After filling his stomach, Kiel and his parents thanked the doctor; the trio then went back on their way home.
Walking alongside his parents under the five indigo colored strange moons, filled him with a strange emotion. Even though he was still creeped out because of the moon but he now had an additional feeling -security, stability.
He was not that close to anyone in his previous life. Although he liked Emily and was even adopted with her, but he was still small at that time, and later it became more like a trauma to him. So he never felt like this with anyone. But now, he felt a special bond with his family in this life.
His most favourite mother, father, the two cute twin sisters and even the dere big sister. He felt for the very first time a familial bond in his life. Although he appeared cold and indifferent, he was still someone who lacked even the most basic of warmth.
As they returned home, what awaited them was the twins expectant and worried faces.
"Little brother !!" "Little brother are you alright??"
The two asked simultaneously, as they came running and hugged him tightly.
"There there, Kiel is alright. Now don't disturb him. He is still weak and needs to rest."
Hearing their mother's words, the two girls reluctantly left him, but still gave him sad looka with tearful eyes.
"Sistas don'th be sadh. I will play youl favolite game with you when I get bettel. Andh aj much aj you wish."
(A/N: Sadh-sad, favolite-favorite, bettol-better, Andh-and, aj-as)
Hearing this, the twins made an excited face amidst their tearful eyes.
"Really??"
"Really!!"
"Promise??"
Wiping their eyes,Kiel replied, "Plomij"
"Alright! Don't Disturb him anymore. Go to your room. Let's call it a day"
The twins heard the order from their father and nervously returned to their room.
Agatha hugged her little baby for one last time and bade him goodbye. She even wanted to hug him to sleep. But Kiel denied her, telling her he still didn't learn the basic runes. And he will sleep with her only after memorizing them. He even showed her his secret weapon, his puppy eyes.
"Momma you have to give me double reward then."
Agatha could only smile and reluctantly agree after seeing her son's stubbornness. She was happy that her baby could control himself a little. But was also sad at the same time that he was away from her now.
Kiel gave Derek a hug too, surprising him in the process, as he had never done so until now. But it was too late to say anything as Kiel had already gone away.
Kiel returned to his room and tried to lock the door with great difficulty. Now he was almost 3 feet in height. So he thought with a tool and a little jump, it would be enough. But no matter how much he tried, he just couldn't reach it!! Frustrated, he gave up.
'Great... now even the door is bullying me…'
Kiel was so frustrated now. He just wanted to hug his mother's breasts now and forget everything. But his reasoning side told him that he had things to do. So he could only excuse himself. He was somewhat surprised by his previous thoughts.
'Sigh! It seems that my body is influencing my thoughts. Whatever. I will look into it later. Now I have other things to do.'
Thinking some of the other things, Kiel sat down cross legged on the ground. Although he was now weak and had almost no life energy, didn't mean that he could not build up more.
Concentrating his thoughts, taking shallow breaths, he closed his eyes and slowly started 'Tranquil Force' to calm down his mind.
But unlike before, this time he infused his life energy into his blood in a similar manner as Circulation, allowing it to easily reach his brain. Now as his control over his energy has become better, he could focus even more of his mind.
Surprisingly ,his thoughts cleared away very easily allowing him to reach his highly concentration state - the 'Tranquil State'. In this state his thought process and perception would become greatly strengthened.
Intrigued as he channelled more life energy, his mind cleared even more. It has now become at least double the previous state. Now when he wanted to channel more energy, he felt his mind hurt. Knowing that he had reached his peak, Kiel stopped channelling more energy and started concentrating.
Previously, he could only maintain this state for mostly ten seconds and that too with great difficulty. But now, he could maintain it much easily with even better intensity. Although he didn't have much energy, feeling his hyped up state, he still wanted to give it a try.
As he reached his peak and started concentrating, he felt something, something very vague. Intrigued as he concentrated more, he felt some vague sensations coming from around him.
As he started focusing more on one of the sensations which felt nearest to him and also gave him the most intense sensation, he felt a sudden attraction to it. It even felt like the sensation wanted to reach him but just couldn't.
Just then an enormous splitting headache hit him. His eyes blanked and he passed out immediately, losing consciousness.
