My Trash Ability

"Huh! That's it."

I never heard anything like this before. Every person who was blessed reported to have heard some words or sounds. But what did I get? I didn't hear anything.

Father was looking forward to it. So, what will I say? I thought.

Door opened and I walked out without understanding anything.

Priest and father were waiting outside.

"How was it?" Priest with a gentle smile on his face asked.

"I don't know."

"What happened son? What did you get for this ability?" Father worriedly asked.

Looking up to his face, I said everything that happened, "I didn't hear anything from gods or goddesses. But I saw a beautiful woman. She approached me and placed her hands on my head and disappeared."

"Hmmm. How strange! This has never happened before. Even if it was an Unknown type ability, you should have heard something. It is usually the ability you hear and understand to use it. Was there nothing you heard, Zero,huh?"

Priest was shocked too.

"There was nothing."

"Really. then I should record and report this to the Head of Priest."

Father approached me and held me.

"Son, don't be sad. You'll eventually find out about it. Maybe it is an ancient type of ability."

"I hope so."

Priest went to bring my card to prove my ability.

"Here it's your card."

The place and colour which indicated the type of ability was a little off from that of Unknown type but only one thing besides my name was " ??? of ??? "

Blank and question mark.

"We are also unsure of what the ability is but from the colour it is clear that it is Unknown ability."

My hope suddenly shattered and I remembered all the things which I thought of doing. All money earning plans and monster hunt went to shit with that.

We had nothing left to do there so we left. Father took me to the market to cheer me up.

"Cheer up boy. It's not like you don't have anything."

"But father... I really wanted to get a new blessing and..."

"I know you care about us but what can be done? Leave it to the time. You'll find what you got."

"Father... what if I didn't get anything or this Unknown ability I got is not even useful and..."

As we were moving through the crowd, the bullies of our town heard what I said.

"Oh look! trash boy of the village with no strength and only farming skills got trash ability."

"Hahaha yes. trash boy deserves trash ability. Look how manly my flying ability is."

Another among them was quiet but his eyes were screaming the word, "Trash."

And another reason I desperately wanted a new and strong ability was to punish those trash bullies.

They would flaunt their abilities all over the place and bully the weak children.

Even though what they have is only Common ability. They boast that it is Rare or even Ancient.

I didn't want to talk to them and walked feigning ignorance.

"Oh Did you just ignore us?"

One of the bullies named Jeid spoke about being pissed off. And suddenly one of them pulled my hands and slammed on the ground.

"Hahahaha " all of them laughed as I filled with dirt all over.

No one around helped with anything but only laughed unseemingly.

Father approached me and helped me get up. I hurt my ankle.

We couldn't do anything as father's taming ability wouldn't work on them and I don't even know what my ability is.

As I started walking limping, they again burst,

"Look look. Limping Trash in the market."

Ignoring them we moved towards home.

........

AT THE TEMPLE, PRIEST'S OFFICE.

"What do you mean? It is all a question mark and the crystal ball has a crack on it."

A person from the communication crystal ball spoke surprised.

"Yes! I investigated every possibility and looked at every book but there's no record of it."

"And you think it is above Ancient but not just any other trash Unknown ability?"

"Yes. Because when I entered the crystal room to retrieve his card, it was shining black not the colour of light blue which represents the Unknown type. I was shocked but soon while returning it changed its colour to that of Unknown and an ability which was blurred appeared with a question mark too."

"Urgh! There are already various tasks left to do and now this. I don't think it will pose any threat but keep an eye on him. If it is as you say then we can't let any other organisation take him this time."

"Yes. And what do we do regarding the crack in the crystal ball? It couldn't be repaired with my restoration scrolls made by our institution too."

"I will dispatch a team to look for it. Keep doing your work diligently."

Communication ball stopped shining and the priest closed the door and left for the library.

AT THE LIBRARY OF TEMPLE

"Oh Priest. How are you?"

"I am fine. Have you searched for the books I requested?"

"Yes. They are placed at your usual reading place."

"Oh thank you. And please ask the kitchen staff to bring me my drink too."

"Okay."

When the receptionist left for the kitchen, Priest looked at his burned hand.

What is this power? My hand is not healing as if it was cursed to be lifeless. And it's spreading too.

He muttered as he looked tense and dashed to his usual place.

On the table, among various books, there were books about the past and ability catalogue.

He sits holding his hand with a worried look.

He was lost in thought as the receptionist approached with his drink.

"...st...iest....Priest!"

"huh! Ah! What is it?"

"Your drink!"

Hiding his burnt hand, he held the cup and looked at the receptionist with sweats all over his face.

"What happened sir?"

"what?!"

Priest was flustered for no reason. And he was panting heavily.

"You are sweating so much and panting. Did you see a ghost or something?"

Receptionist teased him and left.

Priest came to his senses and wiped his face and drank his drink as he thought about the past he just had a flashback of.