Chapter 23

"Abilities and powers?"

"Yes."

"Whose?"

"Yours, Duero."

What?! What does he mean powers? I do not understa-..... I am not following at all.

"I do not have any powers. What are you talking about?"

"Have you not noticed until now? That moment at the diner, with that human called Linfu. Are you saying that you really did not experience anything?"

"What do you mean? When I got freezed? Or ….." what? It is just hitting me now. I can recall something familiar like that.

At the diner…..

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"Let me lend you my strength. Let me help you….. release your true powers." 

YES! LEND ME STRENGTH TO PROTECT EVERY SINGLE SOUL!

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"So wait… the one who lend me the powers was you?"

"Yes, it certainly was me. But I just helped you. Some of those powers were actually yours." He talks about it again. What does he mean by these powers? Why does he say that I have it?

"You are saying that those were my powers?"

"Yes, Duero, they were your powers. I wanted to lend you my strength to release those powers."

"But you earlier said that I had to use the Linndon crystal to awaken them, right? How did we synchronize?"

"It generally happens slowly but since you were going through the portal, which was bending time and space, the process was fast and you experienced it through the journey to the this current world."

Huh. So that was what the headache was about, no wonder it was awfully painful.

"The headache that I felt when I passed through the portal, was that it?"

"Yes. That was our powers trying to match and get into a stable state."

"What about just now? The part at stairs, it felt wobbly and they seems to move. It gave me one hell of a headache. What was that?"

"Oh no, that was not me."

"Then? Who was it?"

"It was you. You just got too drunk, that is all."

"So why did you appear now? In my dream. Is this happening because I am drunk? Then again, that could be possible." I put my hand upto my chin to think about that very thought of this whole thing being just a dream. But it seems all too real.

"It is no dream, that I can definitely assure you. You just happened to be in trouble and I thought it was a perfect opportunity to release the powers that was being locked up inside you. And you fell asleep fast, which gave another chance to talk to you in your sleep, as this is more efficient and you would believe if you actually are witnessing it, even if it is a dream."

"So what happens if I wake up. I mean we have been talking for way too long now and I think the time is too late now." Usually in dreams, everything takes a very long time. It may seem like a small and short moment and it would be but time moves way faster for some reason.

"It is not late." He speaks again in his loud voice.

"What does that mean? How come it is not late?"

"I have powers to travel across dimensions, to destroy most things in the universe and to bring peace to everything, surely I can slow down time in your dream."

Wow,"How powerful are you?" I am really impressed. 

"More powerful than a human mind can comprehend. But you are different, obviously."

What? Different? This whole dream has become a question and answer series. I might as well learn all about everything before this dream ends.

"How am I different? I am just a human, from earth."

"You can use powers, you can use spells, you have a dragon inside you and this is not just about when you are on this world but when you were on earth. You are different."

He is right. Why can I use those powers when I am just a human? Why could use and chant spells to open the portal?

"So, tell me. How am I different?" I have to know.

"Your great grandfather was never a human to begin with."

"Aaaa" *snap* I snap my fingers as I realize that, "You did mention that before."

"Yes, I did mention it before. He is from a different world and the beings on that world could use magic, spells and powers just like this world can. He got married to a human on earth who was fully aware of his powers and his backstory and was willing to spend her life with a man who was never a human to begin with."

"Great grandmother.." 

"Your mother also was aware of this situation when she married your father. It is said to be a tradition in the Linndon family, that both sides must know the capabilities and existence of the dragon inside."

"I did not know that." But it makes sense. They did leave together to another world.

"Hmmmmm … so what? What kind of species am I ?" 

"Well that is a question, to which the answer is unknown to me. I do not know what kind of species your great grandfather was."

"Well, do any of your kind, do know about this?"

"No, not really. We were not told by your great grandfather. He did not really like the idea of letting other world know anything about his species, except…" he stops there.

"Except what? You can't leave me hanging on damn cliffhanger." 

"Except his family. That is why I was surprised to know that you did not know about this."

"Well he did not tell me. Is there any way to know? I mean did he leave some clues or puzzles or something. He must have."

"I do not know, as I am not aware of that topic nor do I know anything more about it. You are probably the one to figure it out."

 It is upto me, eh. Very well then. I must find out what kind of mixed breed species I am , if there is possible way.

"Thank you for this info."

"You do not need to thank me."

"No. I really do." Without Ryouku I would not have gotten this many information in just one go or in a time span of days or even months.

"But if I wanted to know more about these powers. How do I contact or communicate with you? Do I have to sleep or get too drunk or something? Is there like a procedure to get myself in this black void where I can talk to you?" I look around the 'pitch black empty as it can be void' as I ask that question.

"You do not need to come here just to talk to me." He says.

"Why do I not need to come here?"

"Well you could come here, but to talk that is unnecessary."

"Okay … so how do I talk to you? You can read my mind but I can't read yours. Right?" Can I read his mind? Probably not.

"No. You can't read my mind." He read my mind just now,"You can communicate with me through your mind itself."

"But how? How do I do that? I did not learn to do that anywhere?"

"And you do not need to learn it. Remember at the diner I talked to you? Through your mind?"

Yeah, I do remember. "Yeah …. What about it?"

"And you did respond to me. You could hear me talk and I could hear you talk."

Little by little, I am getting a hang of this. I can understand this situation now, by connecting the dots. It is a little hard to comprehend something if you do not believe it can happen, at the very least in real life.

"So just like that I can talk to you," he continues,"I am always there in your mind. You can talk whenever you like and I will hear it. You do not need any procedure nor do you have to learn one. It is that simple."

"Oh, okay." That is pretty cool, to be honest, "But if you could talk to me through my mind, why did you not do it before?"

"Like I said, our powers had to synchronize." 

"Yeah but," he is right but there is something on my mind, "Then why did you wait till the fight in the diner? Why not just communicate with me when I dropped in to this world. Why did you not do that? Could you not do that?"

"Well I could get into your mind and talk to you, after you had arrived into this world.

"But why did you not do that?" He could have just told me everything at that time. It would have been early and all.

"If I had done that you might have lost your mind, if looked at a normal human's perspective." He continues, "Think about it, how would normal people react to hearing a voice in your head. They might think they are hearing voices because they are insane. Even if you got through the portal, it would have struck you differently than now."

He is right. I would have been terrified and probably even would have fainted.

"So that is why you waited for this opportunity?"

"Hmmmm" he hums loudly as if showing that he agrees with what I just said, "Talking to you in your sleep is an efficient way, since what happens in dreams are more believable, due to the way people's subconscious mind thinks."

"So when will this dream or something of that sort end. I am getting accustomed to this no gravity floating feeling, and I do not if it is a good thing."