Death is All I see (2)

2 days later. A busy intersection, a different part of the metropolitan city Kata. 12 in the afternoon.

Hundreds of people crossing the road did little to hinder Andrew who activated his second technique.

"Aj. Everything."

Aj- The power to have absolute control over the present time. Andrew had polished this skill so much that he could now easily stop the entire world's time whenever he desired.

Everyone,the birds, the people, the cars and buses, everything stopped motionless.

Andrew then sat down on the road in the middle of this busy street and began to cultivate his Jenna, the inner qi that flows inside his body.

Jenna was the power that allowed Andrew to tap into time. Ever since he was a child, he had been condensing his Jenna and accumulating his strength.

Currently, Andrew's physical body is eighteen years old. However his mind is more than twenty five years old.

"Kal, I still can't properly use this samay art on myself."

He has managed to achieve the fifth stage in his time cultivation, Kal, but he's struggling to properly use it on his own body.

Kal- The fifth stage allows him to fast forward time on any object he chooses.

But Kal is limited to only an hour, just like his third technique- Goto, which allows him to reverse time of any object with a max duration of one hour. And that is why Andrew is, as of yet, unable to use Kal to return back to the future, meaning he's stuck in the past.

"Six years…that's the longest I've gone back in time." Andrew focused on his Jenna circuits inside his body and circulated the Jenna like his natural blood.

"Kal is still too unstable. I can't use it yet to return to the future. My mind feels blank whenever I use it for more than a minute."

Momentarily, Andrew recalled the blue haired man's face.

"If only I could have mastered Kal earlier…I would have been able to stop him.."

If he had the power to go to the future, Andrew would have been able to see all events and then take actions in the past accordingly.

But Andrew quickly dismissed such thoughts.

A cheating woman would cheat either way. He learned it the hard way but now he's unwilling to trust any girl anymore.

"The sixth stage…"

Andrew predicts that he'll be able to return to the future if he reaches the next domain in his samay arts.

Thus, Andrew fully immersed himself in his cultivation and focused on enhancing his Jenna.

Until, finally, he decided to get up and stretch his legs.

"Goto. Everything." Andrew started to walk amidst the crowd of people in the intersection.

And then, everyone started to walk backwards, except for Andrew who kept walking forward.

Andrew had no direction in mind, but he kept walking, thinking nothing in particular.

"Raaaaawwwerrr", Suddenly an enormous white colored beast, over 100 feet tall, shaped like a humanoid monster teared itself out from the sky.

It jumped down on the multiple cars jammed up on the road, destroying them in an instant and then thrust its eight clawed hands towards Andrew.

"Aj."

The beast's large body stopped before it could reach Andrew's skin.

"Goto."

And then the beast was thrown back up in the sky, back into the space time distortion it came out of.

All the destroyed property was reverted back to their original state, the dead people revived in an instant.

Andrew kept walking forward nonchalantly. There was not a hint of hesitation, fear, sadness, or distraction in his uncaring face.

"I'm tired of those space monsters." Andrew lulled about his boring life.

Andrew inhaled deeply and raised one of his legs up.

"Aj."

His leg became motionless in the air, and he used it to raise his body.

"Aj. Aj. Aj.."

Then he began to walk up the air as if there was an invisible staircase helping him climb.

After climbing up to a height of over 100 meters, Andrew looked down at the city and finally exhaled.

He then sat down in the air and looked down at the city.

"Kal. Everything." Andrew began to practice his fifth technique.

The city under him began to move at a fast forwarded speed. The speed was exactly how Andrew wanted it to be. Just enough so that everything appeared blurry and non-existent.

"Grandma, grandpa… I miss you…" Andrew felt depressed as he saw the time pass.

Andrew, afterall, is not originally from this world. In his previous life he was a kid without parents, and he grew up in the love of his grandparents.

But at the age of eighteen, his grandparents died of old age, leaving him all alone in the world. Soon, he too succumbed to a deadly disease and died at the tender age of twenty.

When he opened his eyes again, he was on a planet called Earth, born as the son of a middle class family in a metropolitan city named Kata.

"Earth sucks…" He gazed down at the people living mundane lives.

He had been trying really hard to learn about his previous life, but he had still not gained any clues. The only remaining legacy of his grandparents is his memory which he has kept preserved with his first Samay Art technique Mon.

Mon- It allows Andrew to extract, plant or tamper with a memory of any thing if he imbues it with his Jenna.

Andrew used the technique first on himself, the moment he gained consciousness after his birth, and retained all his past life's memories.

"No one really cares what happens to others…"

Andrew's head slowly started to become blank and dizzy.

"Stop Kal." He stood up.

He then looked up at the hot afternoon sun tanning his skin and scoffed.

"Well whatever…"

Andrew decided to go back home, to his new family, and take a nap.

He jumped down from the sky, head first, and closed his eyes.

"Kal. Myself."

His skydiving body sped up instantly, and he plunged towards the ground at breakneck speed.