***
Agatha woke up in the morning, and the first thing she did was go to check up on her little baby. Coming over, she pushed the door open and then entered inside.
But what she saw inside, again gave her a deep headache. Kiel was lying on the floor in a similar manner as before. Seeing her son like this again, she started panicking. But still she got close to him and tried waking him up.
"Baby!! Wake up!! Mamma is here. Baby!!"
Seeing he didn't wake up, she picked up a nearby jug and even sprinkled a little water on his eyes. But seeing his eyes still closed, she thought about calling Derek and again taking him to the health care centre.
Just as she was about to shout, Kiel blinked his eyes a little and slowly opened them. Feeling someone around him, he called out...
"Mo...mma??"
The sudden words halted her shouts. And it filled her with a deep feeling of relief.
"What happened to you?? Didn't I tell you to sleep with me. See what happened now. Why are you again unconscious on the ground?? Don't you know how much I worry about you…!! You are doing as you see fit lately. You … you need a good thrashing. Only then you will stop these foolishness. Otherwise you will worry me to death!!..."
Seeing his mother's non stop barrage of words, Kiel didn't feel annoyed, instead he felt a genuine happiness.
Interrupting Agatha, Kiel replied, "Mommma I am alrighth. Just wanted a cool feeling. So slepth heal (here). It felt comfolting, so I just had a deep sleep. I think I was exhausted befole. So didn't wake up when you called me."
Still doubting his words, Agatha wanted to continue, but couldn't find any fault to nitpick. And she even panicked first without properly checking him.
Wanting to divert his mother's attention, he came up with an excuse.
"Momma I'm feeling hungry"
Hearing these words, she came out of her reverie.
"Ok. I'll go prepare your breakfast. When it is done, I'll call you. Come and eat up then. You will feel better with everyone around. Meanwhile just rest here"
Nodding at her suggestion, and seeing his mom going out, Kiel finally sighed in relief, but his eyes were a little sad.
'I've to quickly gather information about this world. I don't want to see my mother sad by keeping secrets from her.'
Remembering the previous night's sensation, Kiel wanted to give it a try again. But when he remembered the fatigue and headache, he changed his mind.
'I should wait a week and bring my vitality to its peak. Then I can give it a try...that strange sensation.'
Kiel immediately started his daily training regimen after a bit of rest. This time however, he didn't use any Circulation, Tranquil Force, or peering into his root chakra, as all this would require life force.
He just simply took deep breaths and focused on revitalizing his body through Vitalization. He didn't focus anymore and let his mind flow and body relax… relax and relax even more.
As he continued, he felt his whole body in a relaxed state. After some time passed, Kiel felt an energy build up in every cell of his body; like a sticky liquid spreading across his entire body and enveloping him within. It felt like the enveloping energy was soothing his every being, starting from his mind to the rest of the body.
Kiel thought 'So this is the real Vitalization. What I've been doing previously was just stimulating some of my more prominent energy organs to generate more energy which I could feel. But this… this feels like all of my body is in harmony to re-energize myself!! Although I don't really know what's happening, I think this is most likely the case...'
Kiel started enjoying the whole process as it felt even more comfortable than being in a spa, from his previous life. An energy spa.. But just when he lost himself in the feeling, the energy started to spread more and more slowly moving towards his lower body…
When it reached his tailbone region, immediately there came a suction force, and all the energy building up started to get sucked up in the vortex of energy formed in his body. Slowly the vortex even started to get bigger and bigger.
'Nooo… ' Kiel suddenly woke up. Opening his eyes, he was totally shocked by the vortex. And just when he remembered the previous incident, he started panicking. He still did what he could to stop the vortex, but whatever he did was to no avail.
Thinking about the previous helpless state he was in, he felt a chill down in spine. However, he could only watch the vortex, with a helpless gaze, as it started to suck up every energy that his body generated again.
However, this time the suction ended fairly quickly and didn't take all his life energy. He could still feel a little left in his body.
Sighing, he was struck between thinking, to be happy that the Chakra showed him mercy by not taking all hi energy; or to be sad as again, it took up the energy he generated with such difficulty.
Just as he was feeling depressed and relieved at the same time, he felt his body turning a little heavier. Surprised at what was happening, he looked at his body, and saw his hands and legs were covered in a maroon hue. It was like his pale skin was covered in sunburns all over.
