Testing His Powers

"Son, can you help me?!"

Hugo immediately ran outside as he heard a familiar voice. When he got outside, he saw his father carrying multiple bags of groceries.

He frowned, "Where did you get these, Father?" he questioned, feeling confused because as far as he can remember, they do not have enough money to buy this much food.

Hitano chuckled. The man tilted his head before placing his hands on Hugo's hair, slightly messing it up.

"My boss gave me some money! He told me that I was working too hard these past few months." Hitano proudly answered his son's question. "It was not much, but this could last us for weeks already."

Hugo nodded as he took the plastic bags in his father's hand.

Hitano's forehead creased as he tried to take back some bags from Hugo's hands. "That's too heavy for you, Son!" he scolded him.

Looking at his hands, Hugo's brows formed a line. 'This is heavy?' The man murmured. He glanced over at his father and do what exactly what he was told.

He gave some of the bags to his father, although there were still more on his hands. When his father went inside their house, he tried raising the bags mid-air.

"Why can't I feel anything then? Like there's weight, but not that much."

Looking at it puzzled, the man placed the groceries on the floor and stared at his hands, amusingly.

'Is this one of my powers?' He couldn't help but smile at that question.

He picked up the bags again from the floor and take them inside where his father was currently waiting for him.

"I told you that they are heavy!" Hitano shook his head and helped his son.

Hugo just nodded in silence. He didn't bother to correct what his father had said.

When he looked at the clock, he saw that it was still early in the morning. Their classes were suspended because of the same meeting from yesterday.

Hugo already knows that the meeting was for the rankings of the students in the school. As he recalled, the rankings will be implemented next next week. And the classes will be suspended until tomorrow to give time for them to decide whether they would pursue that idea or not.

Since he has nothing to do, he decided to try the limitations of his powers.

He wanted to test how many times can he read the minds of the people around him and how far can he stop the time until he got tired. And in order to do that, he tried using his powers against his family.

Starting from his father.

Hugo looked at his father from a distance. He fixed his focus until he achieved what he wanted.

'I should cook a delicious dinner for my family later. They didn't know that I got promoted at my work! Even though I wanted to keep it a secret to surprise them next month, we should still celebrate today.'

Hugo was surprised to know his father's thoughts. He didn't know anything about his father's promotion back then! Maybe his father didn't have the opportunity to say it to them because he got fired.

'That must have been heartbreaking for my father,' Hugo thought as he looked at how happy his father was.

He already made up his mind. He would help his father to stay on his job as he tried to look for ways about how he can get close to Julius. With his current standing right now, he wouldn't have the chance to even meet the man by himself.

He was just a mere college student.

Hugo moved forward and tried to read what was in his sister's mind as well. He tried it multiple times again until his body got tired.

The man held onto the table as he felt his vision going circles. 'I just used my mind read power for 6 times and I'm tired already' he unbelievably said.

He could use it again for 1 more time, but he already knows that his body will give up if he does it.

"Are you alright, Son?" Hugo was surprised when his father suddenly spoke on his side.

Hugo nodded. He noticed that his father had already changed into his sleeping clothes.

"Sleep well, Father."

Hitano smiled as he wiped his hands. "Wake me up once your mother comes back." THe patted Hugo's head before going inside the room.

"Alright," Hugo answered.

Hitano works at night while Verda was the one working in the morning. Since their father was still alive, their mother still doesn't need to work 2 jobs every day.

The two agreed on that term so they could look at their youngest daughter, who was still 7 years old at the time.

Thinking of it, they weren't really that poor. Their downfall just started when their father died.

When Hugo had the strength to stand up, he immediately went in his sister's direction and played with her for a while.

"Brother, I want to take a nap," Hailey pouted her lips as she scratched the back of her head.

Hugo nodded and accompanied her sister to their parent's room. The little girl was sleeping on the floor, while their parents were the ones staying in the bed.

"You can already leave now, brother," Hailey smiled as she went near to his brother to give the man a kiss on his cheeks.

Hugo nodded and smiled back at his sister. He waved his hands before leaving the room to go into his own.

As Hugo sat on his bed, his phone suddenly beeped. When he checked it, it was a message from an unknown number.

'Don't tell me this is a message from those scams again telling me that they need money or those people that will say I won $1 million from a raffle, even though I didn't join one.'

Hugo took a deep sigh before opening the message. Yet, his eyes instantly widened when he saw that it wasn't about the scam or a $1 million prize.

[Unknown Number: Hello, you got accepted as a tutor for my daughter. You can start tomorrow. I will send our full address once you reply to this message.]

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Author's Note- As you can see, Hugo has still limitations when using his powers, but who knows what might happen in the future? *winks