Aeon Nether & Idol Effigy

Chapter 15- Useless?

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If you're wondering. No, I haven't eaten yet. I haven't even moved from this spot. It is now midday and there are now 17 dead bodies around me.

Surprisingly, I'm innocent. I know. It shocked me too. More than it should have anyway.

Long story short these bodies came to me by themselves and then died.

It's not something as dramatic as them exploding or imploding in front of me. No, that would be cool and interesting. No, these people who seem to be working in this house all walked over to me with a swagger in their steps. The kind of swagger you'd see in some retro type gangster movie.

Would retro be how you describe it?

Well, it was comical at the beginning. The obvious steps towards me like they were going to intimidate me before bullying me.

But after their steps they'd start choking all by themselves. I had thought they were acting until I couldn't sense any energy from them.

Normally energy was something everyone has, but to differing degrees. For example, even the most ordinary person has it, but it would be called life energy. Life energy was the minimum amount of energy needed to give signs that you're alive.

Anyway, that was what I took from it all. Afterall, Trina's still a let down in the department of information about abilities.

Moving on, the life energy amount was what most people had to pay attention to. Some people's life energy amounts would also differ from each other. Although it's not something that I need to pay attention to.

Nonetheless, it's a very interesting thing. Normally, normal people without abilities have a low baseline amount of life energy. Next comes those with abilities, but can't use them. These people are special. They're generally split into a group that doesn't know their own abilities due to it being hard to detect and a group that knows their own abilities, but can't use them.

In normal cases this means that they have an energy problem. It's also very dangerous to be placed in either group and lack energy.

The former group lacks the abilities to form their own energy into a form of some sort. This form will be called ability or skill for short. If one does possess an ability like this they will typically already have enough energy to differentiate from the ordinary without abilities majority. But they are still able to manipulate energy. Normally they'd find trained ability users from the Energy Sense and/or Energy Information departments in testing centres. It's not very accurate, but it's the closest humanity has gotten to being able to diagnose the types of abilities people have.

I would make guesses following that line of thought to delve deeper into the information I have, but that would be it for the former group. You are reminded of this often in this world via advertisements to get a check up. I imagine people going crazy from the posters and billboards I've passed. So maybe not knowing your ability causes you to be unable to control how to use it? Or maybe it's simply seen as an invisible and odourless poison?

Your guess would be as good as mine.

Onto the later group, who do have known abilities, but lack energy to use them. Well, the passing advertisements stated losing your cool would result in you using up your own life energy in order to use your ability.

The latter group happens often in the otherworlds. This training world we call Earth may not increase its percentage for a couple of centuries.

I want to know more on the topic of abilities, but with the reactions I gained from people so far... Well, getting a good answer may be up to luck. As in the luck of finding some kind of explanation somewhere I can walk past and see.

But. Back to the topic of these dead people around me. Hmm...

They just went on to play very dramatic cliché deaths that I imagine would be worse than if I acted out my death. It made me happy that people were worse than me at acting.

But then they had to actually go and die!

Isn't it enough that they acted dramatically when playing out their death scenes?

Two people even made out with each other whilst dying. I suppose it's something that's supposed to be romantic. Like you die in your lover's arms.

It was a weird situation. In fact, all of them seem to ignore the previous bodies and walk towards me.

This cycle of stupidity continued on to give me 17 bodies surrounding me. If another idiot comes up they'd obviously think it was me who killed them. But I haven't.

Isn't it frustra- wait!

Wouldn't those lousy adults that 'adopted' me want to throw me out and draw pity towards themselves in some cheap way. Won't this be enough?

Thinking so I heard a gasp.

Oh! The Third rate blue man wanna be group has entered my vision again.

Ah, they're not speaking with each other.

Hmm...

Wondering what they were plotting, one of them threw a... rock?

"Taking personal to the back alley of the red light district", pronounced a disembodied voice.

Um... So, I guess I've been deemed as both useless and a nuisance that this family would rather forget.

Great!

Great?

Doesn't this mean I won't be pulled into the future mess they would have created?

Is this a good thing?

As the light flashed in front of my eyes I felt my body being moved.

The moment the light disappeared I was met with various groups of unsavoury people posing around me.

"Well, well, wel-", I cut him off with a piece of metal that I picked up from the ground.

I think it was some sort of leg for a small table.

It was enough.

After that, everything seemed to move quickly. It wasn't slowing down, like how movies say it would. Everything accelerated to a point that you'd think someone speeded up time to mess around with me. It was an annoying thing.

But it helped end my killing spree faster. I was also less injured that I'd thought I'd be.

"I guess I was deemed as useless", were the words that came out of me whilst I was trying to catch my breath.

"Useless?", said another voice.

Another voice?