Chapter 108: The Awakening
I made my way back to the bedroom where everyone was waiting for me. Today is the last day we’d be here since I finished my training with Alarion.
As I opened the door to the room I saw Ghost just standing silent in the middle of the room, almost like she was powered off completely.
"Um... What’s going on with Ghost?" I ask with a bit of concern in my voice.
"She’s been like that for a few hours now, I don’t really know what’s going on." Lilly responds with a bit of worry in her voice as well.
Aria stands up to investigate what’s going on with Ghost as well. "I believe that her awakening is happening right now." Aria says while observing her a bit more closely.
Awakenings are probably different for everyone so I guess this could be a completely normal reaction. I’m just curious what she might be awakening or what kind of powers she’ll have.
Or perhaps the talent itself might be insanely strong for her to have. The possibilities are endless with the way our world is.
A cyborg awakening is definitely something different from what anyone would expect.
You’re telling me. This is huge for her and I don’t really know what to do right now.
Your best bet is to let it play out, awakenings don’t usually take long for most people. Based on the energy she’s giving off, I’d say she is going to be an even bigger help after all.
I really need to get better at reading these aura’s that you’re talking about since I haven’t really noticed them much yet.
A shift suddenly occurred in the air, something felt completely different. Almost as if something was in the room staring back at us.
I continue to observe ghost until I notice a strange pale blue outline of her hovering above her body. Her eyes were glowing bright as she slowly turned her head towards me.
"G-Ghost?" I call out her name with a bit of hesitation at first.
Everything felt as if it was quiet around me for a few moments but then I finally saw her lips beginning to move.
"Rokuro... This feels different. I think this is that awakening." Ghost replies while looking down at her arms.
"Do you know what that is? The reason you look like that?" I ask with a mix of curiosity and concern in my voice.
She takes a few glances down at her arms, then her legs, and finally back up at me. "Something is telling me that it’s known as the Spectral Dominion. I don’t fully understand it yet but it feels intense." Ghost answers as she moves closer to her body.
As she touches her body the feeling disappears as if everything was back to normal. Everything boots back up as her eyes light up like normal.
"I’ll have to learn how to use that but it felt pretty easy to go into." Ghost says softly while opening and closing her hands.
Spectral Dominion. That sounds quite interesting for a cyborg to be given, I’m sure we’ll see what it is capable of soon enough.
Spectral alone already tells us quite a bit about her new power. She kind of reminded me of an actual spirit at that point in time.
Maybe she’ll be able to use that in actual combat but I’m not sure if it’ll be deadly to her normal body or not. I don’t want her to be putting herself in danger to use that power either.
"I’ll help you learn how to use your power." Aria speaks up with a bit of excitement in her voice.
"I appreciate it Aria. I’m definitely not opposed to the help." Ghost replies with a bit of a cheerful tone.
"I’m glad everyone is getting along. Let’s get everything ready to go." I say with a bit of relief.
Them all getting along with one another is definitely good to see but I’m not sure what awaits us after this. I still need to awaken my power more than this.
Becoming an SSS rank is going to be a pretty big deal for me regardless of what I get it use the power for. The goal is to find that asshole of a star and to kill it.
Not sure if that’ll fix anything or not but I’m going to hope that it can do something.
"We don’t really have much to pack or anything. We never brought much to begin with. Haha." Lilly chimes in with a chuckle afterwards.
Huh, I guess we didn’t bring anything did we? We originally came up here as a favor to Lucien but nothing really happened up here. Everything ended up perfectly fine so there was no need to present the letter or anything.
What do I do with the letter? He did give me one didn’t he?
I check my pockets for it since that was the last place I had it but there was nothing in any of them. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed it was laying in the dresser across the room.
Without wasting a second I went over to grab it and opened it up. The letter inside was completely blank with nothing to explain why we came up here.
That asshole really sent us up here with hopes of us just figuring it out for him?!?! God damnit I really hate doing shit like this for people when they could’ve just did it themselves.
You wouldn’t have gotten any training or even your newest companion if you didn’t come up here.
That’s a very valid point but I’m still pissed off that he didn’t give us anything useful to bring up here. It was basically a gamble for him to see if anything would happen from us coming up here or not.
Rokuro you were the one who gained the most from it though so don’t worry about it too much.
A lot was gained from this adventure up here. Shit.
"Everyone ready to go?" I ask while turning back around to face them.
They all have a simple nod to me, it was time to leave the city.