3rd POV
*Meanwhile with the Cube higher administrative office just a few minutes ago before Hajin arrived at the staff Office*
--Seung-Ah's Office--
A brown-haired lady was sitting on the desk chair while a man with soldier looking cloths was standing besides her.
This was Seung-Ah and instructor Park, however, their facial expression told that they were very worried about something.
*sigh*
Instructor Park could only sigh, he had given up on trying to understand what anomalies could do. But it seems that Seung-Ah wasn't ready for that. She was sitting on the chair with her arms on the table and bitting her finger while sweat rolled from the side of her face.
In front of both of them was a large TV screen, however, it, or more specifically, the person shown in the screen, as the cause of all this trouble and increase in the load of work that Seung-Ah was facing.
"I gave up trying to understand him, but who knew there was another one just like him, another black horse." Instructor Park said.
"That still doesn't explain how they have so much power! This isn't supposed to be a world where power grows on trees, how did two mere kids became so powerful??!" Seung-Ah asked, trying to release the frustration that was build up inside her head.
"First there's a cadet who destroyed an island single handedly, than twe found a spy from Evil Society, now what?! Another cadet who is probably just as strong as the one before?! How are they mere cadets?!"
"..." No one replied. It wasn't that they didn't want to, it was that no one was able to comprehend the power of those two either.
"And do you know what the astrologists said?! They said the fricking orbit of the planet was changed!! And that burst of power had destroyed several planets and stars, they couldn't even measure how far it went into space! And do you what happened next?! Everything was restored, even the destroyed planets and the voids regenerated! And they can't even find the reason?! What are they even for if they couldn't even find a reason behind it?!"
She had completely lost her cool, but it was normal considering what she witnesed. Two cadets, two mere cadets did it. Their seemingly combined power was so great that it shattered the stars and planets and left voids in it's path, but that was not all, they even restored everything they destroyed!
Now how did she come to this conclusion? Because it was only logical, even if the first part of cadets doing that was illogical, the next statement was only logical if seen that way, because, there was no one else besides them on the entire planet, not even the nine-stars, that had shown such powers.
"Calm down, there's nothing we can do about it, just let it go, or your brain will explode before you see the end of it. The media is also asking what happened since almost all the people on the planet saw the phenomenon with their own eyes. And from this display of power, I'm confident that the previous Aura we felt a few hours ago was also due to Cadet... Kim Hajin... now it even feels funny calling him a cadet for some reason..."
"..." She stopped speaking as the gears in her brain started spinning at full speed, and she came to a conclusion that everyone agreed on.
"*sigh* you're right, I should seriously give up trying to understand him. But... who would have thought that the princess of England was also such a power house. She was already strong being the 3rd Rank of the first years in cube, but now it's not even funny. Not to mention the power she displayed was quite similar to Hajin's, so I'm guessing he has something to do with this as well." Seung-Ah sighed again at the end. Seriously, they would get a habit of sighing, and the only one to blame would be Hajin.
"You're probably right about that, but how? And why? I know that those two became close after some time, but that can't be the only reason why he would give her such powers. And how did he do it? There's no record of someone being able to give someone else a part of their power. But if we go by that theory, than the power displayed would be Kim Hajin's alone. Which means that he alone is capable of doing that." Instructor Par exclaimed. He still couldn't help but wonder how Kim Hajin was able to do these things.
"... And he can stop time... *sigh* I can already imagine him saying that it's something related to his gift if I were to interogate him about it. The last thing I want to hear is him saying it's because of some random omnipotent god who gave both of them their powers because he was bored." She said with a straigt face.
"Come on, you know that's too cliche. And that usually happens in animes and fiction, this is reality. There's no way such a being can exist... or maybe I'm wrong. There's no way to prove if that's true or not..."
"Yeah... I-" Seung-Ah was cut by the sound of phone ringing on the table.
"Hmm?" The call was from the intermediate staff office. She picked up the call.
"Yes, Seung-Ah speaking."
--Good evening Seung-Ah-ssi, but there's a request that you have to check currently. It's from... Cadets, Kim Hajin and Rachel. It's related to their new dorms.
"... what is it?" She asked. 'The princess of England huh, I guess his standards should indeed be that high given his power. But the princess... we had already guessed that something was happening between those two. So they become this close to be able to live together huh... *sigh* looks like my work load will increase even more when the public finds out about this...'
--It seems that they want their dorms to be in the mixed section, which is not a problem, but they want to combine their dorms into one.
