Eternal Saṃsāra: The Wanderer of Worlds, Book 1

[119] Sudden Flight Training

Chapter 119: Sudden Flight Training

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We returned home from Okinawa Island with only delight accompanying us.

I hadn't had any ominous feelings before coming here, but I was half expecting and ready for an attack from the Norse.

No such thing happened. If we ignore the tsunami and the hell storm it came along, nothing has gone wrong, and all has ended well.

Although after waking up in haste, Ai was having trouble walking. Because she was floating around without control; she had gained flight power this time. Her newfound abilities had to make themselves known in the most inconvenient manner possible.

We somehow pushed her into the car and fled the beach that was being drowned by seawater, but she had a hard time even just sitting in the car. She kept floating up and getting hit back and forth against the seats.

"Ow!" Ai exclaimed, wincing as her head slammed into the car ceiling once more. Cramped in the car, she was really uneasy, her body language tense. Her red face was a mix of confusion and embarrassment as she tried to anchor herself back to the seat, only to float up again, her limbs flailing in a futile attempt to find something to hold onto. "This is ridiculous! I can't even sit in a car properly now?!"

'What is she doing?' I felt embarrassed in her stead as I looked at her in the rear-view mirror.

"Blue, stop the car," I told the driver who did as asked, and I stepped out of the car. The sky roared above me as rain fell, but a thin bubble of willpower kept me dry. I walked to the back door and opened it to find Ai and Ruby looking at me.

"Do you have a solution?" Ai asked, and I grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her out promptly.

"Get off," I said abruptly, though by then I had pulled her out already. The bubble expanded to keep her dry as well. I looked at Ruby and then at Blue from a corner, "You two continue ahead. We'll catch up."

AI stammered in surprise. "H-hey, what-! Hey wait!" she called, but the car already skittered away from sight. "Oh, come on!"

If she was confused and annoyed by that, it only creased when I effortlessly lifted her into my arms, bridal style, without any warning.

"What?!"

"Hold tight."

Her initial fluster at the intimate gesture soon gave way to awe as my feet tapped the ground and we ascended, leaving the confines of the earth below.

The ground receded rapidly as we rose, as we watched raindrops drum against it, the night air cool and liberating around us. Ai, held securely in my arms, could only stare in silence, her earlier complaints died in her throat as she looked down at how small everything looked.

I was lifting myself with sheer willpower, and not my Path's powers. So there was no technique behind this; as half a Sage, I had these benefits I could enjoy.

The rainy world below us was a canvas of darkness and light, the urban sprawl a faint glow against the vast, unyielding shadow of the night. But it was the sky above that captured our attention. As we levitated up, slipping through rainy clouds and going even above, Ai finally looked around us instead of the world below and gasped.

Above the dark clouds, a vast expanse of indigo blue blanket with stars, a celestial spectacle laid out in its full glory. Ai's eyes widened, and her breath caught in her throat at the sight.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" I whispered too close to her ears, my voice barely audible over the whistle of the wind.

"It is..." Ai nodded slowly, her gaze fixed on the heavens, the constellations telling tales older than time.