52 Adios

"Who knows? I may be a girl...Or a man. Which one do you prefer?"

As if being struck by lightning, Luke's body went stiff as his face turned paler.

Luke then watched Aisyl retreated with his signature smirk. His violet eyes currently held many kinds of emotions such as playful, teasing, and many others he didn't know about. Looking at him now, Luke didn't know how to react. Is he really a girl? Or is he a man, as he stated?

Looking at the panic-stricken Luke's faces, Aisyl had a hard time to hold his laugh. Realizing Aisyl cheeks puffed out and seems trying hard not to laugh. Luke finally found his courage and scolded, "That joke wasn't funny!"

"Ahahaha..." Aisyl couldn't hold on anymore and immediately burst out laughing. After satisfying himself, Aisyl looked at the somewhat relief Luke before said teasingly, "I never said it was a joke though."

Witnessing Luke's face changed once more, Aisyl began to laugh again. Realizing that he's actually get played again, Luke said sarcastically as he grabbed Aisyl's cheeks and pinched it hard, "Haha, that was funny!"

After fooling around for a couple of minutes, they realize they were the only ones remained on the stadium seats. Exchanging glances, they then burst out laughing. Luke was the first one to recover, "Hey, let's go somewhere else. I don't want to get kicked out by the cleaner shortly later."

Aisyl nodded his head as they began to head out toward the exit gate. With the sky fully dark, Luke and Aisyl's journey were only accompanied by few lamps that planted along the way while occasionally the night winds brushed by. Since Aisyl seems in no mood to explain his statement before, Luke didn't force him to do so and just enjoyed the scenery throughout the walk.

"So, what kind of ability do you possess, Syl?" Luke asked after searching for a topic.

Aisyl turned toward Luke with a proud smile, "I'm telling you this because I trusted you enough. It's star-related ability." With that being said, Aisyl tapped his finger at the sky and moved it gracefully.

As Luke's attention immediately attracted to it, Aisyl suddenly spoke, "Look up!"

Following his request, Luke lifted his head and saw the cloud gradually moved along with Aisyl's finger movement. With a surprised tone, Luke said as he gazed at Aisyl's figure admirably, "Is this your work? It's so bizarre."

An ability that could affect weather? How powerful is that??

"Hehe, I'm not done yet." As he said, a yellow light starts shining below Aisyl's feet. In a moment, his body starts to be sustained in the air by a somewhat cloudy yellow thing. Before Luke can comment, Aisyl's body gets dragged by the cloudy thing and began floated across the sky at a swift speed.

In a blink of an eye, Luke could see Aisyl's figure no more and only catch a flicker of light streaked across the sky. This scene was visible to everyone's eyes who reside in LSA. Just then, Luke suddenly catch a laser beam targeting Aisyl. With a tone of panic, Luke shouted despite knowing his voice wouldn't reach Aisyl, "Watch out!"

Moving agilely, Aisyl dodging it with ease. Just as Luke about to heave a sigh of relief, three beams shot forth toward Aisyl's direction. This time, Aisyl were caught unprepared and had to receive one of the beams with his body. Like a bird losing one of his wings, Aisyl began to fall freely from the heights.

"Shit!" Luke cursed out loud and chanted "Control" immediately. Controlling his body with his own ability, Luke began floating above the air and approach Aisyl promptly. When their distance was close enough for Luke to cast his ability, Luke quickly cast "Control" at Aisyl's body to prevent him crash onto the ground.

With Aisyl in an injured state, Luke could now control Aisyl's body without many hindrances as he didn't have slight resistance toward his ability. With a pulling gesture, Luke pulled Aisyl's body to his own by control. As soon as Aisyl landed on his embrace, Luke quickly secured him and started deactivated his ability.

In conjunction with Luke's ability deactivated, both of them start descending rapidly toward the ground. As they were moving closer to the ground, the air pressure grew stronger. Being scratched by the fierce winds, even Aisyl who being hugged couldn't help but get uncomfortable due to it. As he opened his eyes, Aisyl's eyes went wide, and exclaimed. "How did you?"

