Half an hour later at the physical training facility.
"Harder! do it harder! You're almost there!" A girl exclaid excitedly.
"I'm at my limit" Uriel huffed and puffed while pulling the elastic cord at the band machine.
"I guess you don't have super human strength." She shrugged after witnessing his poor attempt at pulling the band. "Let's try sprinting now." dusa said.
"Hang on a minute, I really need a break. I got an Idea, why don't you record all this?" He said as he took out his old digital cara from his backpack.
"This is Sage's private vlog, I'm here with dusa trying to figure out my trait, we'll be performing different experints to test out the extent of my trait and find a way to activate it." He spoke at the cara.
"You should've started recording before attempting to pull the elastic band." dusa pointed out his mistake.
"We already discarded superhuman strength, but we can still try other things." Uriel replied a bit regretful, after realizing he would need to perform several physical trials that would most likely be as tireso as pulling the elastic band.
The reason why they ca back to the physical training facility wasn't just because it possessed all the necessary equipnt to test Uriel's physical prowess, but also because after noon the place was deserted since most students would cherish what little free ti they had and would hardly spend it working out.
"Experint one: Sprinting." Uriel said after pointing at the athletics track and then took a position that resembled that of the athletes.
"You need to run up to the 100 ter mark, I'll ti you." dusa, who had her cellphone on heart, said as she pulled up the chronoter app on her phone to asure his results. "On your mark, ready, go!" She shouted.
Uriel ran with all his might focusing on speed rather than endurance, he ran the fastest he ever had in his life and then...
"23 seconds, that's... la actually." She looked disappointed, but Uriel was just starting.
"Super speed, enhanced endurance and pain resistance discarded." He said with a jagged breath. He was slow, tired and his muscles ached.
"Experint two: jump."
He said at the cara, but just like last ti, it was a failure. He jumped a bit higher than he was able to, but it wasn't by any ans sothing remarkable.
"Experint three: quick reflexes."
The set up for this experint was Uriel standing near the wall of the gym and dusa holding a bag of tennis balls with a murderous gaze. She was planning on taking revenge for the misunderstanding she considered herself a victim of, because she had thought that Uriel was going to ask her out, not to test his trait but on a date. Still, she didn't have any ill intentions towards him and asked Uriel if he was sure it was safe.
"Don't hold back or this will be useless." He said.
"It'll be my pleasure..." She grinned.
dusa threw the tennis balls like bullets with malign precision. Nine out of ten were hits and of those nine, three were right on Uriel's vital points.
"Hold back! Hold back! stop!" He yelped after each hit, but she rcilessly kept shooting the harmless, yet painful, projectiles until she had let out all her pent up stress.
"Whew, this was really therapeutic." She said when the bag was empty and Uriel was all bruised up.
"Quick reflexes and regenerative abilities have been discarded." He said at the cara with a grunt.
"Experint four: Endurance." [...] "Experint sixteen: flexibility"
"This is useless, we've ruled out all the physical capabilities I could think of already." dusa said after the long session of experints, but Uriel wasn't ready to give up just yet.
"The scientific thod needs observation, an hypothesis, data gathering and then analysis. there might be sothing interesting in the recordings, but I'll check that out later. We should try abilities unrelated to physical prowess now. Do you have any ideas?" Uriel tried to keep a solemn expression on his face, but with all the bruises he looked funny instead.
"Well, my trait feels like... It's like my eyes are burning, but it's not painful."
"That's it?" Uriel expected more than a short explanation.
"That's why everyone says that you either know how to use your trait or you don't have one. It's not like I have to do sothing to feel it, it's always there."
"Yes, but you also said yourself that all traits are different, we can't assu I don't have a trait just because it's different."
"Well then, let's try so of the possibilities..." She replied and they imdiately got down to work.
"Experint seventeen: invisibility."
"Experint eighteen: teleportation."
"Experint nineteen: laser sight."
[...]
"Experint thirty five: see through."
"Really? see through? and how will you put it to the test?" dusa asked intrigued and confused in equal asure. Only then did she notice that Uriel was staring at her. "Hey! Stop looking at , don't act like a pervert!" She flinched as she covered her intimate parts as well as she could thinking that maybe, just maybe, he could have the ability to see beneath her clothes.
"Don't go thinking stuff like that, I was trying to look inside your backpack."
"And?" She asked, still a bit intimidated.
"And your bra is white..." Uriel said with a deadpan expression.
"I knew it! all n are the sa, you're a pervert!" She yelled, but more than angry she was disappointed. "You're a pig! no, you're even worse than a pig, because at least those perverted freaks would acknowledge it while you pretended to be sothing else... I thought you were a nice guy." She got teary eyed.
"Calm down! I was just joking! I just took a wild guess, I didn't know it was actually white." He exclaid calmly trying to avoid getting a slap to the face.
"Really?" She sniffed.
"Really, in fact, let's rule out see through and every possible trait related to eyes. I don't feel anything weird in my eyes and they didn't change color or anything." Uriel replied.
"Hang on a minute... now that you ntion it, the reason why traits are called like that is because most of them are related to a physical change. So are not so evident, maybe I should... examine your body and see if there's anything unusual." Heat rising up to her cheeks.
"Who's the pervert now, uh?" Uriel chuckled, but refused politely. He didn't like the idea of being naked in front of a girl.
They kept trying all sorts of different traits and abilities until it was dark already, but all their experints resulted in failure.
"Hey, at least we had fun..." She said trying to cheer up her friend.
"It was fun." Uriel said trying to hide his disappointnt behind a friendly smile.
"Hey! there's sothing we didn't test, although I don't know if it will be possible to do it now." She hurried up to say trying to find an excuse to hang out with him again.
"What is it?" Uriel's curiosity was piqued.
"What about weapon mastery? It's going to be difficult since guns and weapons are forbidden on campus but..."
"Not all of them, I actually have a knife on at all tis!" Uriel said with intense emotion as he produced a small swiss army knife from his pocket.
"What!? That's not a weapon, it's a tool." She said looking down at the old knife. "It is beautiful though." She had to admit that it was masterfully crafted and it possessed beautiful carvings.
"You could say it's an antique, it was passed down to when I was a child."
"Wow, giving a knife to a child seems like an irresponsible thing to do."
"Maybe, but if not for this knife I would have nothing to rember them from..."
His face beca sour as he thought back at the ti when he received the knife as a gift from his parents. It was his single most valuable possession, not only because it was aningful to him, but also because it was truly beautiful and well preserved. If he sold it to a collector he could make as much tens of thousands credits, maybe even more.
Then, right in front of their incredulous look, the knife disappeared into thin air.
"WHAT!?" They both yelled.
"it disappeared! I saw it disappear!? Did you hide it?" dusa asked.
"No, I don't have it anymore, it's just not there." Uriel was flabbergasted.
"Can you make it appear again!?" dusa's excitent leaked out of her glimring eyes.
"I don't know, I don't even know how did I make it disappear." With that, he closed his eyes and focused on the knife, then it appeared on his hand just like before.
"Wow! This is so cool! I don't know if it's good for battle, but your trait would be a killer in parties!"
"Parties? yeah, like I'd ever get invited to one." He scoffed.
"Try sothing else, here, can you make this disappear too?" She said as she handed him a bottle of water.
"No, it's not working."
"What about this?" one by one she handed him all of her belongings but nothing else disappeared.
Still, Uriel was finally able to activate his trait and that was good enough for him. He had also docunted the whole process in case it could prove to be useful later.
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