Testing Out

"You can return home."

Sighing internally, I turn my back to the man that just spoke to me with a relived expression.

I have become tired of all those people examining me from head to toe, constantly asking me a bunch of questions and testing my physical performances.

But having found nothing conclusive to explain my unordinary awakening, I was sent back home.

Standing in front of a wooden brown door, I ring the bell.

As I take a startled step back after hearing a symphony of loud footsteps coming my way, I hear the door unlock.

Immediately being engulfed whole, I feel a warm sensation spread across my body.

"Sweetie, I was so worried."

After I come out of my daze, I then return the hug to my mom while saying.

"Don't worry mom, I am fine."

Seeing as my dad draw closer, our eyes met.

"You had us really worried back there, when suddenly someone from the city's security said something happened to you."

Guilty for putting my parents through this, but at the same time happy to know someone was worried about me, I apologize.

"I am sorry."

Patting my head, he says with a comforting smile.

"Don't apologize, this isn't your fault. Moreover, as long as you're fine, we are already over the moon."

Now reassured, we enter the house and sit around the table, I then start to tell them about what happened while we eat.

After revealing them the course of events and seeing their anxious expression through my story, I feel a certain warmness fill up my chest.

Once finished, I could finally return to my room in peace.

'Phew…at long last, I am alone.'

With now every annoying thing left behind, I can ultimately test out my new hard-earned ability.

Closing my eyes, I take a few minutes to perceive the flow of space-time.

As I feel it being pushed down toward the ground, I know I am in the right track.

Moving through the room to discern the flow more clearly, I come to some conclusions.

First of all, my perception limit is roughly 30 centimeters all around me.

Secondly, at my current level, I can only feel the general direction of the flow.

It mean, I only know where certain objects are but not their shape or their look.

Satisfied with my experiments' result, I pass onto the next step.

Rushing out of my room, I excitedly run toward the bathroom.

I take out a scale before returning to my experiments.

Standing atop the scale in the middle of the room, I extend my finger and gently pull on the fabric of space-time, only for it to slightly straighten its curve.

Feeling myself lighter, I look down to see the scale's measurement.

The result was me weighting about half my original weight.

'Wonderful.'

Exalted and wanting more, I try to further straighten the steady flow continuously pushing matter down.

As I feel my feet leaving the ground, I take a comical posture with my fist raised high toward the sky.

Being in the mood, I jokingly said .

"I can fl…ugh."

'Totally worth it.' I thought as I felt my legs turn numb.

Frustrated for having crashed down after floating only a few seconds, I assured myself.

'Maybe not now, but soon.'

Exhausted after spending all that energy, my body take some minute to absorb the surrounding light and heat.

With my stamina now replenished, I enter a meditative pose.

'I shouldn't waste free energy.'

Being at a low life level, energy absorption require some amount of stress to be activated automatically as a last defensive mechanism by the body.

In later ranks, by using various energy absorption techniques, the super can then manually draw up energy whenever he want.

After being done meditating and having rested enough, I start to ponder about the different usage of my ability.

'If I can pull and push space around, I should be able to imitate my presumed ability 'force control' by using a kind of gravity manipulation.'

Spotting a book not far away, I start to focus on the space around it.

Feeling its mass affect the flow of space-time in all directions, I use the web-like fabric to pull it toward me.

As I prearrange its course through time, the book starts to float while facing my hand.

'Perfect.'

I thought as I caught it mid-air.

Thrilled, I try with different items laying around my room to get the hang of it until I am satisfied enough with my proficiency.

Twenty minute later…

Seeing as a TV remote previously placed on the shelf make a beautifully traced curve in direction of my hand, I nod with a prideful expression.

'Now for the highlight of the show.'

Ready, I close my eyes as I sense the disturbance emitted by mass.

With a soft push of my hand, all the items around me start to float in the air and begin to regain their original position.

'Ta-da!'

Completely drained and feeling my eyelids get as heavy as a mountain, I lay on my bed and close my eyes to take a little nap.

'Fortunately, I didn't waste a lifetime of researches for nothing. This ability's potential is endless…'

This was my last thought before I started drifting in direction of dreamland, a joyful smile speared across my lips.