But he didn't feel any discomfort. He still couldn't figure out what was happening to him, and was it good or bad. All he felt was a heaviness covering his whole body.
Not getting enough information from the outside, he considered sensing what was happening inside his body. Closing his eyes he focused on the sticky warm liquid like feeling.
Sensing, he felt maroon energy waves being emitted and spreading to every part of his body. Wherever the waves touched, that part became heavier.
Intrigued, he tried to trace the source. As he sensed from moving his lifeforce slowly, he felt that the source was in his lower body, to be more precise, his Root Chakra.
'This again…'
Feeling he had panicked enough and nothing could be worse, he braced himself and sent his life force towards his Root Chakra, expecting even worse outcome.
But this time, he didn't feel his life force being sucked. He felt his Root Chakra vibrating at a somewhat bizarre way. It seemed to be not vibrating itself, just resonating with something.
Kiel had enough experience with bizarre things in his previous life too. So he was not stumped by this. He thought maybe the vibration he felt, came from inside it as he had known there was something inside. Although he didn't see it properly due to fainting previously, he was sure of it.
So he continued sending his lifeforce to the inside. And he was right the whole space inside was vibrating. He wanted to probe further. But he couldn't continue due to lack of control and his little life energy left.
(A/N: Kiel doesn't have any inner sight or anything. He is just sensing what his life force touches. For now imagine it as when you touch something with closed eyes but the feeling is intense. I'll explain it in detail later.)
Sighing, he withdrew his remaining lifeforce from his Root chakra. Just as he withdrew outside his chakra core, he felt that the energy emissions had reached it peak.
As he was observing the wonder more, he felt a familiar sensation hit him again, like what he felt yesterday. There were even multiple sources of such sensations like yesterday.
He wanted to know more about what it was, but couldn't describe them with anything else but sensation. The sensations this time were even much more intense than the previous time. He was also curious what they were. And as he had already braced himself for the worst, he continued.
Like before, he focused on the closest but the strongest sensation. He similarly even felt an attraction to it. But the thing different this time was the sensation started moving from its original place and advanced towards him albeit slowly,until it appeared just in front of his closed eyes.
He was not even exhausted this time. Feeling the maroon energy waves washing across his mind, he understood they were strengthening him.
Intrigued what really happened, Kiel opened his eyes, only to see a wooden splinter floating in front of his eyes. Fascinated by it, Kiel tried to control it like before and it also moved how he willed it, but slowly.
He could now feel the attraction from everything around him even with open eyes. Thinking something, he dropped the wooden splinter and tried to pick up a small wooden box beside his bedside. As he tried, he felt a connection between him and the box. When he tried to move it toward him,he couldn't. The box seemed way too heavy than he thought.
Just as he wanted to try more about this, the maroon energy waves dissipated. And thus, he lost his connections with the box. However, he could still feel the sensations all around him even now albeit very faint. So he tried moving them again. He started with the easiest, the splinter. But this time he couldn't, no matter how much he tried..
'Hmm… Telekinesis??
Maybe … but I'm not too sure. I never had abilities like telekinesis. So I don't know. It needs further experiments to know. Well I'll think about it when I can control it better.'
Kiel thought with a finger on his chin.
Seeing all these new things happening, he felt nervousness, but also way too excitement at the same time. As a previous scientist, what can he desire more than discovering something new.
As he was thinking, a loud shout woke him up.
"Baby!! Breakfast is ready. You can come down now"
"Coming"
He woke up and started going down. But as he touched the door, he saw his pale hands and immediately remembered, his skin had turned maroon.
Running back, he stared at the mirror. He stared at it only to see it staring back at him. His skin was still the beautiful pale color, with no red colour whatsoever.
He felt a sudden relief. He didn't want to become a red monkey.
Thinking that it was because of the energy waves, he was very curious about everything that happened in a few days.
Seeing everything was okay, he came out of his room while thinking what more did the maroon glow gave him except his telekinesis ability.
And then BAM. He struck his head hard against the door of the dining room cum kitchen.
Just as he touched his head, thinking how much it would hurt him, he felt nothing. No pain at all…
Suddenly he realized something…