seemed to be a high schooler. He wasn't equipped with realizers, yet he was capable of flight. How do you explain that?”
Silence ensues as each of the girls present, apart from Origami, cast a glance at one another with puzzled looks on their faces.
”Anyway,” the black-haired woman continues, ”I'm going to relay this matter to headquarters. Perhaps, they would know what's going on.”
---1st POV---
”Thank you for arriving here at the time I specified,” I say while gazing at Tohka who is smiling while standing in front of me with her face covered by a red hue.
”Come here,” I say while patting a part of the bed right now to where I am sitting.
Doing as I instructed her to, Tohka sits down beside me before gazing at me with a curious look on her face.
”Tohka, do you know what has happened to your powers?” I ask while squinting my eyes.
”My powers?” she mutters before shaking her head and saying, ”I don't know. Ever since that…”
Her words trail off as she lowers her head and the red hue on her face reddens even further.
”It's my fault,” I directly state, startling Tohka as she looks up at me with a befuddled expression.
”After we had our first kiss, your powers got sealed by none other than me.”
”Why are you telling me this?” Tohka asks while slightly tilting her head.
”Because I would like to try something out,” I respond, ”I recall you using a giant sword to battle against the AST.”
”I don't know what Ay-Es-Teeu is, but I did use a sword. Its name is Sandalphon.”
”Can you use that sword now?” I inquire.
”No,” she says before extending her arm forward, ”Nothing happens, even when-”
Tohka's words get cut off as bright shines from her palm, startling her by no small margin.
The next moment the light fades as Tohka jumps to her feet and examines her palm with a shocked look on her face.
”How?” she says, ”I tried to use it before, and it didn't work.”
Unfazed, I say, ”Try to use it again.”
Nodding her head, Tohka reaches her arm out once again with an expectant look in her eyes.
However, this time no light shined, resulting in a look of both confusion and disappointment to appear on Tohka's face.
”As I thought,” I say, ”The seal on your powers is directly related to my will.”
”What do you mean?” she inquires.
”It means that as long as I think it's fine, you can use your powers however you like.”
Hearing my words, Tohka nods her head understandingly.
Well, it's great that things turned out the way I was expecting them to be. The main reason I had expected something like this was because of Kotori's explanation regarding how Tohka's mental state regressing could result in the return of her powers.
No matter what, that's a rather vague 'property' of the sealing ability I now seem to possess.
So, I thought of exploring its other properties while hoping they would give me a fair grasp of the ability and not befuddle me any further.
”Tohka,” I say as a grin forms on my lips, ”Would you like to fight me?”
”What?”
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”Wow!” Tohka exclaims as she excitedly looks around at the buildings and skyscrapers, ”Where are we?”
”In another world,” I randomly respond, ”How is it?”
”It's amazing,” she directly responds.
”Alright,” I say with a small smile on my lips, ”Let's get started now, shall we?”
Hearing my words, a slight frown forms on Tohka's face as she asks, ”Are we really going to fight?”
”Yes, we are. Now, activate your powers.”