13. Just A Casual Stroll.

Time kept passing, and soon a week passed, while the spring was approaching, decreasing the night time and also Nich's valuable sleep time.

During this time, Nich's grandparents were both shifted to the city hospital, while grandma stayed at home.

Grandma is nice.

Grandma always wore a smile when she talked to the siblings, she was kind and loving.

Not as cheerful as before, but she still nonetheless kept a strong front.

She lived in the house, and would often visit grandpa at least once a day.

While the time passesed, Nich made some new discoverirs about his powers.

For example, the strange the liquid, or maybe gas... It's state was indiscernible.

But the energy seemed omnipresent.

It only seemed though, because Nich only meditated in his room, that too in the middle of the night.

Nich did not like explaining things, and if someone were to ask him why was he suddenly acting spiritual he would have to make up a lie.

Also, it's not like his lies will really even work, not on his parents at least.

Maybe he can fool Alice.

Definitely.

Ahem, back to the topic.

When Nich focused deeply while meditating, he felt that there was really small amount of energy leaving and entering his body every time he breathe, when he focused more he felt that there were small, dust like particals.

These particals entered his body through his respiratory organs, dissolving into his bloodstream.

As for where exactly the origin of leaving particals origin was... Nich had no clue, they almost felt like they were appearing out of thin air, almost, but Nich could sense that there was a deep origin to them.

He was just incapable of grasping it.

And he has also noticed that, when he mediated in night, the amount of energy he would receive was immense compared to the day.

Nich coated his hands in frost, and then he wanted to punch something, someone.

But remembering how the serpent, which would easily be at least 9 times larger than his house froze up, deciding against it.

It would not be a good thing if everyone in the house froze.

Actually, if people in their neighborhood also froze that would be a bigger problem.

Another thing to note, would be his muscles. He did not have any before, now he seemed to have some.

It was strange though, it's only been about 3 weeks since he had the dream and yet his life was vastly different now.

But one particular change was more intriguing than even the strange powers he had gained, which was his mental state.

Nich felt calmer, more fulfilled or one can even say more alive now.

There was a change in his emotions as well, he could feel them just as much as he did before, but now he felt more control over them than ever.

At first Nich thought that this was just his natural state of mind, it was all due that damn headache that he had not felt this way before.

But he soon realized that the change felt much more profound and meaningful.

So the next conclusion would be his stats.

His intelligence stat was S rank, which meant that it should be extraordinary, which can explain why he was able to remain so calm under situations where he would otherwise be panicking.

But Nich was uncertain about one thing.

'How does the power system work?'

From F to SSS? But then if that was the case, why did he start from not even D but C directly?

Also, he had no doubt that SSS should be at least a high rank, but if that was the case why did he get it?

All he did was, *bam* throw a punch and he got it?

That sounds slightly absurd, well of course not like he will tell it to someone else.

That lead him to believe, that many A might stand for average.

There was not many avidence for his speculation, but as far as he was before this 'inheriting' he would be considered below average.

'But i wasn't really able to manifest ice before.'

Which left only questions, and there were no answers in sight.

There were some trivial things, as well, like the news of the incident.

Fortunately, as people quickly grow bored from hearing the same news over and over, or anything for that matter, the news was dying down.

But unfortunately, the news was more twisted now.

Apparently he was a 10 year old now.

Shaking his head, Nich focused on the issue at hand.

In his hand, the ice clueter formed, before he could only do so much as to form them partially, but now his palm was completely covered with it.

'I want to test it.'

Nich thought.

Sneaking out of the house at this time of the night was, slightly difficult.

But the brave are remembered, so he will try.

Nich opened the cupboard, took out the key then with slow and almost inaudible footsteps walked downstairs.

He can see in the dark, so it's fine.

The dark, which haunted him from a young age, due to an incident that was of the past no longer felt so bad.

Nich's mood turned somber, remembering something he shouldn't have.

Walking slowly, he reached the door, inserted the key and then left.

The sound it produced would be negligible and soon disolved into the atmosphere.

Nich walked out of the house, into their backyard.

Opening the front door will make noise and grab attention.

The backside area of their house was not that lively even in the day, and people would rather avoid it in the night.

Nich skillfully lept across the wall, then jumped down, which did made a little noise but at this distance no one from his house would hear at least.

All around him, lights were off except the street lights, there was no source of light.

Nich walked slowly, and steadily.

Soon he reached a road, which was far from his home.

The moon was beautiful tonight, so he admired it for the most part, taking a stroll.

'Strange.'

Nich thought.

He was alone, in a desolate area where no one he knew lived, away from his family in the middle of the night.

But his mind was calm as a lake, as if there was no such thing as fear to him.

'where should i go now?'

He decided he should go out.

Now he was out. Out of plan as well.

'What can i test my ability with?'

While he was wondering, he heard the sound of an engine.

Turning around, he saw two lights, that looked like a pair of eyes approaching at stunning speed.

The figure of the car that was approaching him became more clear by the second, and more alarming as well.

The car was headed straight at him, not really showing any signs of stopping or considering taking a turn.

'Should i move?'

Nich considered, but at the current speed of the car he will most likely get crashed regardless of which direction he moved towards.

'No choice.'

Nich decided, to use his powers.

Forming a fist, Nich threw a punch at the car.

The time seemed to freez while his fist approached the car the car approached Nich as well.

*bamm*

The Collison reverberated, making a loud noise, while a dent appeared on it's bonnet.

Then, the car that was approaching stopped.

Nich stopped as well.

There was an unnerving silence, then Nich moved, walking slowly but steadily and soon he disappeared out of veiw.

The door to the car opened, and a middle aged man walked out, completely drunk.

Struggling to stand still, he looked towards the darkness direction Nich headed, not believing what happened.

A few moments passed, as he stood outside only when the cold breezes flew past him did he came back to his senses.

Getting inside the car, he tired to start it several times but to no avail.

"Damn it! Everything is going bad today!"

Cursing, he walked towards the bonnet of the car.

When he first put his hands on it, it felt really cold.

Then, trying again he opened it.

"What... The...fu*k?!"

The man exclaimed, as the whole engine of the car was frozen, even the tires were glued to the ground.

"This... "