156 I Want to Fight at Your Side
Hope was silent after hearing that.
G was conscious, but I hit a little harder than I thought. Once again I focused on his wounds and the time around him flowed backward. The pain, bruises and the wound on his shoulder faded away as if someone pushed a rewind button on G's body. Since the injury was worse and some time has already passed since It was done, It took longer to heal than Hayley's.
When I finished, G looked at his arm and moved it around, He was surprised that there were no traces of him being injured, no stiffness, no pain, not even blood beside the one that stained his shirt… it was like if nothing had ever happened to his arm.
Hayley was still shocked touching her arm trying to see if there was any sign of a scar but didn't find anything.
"It's amazing…"
"As long as the wound was made in the last ten minutes and you are not dead, I should be able to make it as it never happened, but after that time has ended, it's completely useless."
Because of this, I was unable to heal Zak, Johanna, or Ines…
Of course, besides the time, there are other limits to the ability. As far as I know, I can't regrow a lost limb, it might be possible to reattach it, but the time limit, in that case, is even shorter. The system didn't mention this, but I think that an extremely severe wound might also be out of the range of what I can heal, but I don't plan to test it.
Hayley looked back at me after she finished being surprised by the heal.
"So that's why you went all out on us, you knew that you could heal us back despite what happened."
I nodded, there was no way that I would injure any of them unless I had a way for them to recover, it would be stupid to weaken our group that way.
"Wait wait wait… did you said ONE of his new powers???"
G asked looking at Rose.
"Yes…"
"Bullsh*t… What else did he get this time…"
"F-Rank Mind reading, and E-Rank Enhanced Endurance."
Rose… at least try to resist.
There goes my intention of surprising them, luckily he didn't ask about the skills too… G looked at me completely flabbergasted… and Hayley was thinking about what she just heard.
"Enhanced Endurance… that's why you weren't hurt by Gerhard's attack?"
"I wouldn't say I wasn't hurt… but I didn't get killed on the spot thanks to that, I definitely prefer to avoid an attack like that every time … it hurt like hell even after I managed to block most of the damage."
That moment was really dangerous, the spear block didn't make much difference. I think it slowed down the attack a little, but it wasn't even worthy of mention.
Most of the attack was transferred to me anyway, instead of taking the attack head-on and hold my ground, I just went with, that was the reason why I was sent flying.
I have tough skin, damage resistance, Enhanced Endurance which basically boosts my Endurance in a 100% (25 max because it's an E-Rank Power) and my sixth sense kicked in any way… I knew that if I stood there, I would have been crushed and would have ended with more than just a bruise and a minor fracture on my arm like I did…
I was thankful for Pain resistance, I wouldn't have been able to be that calm otherwise.
It was getting late, and G wanted to clean himself after the training and go talk with Emma. I told him to play blackjack with her, and to tell me if he sees her playing solitaire.
G left the roof, and Hayley followed together with Hope.
I wasn't tired at all. Before I thought that after getting Enhanced Endurance, I was going to lose Enhanced Stamina since it was a lower tier sub-power of it, but instead it was absorbed, and I got a perk for it.
Low Self-Sustaining, it was a good ability for this situation. It didn't eliminate my needs, but I had an easier time resisting them. If before I needed to sleep 8 hours now I might be ok sleeping only 6, I can forget a meal and not notice it (like what happened today with my lunch), and there were some other stuff like holding my breath longer and not getting tired as fast.
I was thinking of keep training, but I noticed Rose eyes looking at me, and I knew that she wanted to ask me something.
"You know that you can just ask right?"
"Yeah but you seemed to be thinking about something, so I was waiting for you to finish… how are you adapting to your new powers?"
I thought about her question for a few seconds before answering.
"After the trip to Aurora clinic, I got so many new skills, abilities, and powers. It's difficult to get used to them, my speed, strength, resistance, pain resistance, everything got upgraded."
"So that's why you want to keep training? To get used to it?"
Sometimes she knows better than I know myself… that was probably on the back of my mind pushing me to keep training.
"Yeah, I need to get used to all of this before I make a mistake…" I sat on the floor and for the first time in a while I saw the sunset. Rose noticed that and sat at my side taking my hand.
"What did you really wanted to ask?"
She didn't answer right away but seemed to have taken a decision about something.
"…I want to learn to fight for real, so when the times come I can do something else besides telling you "Hey, a beast is coming…" for tomorrow's mission I know my role, and it's importance, but usually, it's not like that. With your senses and Dante in the group me being a scout is completely pointless in most cases, … it breaks my heart every time I see you fighting, getting hurt and not being able to do anything to help you… after I see that I have to just wait for you to come back and be at your side when you wake up in the hospital…"
She put her head on my shoulder as the last sunlight disappeared. I knew she was sad for the last times I fought outside.
Her voice was soft when she added the next part
"I want to fight at your side, I wish I got someone else's power… Hayley, Hope, my brother all of them can be there fighting with you… except for me…"
I thought for a moment about it, it would be hard to be in her position. I surrounded her with my arm to comfort her.
The truth was that without a suitable power it was difficult for her to be useful in a fight. Thanks to our link I could know how she felt, but I didn't know what I could do to help her…
"I can help you and train you to fight better, but being honest unless you power evolves, or somehow you manage to find a way for it to help you in fight… It is difficult to reach a point where you are safe in a large scale battle like the one we had against the farm beasts."
She didn't seem down by what I said, she knew it was true.
"I plan on doing that… I think that I might have found a way but if I know how to fight it will work better."
I was about to ask her what way was that, but I remembered that she couldn't lie… and if she wanted me to know she would have just said it. It was clear to me that she wanted to surprise me if she achieves it.
"Ok, do you have anything in mind?"
"I want to use knives."
"Which ones?" I was surprised by her choice, but since she wanted to use them, she must have her reasons.
I took out the pushing dagger and a balanced dagger that I have with me. I explained how both were used while she held the pushing dagger on her hand. She traced the form as she got used to it, she then did the same with the other one.
Most of the knives techniques that I used were from modifications from Krav Maga, so we practiced for a while. She already knew a little of Krav Maga, and thanks to this together with her intelligence and my Mentor Skill she was able to pick up the new movements faster than I expected. We trained for about an hour before I noticed that she was getting tired and finished her training.
…
After eating with the girls, we chatted for a while. G wasn't with us, he went with Emma for a while, and after eating something there, he went to sleep.
Everyone was talking with Isabella about her new powers and their days, Hayley seemed happy about going in the mission tomorrow, she spoke about her time in the hunting teams HQ, and how everyone was so friendly to her. Paws was on Rose arms, and she was tickling and playing with him.
Tomorrow was going to be a busy day for some of us, so we left early to sleep.