"Okay... , give me a minute, let me check the available pent houses that are next to each other." She said and turned ot Instructor Park.
"Are there any pent-houses available that are next to each other?" She asked.
"Let me see..." He went to the other table in the room where a computer was placed on the desk and checked the enteries of the dorms available.
"There's one pair in the mixed cadets dorm section. And..."
"And?" She asked. She was getting nervous because of all this pausing after sentences, which was currently not good for her health because she already had enough of it due to a certain black-haired dense protagonist.
"There's also a bigger single pent house available, but it's in the teacher's dorms."
"So you're talking about that one? The one that was meant for the high ranking staff to live in?"
"Yes... but, it's not in good condition. There hasn't been anyone who entered that place for years, so it has gotten rusty and the insides also need thorough cleaning."
"Hmm..." 'That place is meant for the teachers only, so cadets are not normally allowed to go there. But... It's Kim Hajin we're talking about, we could gain his favor in case there's an emergency situtation like a sudden attack from Evil Society. He's too powerful to be left alone. But he also said that he won't affiliate himself with any guild except MAYBE one, and my instincts tell me that him joining whatever guild he meant by that is most likely going to happen...'
'But if he owed us a favor, we could ask him to forge an alliance with Cube, and possibly one of the top 2 guilds as well. It's most likely that the guild he would join would become the top 1 after some time, so it's better to gain his favor at this time so it will come handy in the situation. Okay... let's do this.'
"Okay, we will give that that place to them. We already have to use for that place, so actually better if someone uses it in the meantime. And it's a perfect time to gain their favor as well." She said while looking towards Instructor Park.
"Indeed. It's decided than?"
"Yes." She said as she again took the phone to her ears and said.
"Tell them that we have a better offer for them. And show them the empty pent house that was in the teacher's dorms. Also inform that it is not clean, so they have to do so themselves if they want to accept. Otherwise if they don't agree, give them the dorm keys of number 69 and 70."
--Yes.
"And be sure to be polite, we don't want to give them a bad impression, they will be useful in the future, so make sure to convince them the best you can into taking the mansion sized pent house."
--Yes, Understood.
She than cancelled the call and glanced at the instructor besides her.
"Give me the full video recording, or the higher one we could get, of their training in the new facility and Hajin's show of power on the island. We have to at least catogrize some of their powers and update their profile further, but be sure that this information doesn't leak outside. Also, start the reconstruction of the training facility, it must be done before the cadets' 2 week break is over." She gave the best orders she could think of as she reviewed the paper in her hand."Very well." The instructor said and left the room. Seung-Ah looked at the two papers in her hand. They were the profiles of Hajin and Rachel, not the official ones in the cadet's data base that everyone could see, but the one with all the information they could gather on the two's powers and activities."Kim Hajin and Rachel Elizabeth Louise, I hope we don't ever become enemies in the future." She said while looking at their photos.
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--Meanwhile with our soon-to-be lovebirds--
3rd POV
"So, this is it huh?" He exclaimed as he looked at the mansion-sized pent house in front of him.
"It sure is big, bigger than what I originally imagined." Just from the front look, the mansion was easily at least two times the size of a normal pent house, if not bigger.
"Indeed, but keeping it clean would be tiring as well." Rachel said. She didn't want to clean such a big place, even if only once a month. And orginizing and managing the mansion with just the two of them wouldn't be easy as well.
"You don't have to worry about that, I'll take care of it, there are multiple ways to do so. But I don't plan on making you do the chores or things like that. We already have powers to do these things for us." He said while looking at Rachel with a loving gaze.
"I-is that so..." She said while blushing.
"Now then, shall we get inside?" He asked as while unlocking the door with his smartwatch.
Yep, that's right. There's no "Key" in the first place, the thing that they went to the office to get was authorization. Since they were authorized, their smartwatch had been updated with further data so that anyone of them could go in and out of the pent house freely.
As soon as he opened the door, he was greeted by a room full of dust and dirt. Thankfully, there were no insects or anything like that, only dirt.
Hajin moved forward a bit and scanned the mansion-sized pent house with [Thousand Miles Eye]. He than came out of the house where Rachel was standing since Hajin told her to wait for a bit outside.
"Ok than, let's do it." He said and paused for a few seconds.
"Active Gift [Idea Creation]. Create Skill [Rewind]. Skill Type : Causality. Concept : [Time]." He said as he began writing the idea and logic behind the skill he wanted. Meanwhile Rachel stared at Hajin thinking what he was saying.
