In the Trading-Hills Capital, the two princes and the princess were getting groomed for the upcoming welcome party for Princess Alisera.
At that moment, no one knows what was happening in the lobby room, especially when the time was stopped.
When the universe is in black and white, Avion punched the one who once "killed" him but instead, it felt like he hit a stone. Using his absolute control over time, he reverted his fist a minute ago when he didn't punch Edora.
"Uhhh..." Avion relaxed as the pain went away in an instant. After a while, he frowned as he despaired to realize that he was unable to get back his revenge.
"Isn't stopping time useless then?" he dropped on the ground, "What should I do?"
If Avion returned the time, Edora would just attack him again. If he was off guard like before, he may experience death once more, and that greatly traumatized him.
Avion stared at the floor for a long time, thinking about what he would do but nothing comes up in his mind. The only thing that he thought of was to try again and punch her but before the split second he will hit her, he will return the time.
However, even though it was plausible, just the thought of returning back the flow of time scared him. But still, Avion frowned as he steeled himself.
"If I don't do anything, I will just get stuck here until forever... that's the same as death." he deeply breathed, trying to calm himself. Thinking of the moments to come that he will have the chance to converse to another again gave him courage.
Avion was solitary all his life. Now that he finally had the chance to be a part of other people's lives, he will not stop and just give up!
"Okay... Hu-!" he bounced on the floor, readying himself while blowing on his fist with determined eyes. "This is easy. I am Avion Teller, the God of Time, the Supreme Being of the Universe, the Ruler of Everything, and the one who will beat you!"
As he pulled his hand, he saw Edora's face... he readied himself as he just stared for a long time.
"..."
When color came back as well as time, Edora's strike continued all the way down, however, it only pierced the air and nothing more. Already expected for her target to easily escape, her cold eyes immediately looked all around her and saw Avion on the opposite edge of the room.
"Let's talk about t-Ah!" but before Avion could finish speaking, he stopped time as Edora disappeared from her spot and was already on her way to him midway through the room.
Seeing that Edora didn't even lend him her ears, Avion pouted.
In Edora's perspective of time, when she was about to attack Avion again, he disappeared once more and saw him on another side.
"I will definitely pun-"
Without hearing what he was saying, Edora already kicked the ground and Whoosh~, interrupting Avion.
"Hey, why don't ta-"
Whoosh~
"I am really getting ma-"
Whoosh~
...
...
Edora was now sweating profusely. After a few minutes of using her body strengthening to speed her up multiple times, she was getting exhausted. But she didn't give up. Every time she attacked, she felt that just a little closer and she will reach this man.
'How does he keep doing this?!' she thought that this young man will eventually get tired before her. But it never happened, 'Just a little more!' she persisted.
"This is the last war-" Whoosh~ Avion stopped time again, "ning..." he finished his words when time stopped with an indifferent expression, seemingly tired of it.
For him, once he stopped time, he would move to another position and when the time came back, Edora already disappeared from her position. It was always a gamble at first, thinking that she could still go faster. But after doing it several times, he had already measured her strength and that was her limit.
Avion began to become confident and the fear in his heart lessened. In just a matter of a few minutes, he already overcame his first trauma.
Time was stopped and Avion looked at Edora who was off the ground with her sword pointed at his face.
"I warned you..." he said but he knew he was just deceiving himself. If he was not scared, he must have already slapped her a hundred times by now. But not to worry, it will begin now.
Not a fist but a palm. Avion decided not to beat her but just teach her a lesson since his anger already dissipated and violence was new to him. Avion is kind of a peaceful man being lived all his life alone in peace. He pulled his arm back and gave his all Whoosh~
Pak!*
A crisp slap resounded in the little castle as soon as the time came back. Edora's head almost turned around as she spat out saliva.
Avion almost fell in front because of the force he gave and when he stabilized himself, he shook his hand as if in pain but he had already reverted it.
The slap was so hard that it changed Edora's trajectory of her jump, making her fall on the floor with a reddened cheek. In just a few moments, that left cheek slightly bulged and stung.
Even a knight captain like her made her eyes teary and twitched in pain.
"...." slowly, she looked at Avion with a baffled expression, "What did you do?" she then stood up, "How did you do that?"
Edora was greatly shocked.
"So it was not speed nor 'blink'?" she murmured to herself as if she was not just slapped hard. The shock was greater than her anger.
"Hm?" but Avion just frowned at this because he couldn't understand.
"If it was just speed, I would feel the wind, but there was none. If it was a 'blink' then you shouldn't be able to attack... I didn't see you pull your arm but that slap was strong and with force." Edora's eyes were trembling. If only she knew that in another passage of time, she saw Avion's true power after killing him, "That shouldn't be possible. Are you just that strong? No, but there is a follow-through."
Indeed, there was no sign that Avion had prepared for that slap, at least in Edora's perspective. So for her, it was a mystery, physically.
There are three phases of any movement; preparation, execution, and follow-through. This was common sense, a universal common sense. In punching; preparation is where you pull your fist back for potential, then execution is the punch itself. and follow-through is the remainder of that force or the recoil.
However, in Avion's case, there are execution and follow-through but there was no preparation. In Edora's mind, there are only two possible choices: Avion must be acting for the follow-through while he had immense strength, or that he is breaking the universe's law!