How did Luke able to fly?

As if knowing his thought, Luke cleared his doubt, "I had a breakthrough on my ability a few days ago."

"Hold me tight. We're about to arrive!" Before Aisyl can respond, he heard Luke's warning.

Complying to his request obediently, Aisyl hooked his arm around Luke's neck. After verifying that Aisyl follows his order, Luke quickly activates the Time Manipulation when their body about to collide with the ground. At the moment, Aisyl sensed the surrounding air seems slowed down along with their advancement to the ground. Ignoring Aisyl's shocked gaze, Luke flipped their body around with Luke being at the top of Aisyl. With their faces facing each other, Luke slipped his hand on the side of Aisyl's neck and directed his hand over the ground. With the power of control, he promptly created an invisible wall to catch their bodies.

Success in creating the invisible wall, Luke and Aisyl crashed into the invisible wall a couple of seconds later. Along with their crashing, Luke felt a sharp pain transmitted on his head.

'It must be due to the FP I consumed; fortunately, we're landed safely.' Luke thought gratefully as the feeling of drowsiness slowly came by.

"Luke! Luke!" He heard Aisyl shout, but he's in no condition to respond because his vision gradually blackened.

...

When he wakes up, Luke found himself lying on the patient's bed whilst Aisyl resting his head upon the side of his bed. Massaging his throbbing forehead, Luke let out a hurt grunt. As soon as Luke emit a grunt, Anisyl ears perked up, and immediately went awoke. Noticing Luke already awake, Aisyl rammed his little fist at Luke's chest, "What are you thinking doing such dangerous action!"

Sensing no strength on the punch, Luke chuckled as he stared at the angry-chipmunk in front of him, "It's called the hero saves the beauty, are you touched?"

"Hmph! A little." Aisyl snorted before asked in concern, "Are you okay then? Which part of you get hurt?"

"I'm fine, just a bit dizzy due to my ability application. How about you? I witness you vividly got shot by a beam." Luke shudder at the imagination of that dreadful scene.

"Oh, I just got scratched a little by it." Aisyl shows the side of his clothes in which a noticeable burn mark was visible due to the torn clothes.

"Is it hurt?" Luke asked despite knowing the answer.

"Of course, but I got it treated immediately, and now it didn't hurt as much when it first appeared," Aisyl said reassuringly before suddenly spoke in a low voice. Still, Luke could see his eyes glittering in excitement, "Turns out the beams were from the defensive cannon stationed throughout the LSA. We were lucky enough to not getting hit by hundreds of beams due to our low altitude flying."

"Hundreds of beams??" Luke blurted out in shock.

Will his body still remains after getting strikes by those amounts? Even the swift Aisyl could only dodge a few of them. Wouldn't he become target-dummy??

"Yeah! By the way, we were called to the principal's office tomorrow." Aisyl said excitedly.

"Oh God!" Luke facepalmed himself as he already knows what's the reason behind their summons. He then noticed that Aisyl looks excited somehow even though their summons reason was probably not good, "What're you excited about? Is getting scolded really fun for you?"

"Yes! This is the first time I commit a crime, and I couldn't help but get excited over it." Aisyl said between his giggling.

Luke was speechless at his answer and decided not to comment on it. Grabbing his phone from the top of the drawer, Luke dialed Kuvar's number. The phone ringing for a few seconds before Kuvar's voice came from the other side, "Hello?"

"Var, I might not sleep on dormitory tonight," Luke speaks.

"Brother Luke! It's only been a month, and yet, you already sleepover at someone's places??? Don't tell me it's your girlfriend's dormitory? Spill it! How could you enter it without alarming the dormitory inspector!"

Being bombed by many questions from Kuvar make his head dizzier. Without explaining, Luke directly ended the call after saying goodbye, "Adios."