'Causality : Rewinds time to a desired extent upon the host's command through thought, talk or action in exchange of mana.' He than checked if the logic had room for any imporvement or not, and than proceeded to finish.
{Affirmative. Calculating required SP...}
{The specified Skill requires 20,000 SP. Would you like to proceed?}
'Yes.' He answered in his thoughts.
{Command confirmed. Creating Skill... Successful. Copying skill in shared skill [Skill Bank].}
Just to confirm that there were no errors or loop holes in the skill, he created a glass cup via [Stigma] and threw it on the ground. The cup breaked on impact into several pieces.Hajin then covered his hand over the broken pieces and said, "[Rewind]". The cup was restored into it's original form as it was before the breaking point.
On the other hand, Rachel was surprised of how Hajin did that, but than remembered that he could also stop time, so rewinding it would be possible as well for him. But she still wanted to ask how he did it.
"... How did you do that? I don't remember you rewinding time during the training facility. There were a lot of moments when it could be useful, right?"
"Indeed. I didn't use it because I didn't had the power at the time."
"What... do you mean by not having the power?"
"I meant that I couldn't do it before. I can do it now because I created the skill just a few seconds ago." He replied
"... You can create powers?"
"Hmm, Yeah. That's one of my main powers. You can say that in a way, I can create skills in exchange for a "Special" type of mana that only I have."
"Nihility?"
"No, it's another type."
"Oh..."
"Well, whatever, let's continue what we were about to do." He said as he reached out his hand towards the house.
"[Rewind]" He activated the skill.
In just a few seconds, the entire mansion was clean. It was as if it had been entirely reconstructed. All the piles of dirt were no where to be seen. [Rewind] could reverse the time of anything, an object, a body, a state of being or even something abstract as long as the user could understand what it was.
Of course, Hajin made sure to exclude the furnitures and the actualy building because if he didn't do that, the furniture would have reversed into what it was before when it was built, while the building would have collapsed and turn into bricks and alike. So, he only used [Rewind] on the atmosphere, which included air which in turn included all the smells and anything flying in the air like flies or other insects, and anything that was not the building or the furniture.In a way, he only effected one side of the duality, one side of the system, the bad and dirty side, while leaving the other side, the original building as it was before.
"Now let's get inside, shall we?" He said as he extented his hand towards Rachel. Of course, he had to built up his courage to ask that still.
"A-ah, sure..." She held his hand in return and both of them entered the building.What greeted them was a clean and lovely sight of a lovely house. The enternace door was enough for several people to come in at once. There was a small area to place your shoes and a few other necessities at the side. Than the hallway which extended to the living room.
The living room had a large sofa that could easily fit 5 people. There was a big table in front of it which had several items on it for eating or for other purposes. There was a very large TV in front of the table which was hanged on the wall.
The living room was connected to all the other main rooms like the kitchen, several bedrooms, a bathroom, two separated washrooms, a small library to read something.
Of course, there were a lot more rooms than just that, but they were side necessities that were empty originally or had little stuff in them, but when using [Rewind], he also added things in them. Things like PCs for gaming, for Hajin's online investments and other businesses like the Truth Agency.
Overall, from what Hajin had seen using his [Thousand Miles Eye] to look at the entire mansion, excluding the washrooms, the bathroom and the kitchen, there were a total of 8 rooms in the first floor, and 5 rooms on the second floor. There was also a basement underneath the first floor and a pool outside at the back of the mansion, and a small sized garden, which, for a house, was quite large.
These rooms included a Cinema room, a library, a bedroom, a dressing room, a gaming room, a separate computer room for Hajin, an office and a few more while the second floor had two more bedrooms and a dressing room. There were also two more rooms. One of the rooms contained equipment like telescope and alike for watching stars and the space, while the other was a separate room filled with toys and other things.
Of course, most of these rooms were for Evandel, who would play in them or use them for anything she liked in the meantime.
There were also special training rooms in the basement for magic and weapon training.
In short, the house, or more like the mansion, was packed. Anything that you would ever need was in here.
But obviously, this was not here from the start. The only things in the house were two beds, some bathing items, some chairs and a table, all of which were old. So Hajin had to add all of them
He used [Stigma] along with Nihlity to create them. But he didn't had to create them from scarth because for some reason, the [Creator] already had them prepared beforehand. When Hajin asked why he made these, he said that it was just in case a situation like this happened.
Obviously, that was a lie. He already knew this would happen, so he had already made these things for the couple and their lovely child, unbeknownst to them of course.
