A soft whisper awakened me. I noticed that Rose awaken too, but was too embarrassed to move away.
"Should we wake them up? I can't take his vitals if he is cuddling with his girlfriend, but if he is doing that he should be better than yesterday." An unknown voice said.
"I think he is fine, probably awakened last night and made Rose sleep at his side, you have to admit that the white glow made them look quite angelical while sleeping."
This was Hope's voice.
"Should we stay here or go?"
"We have to at least take his vitals to check that everything is alright, but his face has recovered color and looks healthier than yesterday."
CRASH!!
Rose and I jump on the bed and turn around to see what happened.
Everyone was looked at a table that G "casually" turned over.
I looked at the things on the floor, then G, and finally I noticed that I could move better than last night. It was not a miraculous recovery that allowed me to go and start fighting against half a dozen snakes like before, but I feel like I could do normal activities without problems.
"Sorry, my bad."
I could see him smiling.
Rose cheeks were bright red and left the bed and sat on another chair, her usual ponytail was disheveled, but I'm not going to tell her, she would just be more embarrassed than before, even with her cheek red she never let my hand go after all it was part of my treatment, best treatment ever thou.
When Rose left my side, the white glow became dimmer than before. I looked at the door and saw G, Hope, Isabella and an old man that I didn't recognize. The old man (probably the Doctor) got near me and started to check my vitals and made a physical exam.
"You are much better than yesterday, Isabella will take a blood sample, may I ask what this black liquid in the cube is?"
"I think it was the poison, I wake up last night and spit it out, I started feeling better after that."
I showed him the spot on the blanket too.
When he saw it, he became worried and gave the order for me to change rooms right away.
I knew that the poison was harmless how do I explain it? 'Hey, don't worry I just got a power that makes people spit the poison and it became useless in contact with the air.' That doesn't seem right…
In the new room, Isabella took a blood sample and asked me a couple more questions about how I was feeling. Since I was better G went back to work. Hope decided to tease us for a while before leaving to the library.
Once I was alone with Rose, she came back to bed to treat me. The effect was better than when she was just taking my hand so probably I could get out by tomorrow if she stays at my side most of the time.
Without books, it was difficult to continue our beast evolution investigation. And there were 2 important things for me to think about anyway.
First, I have to use the evolution ticket. Most of the things from the system are painful when I activate them so I wasn't sure if it was right to use it in a hospital if I start screaming it would be total chaos.
'System how does the evolution ticket works?'
[The evolutions ticket is used on skills/abilities or perks. After using the ticket the targeted skill/ability/perk branches or evolve into a higher tiered one, this means that a new skill or the current skill became a higher tiered one]
'Can it be used to make an Esper ability go from E-Rank to D-Rank?'
[No, but if the user uses it on an existing esper ability it will create a new skill or evolve an existing one]
'Can I choose the ability?'
[Yes, but the options are only available after you use the ticket]
Rose and I were sharing our thoughts, it had an interesting effect to speed up when we both think about something.
Time distortion was by far my best fighting ability so using evolution on it was the right choice, but we couldn't help but wonder what would happen if, for example, I use it on another skill like detox or soul resistance.
Will detox evolve and allow me to treat a soul poison or heal the damage from poison? Will soul or damage resistance make me immune or protect my mind? They might even become a shield and allow me to protect someone else. The possibilities were endless, but what if the options I get weren't as good as I was expecting? And even if they were was it worth it to trade it for my combat prowess?
This are good to protect the people I love, but my fighting style was already set, I had to strike before they can even attack us, so it was better to use it on a more direct fighting ability.
Rose agreed with my thought process… or it was her thought process, and I decided to go with it? I don't know who's idea was it, since we were both sharing thoughts when with both our minds working so fast it was difficult to differentiate the original owner of each idea or thought. We stopped sharing thoughts right away, being like that too long might be dangerous.
We looked at each other and smiled.
'Use the Evolution Ticket on Time Distortion'
[Evolution Ticket Used…]
[Choose]
[Evolve Time Bubble into Time Zone The area of effect of Time Zone is 10 times the area of Time bubble, there is no change in the other effects]
[Evolve Time Bubble into Enhanced Time Bubble, the user can choose the targets in the area of the skill]
[New Skill Chronokinetic Combat, the user can change the way the time flows on him and around him]
If I'm not wrong, I should be able to make a bubble 5 meter around me, which is enough to fight in close quarters, affecting a whole block was attractive especially with the info about the swamp beasts wanting to attack us, but affecting teammates was a huge drawback for the ability.
Now, what do I choose? Enhanced Time Bubble (ETB) or Chronokinetic Combat.
ETB was pretty self-explanatory, But Chronokinetic Combat was not that clear to me yet.
'System how does Chronokinetic Combat works?'
[In the user current state, he can use two abilities to apply in combat, slow is a single target ability that allows the user to change the flow of time in just one objective making him move slower than the normal. The user can also use Accelerated Thought, which speeds up the brain perception and the user can see everything around in slow motion, the only part that is accelerated is the brain, so the user also moves like if he was in slow motion] I nodded to myself while thinking on the two options.
I explained to Rose the options I had and how they worked. If I got a new ticket ETB might become Enhanced Time Zone, and that would be insane, but I might not even get another ticket again. On the other side, there were still things about Chronokinetic Combat that we don't know, like the range and the time that the slow down works. But it was probably related to the fact that it can change with practice.
I noticed that Time distortion was different from my other abilities and it was closer to the rest of my friends when I just started using it the area was a lot less than now.
This was the reason that the system said in the current user state. In the future, as I level up the ability and become more proficient in controlling the flow of time, I will be able to do more stuff.
"So Chronokinetic Combat?" Rose asked me.
"Yes, I think it has more potential, also I can practice controlling the flow of time while I'm in bed."
"You are supposed to be resting!"
"Yeah I know…, but I can't, staying here doing nothing is already difficult enough. Give me something to bite in the case it's too painful."
I put a clean cloth on my mouth and clenched my teeth under Rose's worried gaze.
'Choose Chronokinetic Combat.'
Unlike other times the pain was not that hard, it was like a torrent of information like when you need to study hard for an exam that you forgot you had until the day before, that kind of a headache. The information deepened my knowledge on time bubble and made me understand other ways to apply it. Don't misunderstand it was painful but not at the level of other skills.
[Skill Obtained Chronokinetic Combat Lv. 1]