Chasing Elysian

35. Growing Trust Issues

Rosanna's P. O. V:

“-anna. Rosanna.”

A warm hand squeezed my cheeks amidst my sleepy state. Grumbling incoherently, I swiped at the hand only for my hand to be gripped and fondled painfully.

“Yo-” I cracked an eye open with a husky voice.

“What.” I stressed with venom. Does anyone not know it's basic manners to not wake a sleeping person up?

“What?” Kairos mockingly said in a high pitched voice.

Rolling my eyes, I sat up begrudgingly before staring at the white haired man who took a sit on the wooden chair besides me.

“Doctor Osborne will be here in a few minutes to check your condition but before then, I'd like to explain some things to you.”

“Yes, I have a question.” I spoke before Kairos continued, halting his planned explanation.

“Why was it necessary for you to kiss me to know which affinity I awakened?”

That thought bothered me a lot before my sleep. It was like the withdrawal effect of an addictive substance. Except the desires were toned down.

'Why. Why. Why the fudge did we do that?!?! Omg-- HOW did we do such a thing?! Kairos- nani!'

'Rip. Jael.'

Cocking a brow at my sudden question, Kairos curled his lips in a teasing smile staring at me with a hint of mischief.

“What? You thought I did it because I wanted to have a taste of your oh-so luscious lips?”

My cheeks burned with embarassment but on the inside I also felt partially angry. Who wouldn't-

“Truthfully, yes.”

Jaw dropping from his remark, I stared at Kairos with astonishment.

“What-”

“We will get there. But for now, listen.” Kairos spread his legs out, leaning his body upon the chair. An elbow was propped upon the handle as he held his chin up with a completely lazy vibe.

His voice was slightly lowered when he said, “I will tell you about my Origin talent seeing as how I know of yours. And consider it an official introduction in being apart of my team. Agreed?”

“Agreed.” I nodded. And he continued without hesitation.

“My first Orgin talent is called [Order]. Order has three generalized functions: One being Reversion-- the ability to reverse any form, matter or derived energy into a state before it's current figure. As long as there is a changed history, I can reset the chosen target into it's former figure.

Like how I told you a space rift appeared but I nullified it's growth-- with, Reversion. Whenever it increases, I'd bring it back to where it started. But of course, as that force is the world's origin itself, there was little I could do.

My second skill of [Order] is 'Cease'. I can erase any matter from the existence of time. It's similar to Reversion but unlike Reversion which retains the existence of something, Cease directly erases the existence of the targeted matter. It's like clearing off the written words on a whiteboard with a duster.

And my third skill of [Order] is 'Still'. Simply call it 'time stop'. To put a targeted matter in a time freeze. All these that I've mentioned have certain limitations I cannot go into, yet. But you get the idea, Rosanna?”

“Um, yes.” I already know of your skills, dude! Though it is nice to have my memory refreshed.

“So, um... does this have anything to do with the... kiss?” I asked, cringing internally.