In short, they were getting spoiled rotten by the [Creator]. He was basically being a suger daddy for the two, soon to be three.
Hajin went to the sofa and sat on it while taking out his stuff from [Imaginary Space] and putting them at a corner of the house. He did the same with Rachel's stuff and put it in the bedroom.
Originally, Rachel thought that she should just ask some instructors for her stuff to be shifted here, but Hajin insisted that he could do it instead, so she let him.
Rachel came near and also sat on the sofa and relaxed.
Both of them had a tiring day. First they trained at the facility, than they went to the office and than to their new house. Although the distance was not that large, they were still tired, or well, they did it out of habit. Everyone wanted to take a rest and relax, and they were no exceptions.
After a few minutes of laying on the sofa, Hajin went to his sleep. Rachel, who was sitting besides him, saw this and slowly got closer, trying not to wake him up.
She sat right besides Hajin, the distance between the two was barely the size of a hand positioned vertically.
[Oh, I see where this is going...] The [Creator], seeing this, was excited to see Hajin's reaction when he woke up, so, he temporarily disabled his sense of touch and other magical senses so Hajin won't know if Rachel touches him
Rachel slowly stretched her hand at the backside of Hajin's head and leisurely pulled his head onto her laps.
She was a little afraid and embarassed of him waking up, but to her surprise, he didn't. He was, for some reason, in a deep sleep, even though it was daytime.
She then started patting his head and curling his hair as she looked at his face.
For some reason, it looked very handsome to Rachel...
'Soon, since we started living together from now on, soon... it's only a matter of time for Hajin to fall for me... I have to try my best!' She thought but soon realized what she was thinking and got embarrassed. Her face turned red as a tomato and smoke started coming out of her head.
She still continued to caress his face and played with his hair. But soon, she got sleepy and without realizing, her eyes closed. Soon, she also fell into a deep sleep.
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*An hour and a half later*
Hajin's POV
I slowly opened my eyes as I felt my consciousness returning. It was still hazy, guess it's been a while since I got to sleep so peacefully.
Suddenly, I felt a hand moving near my cheek. It was solf and relaxing.
I closed and reopened my eyes several times till my vision returned completely.
But the sight I saw when I opened my eyes left me perplexed... and embarrassed.
"Huh?"
I was laying on Rachel's lap. She was also sleeping. It seems that she was caressing my face earlier and fell asleep. Was the relaxing feeling I felt in my sleep her caress?
Still, to be honest, I'm surprised. I never thought I would get to experience something like this so soon...
'Does that mean she... loves me...? I knew Rachel liked me... but I never thought it would bloom into love so soon...' He honestly thought that it would take at least a few more years for Rachel to fall in love with him, which he didn't mind.
But he was still glad... and happy... that someone in this world liked him too, with all her heart.
In the past, and even in his previous world, Hajin didn't have many people he could call family. He even had no real friends, not at school, not at work. He was the class loner in his school days too. As far as he could remember, the number of people he could call as friends at that time could be counted on fingers on one hand.
But they were just friends because they had the same hobby as Hajin, that was, reading novels.
So, the only ones who really loved him and could be called his family by him were his parents. However, he had to soon separate from them as well when he went into his University.
That was also the time that Hajin started writing his novel. He wrote the novel, and Suho lived that novel, but now, he is living the same novel he created.
At first, he only thought of going back to his original world by completing the story, he only saw everyone as his creation and showed no emotions towards any of them, thinking that he would one day have to return. But he soon began to realize that there was no garuntee that he would be able to go back there if he finished that. And the [Creator] only made that thought even stronger.
But when he was told that he would be able to go back to his world or live here, or do both, at his own choice. When he found that out, he promised himself and to his benefactor that he would live this world like his own and make the best out of this only life that he had, but well, that was not a problem that he had now. Because now, he was, and soon, his entire family of his loved ones would be, Immortal.
There was much to explore and discover in the infinite omniverse, and he doubted that he would ever get bored of life because his family would be beside him for all of eternity and beyond. And his family had also received the blessing of the Supreme Being, so none of them would ever get bored...
3rd POV
"Huh?" Hajin let out a surprise sound.
Rachel, whose sleep had gotten weaker, slowly started to open her eyes. She was woken up by Hajin's voice.
She opened her eyes, still hazy, but soon realized the previous situation and completely opened her eyes, only to see Hajin staring at her with a little smile on his face.
She again got embarrassed and let out a cute silent scream, but soon calmed down.
"Good morning... or is it supposed to be Good Evening?"
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