Reincarnated as a step-dad in a fantasy world

Chapter 102 : Residual blast (2)

"COMA? I thought you said she only suffered minor wounds!" exclaimed Alex, momentarily forgetting his own pain.

"Calm down, as I mentioned, she isn't severely injured. We've already treated her wounds, though she remains unconscious. Nevertheless, her life isn't at risk; it's as if she's resting after exerting herself."

Hearing his father's explanation, Alex calmed down.

"And now what ? What are we going to do ?" Wondered Alex.

"Nothing, we are just going to wait for your sister to wake up, then we will try to understand what happened" replied Theodore, already returning to his book.

'I guess we don't have much of an alternative,' sighed Alex while closing his eyes to sleep.

Time passed, and it took three weeks for Amelia to finally awaken from her coma state, even then she was still weak and had to wait for one week to fully recover.

When asked what happened, she essentially described the same events as Alex, except she claimed she could control the luminous particles, though she didn't understand why it exploded.

To truly understand what occurred, their father decided to replay the entire day. He called the two experts who had fought on that day and ordered them to reenact the battle exactly as it happened.

As for Amelia, he instructed her to see if she could observe those particles again. Just like last time, she could see them perfectly, while Alex and Theodore couldn't see anything.

"Try to merge them together like last time" instructed Theodore.

"But dad-"

"Don't worry, I will protect her with my mana" 

Following that brief exchange, Amelia began merging the luminous particles around her. Just like before, they became visible to Alex and his father as they fused together.

As the merging continued around Amelia, the particles suddenly exploded!

Fortunately, Theodore did as he said and protected Amelia from the explosion.

She came out of the explosion unscathed, but a moment later, she lost consciousness.

"It's as I guessed" sighed Theodore as he caught Amelia before she fell.

"What's your conclusion?" asked Alex as he took the unconscious Amelia from his father and carried her in a princess hold.

"Those particles are energy, more specifically residual energy, as for how she could control those residual energies..." he glanced at Amelia and continued "...it's an ability of hers, her third ability"

"I see" replied Alex.

"You don't seem as surprised as I thought you would be" remarked Theodore.

"Well, I had a doubt that it would be something like that, so it doesn't surprise me that much, what is bogging me is why she loses consciousness each time she uses this ability".

"It's quite obvious; her body can't keep up, which is why every time she uses it, she falls unconscious".

"It does make sense" said Alex as he started walking towards Amelia's room.

His father followed him, and soon Amelia was lying on her bed.

"And now what ?" Asked Alex.

"Now that we know what this ability is and how it affects her, she will simply never use it" replied Theodore with a somber expression.

"It won't be easy to convince her to abandon her ability" said Alex with a chuckle.

"I'm not saying that she should abandon it, just that until her body can support her using this ability, it's better to forget about it and not use it" replied Theodore.

Two weeks later, when Amelia woke up, Alex and his father filled her in on about her ability and then forbade her from using this ability.

At first, she wanted to throw a tantrum, but they calmed her by explaining to her that she could use it when her body got stronger.

This is why, now that she has finally used this ability, everyone is shocked, as nobody had ever heard about it before as Theodore had forbidden them from speaking about it to others.

'If her Cell master ability can be called a cheat, then I don't even know how to address this one, even now I don't have a clue on how to deal with this ability' sighed Alex.

Residual blast allowed Amelia to control the residual energy of every ability that she wanted, and the explosion that she could cause had characteristics of the residual energy she used.

How can one counter such a broken ability, knowing that there was residual energy even in a seemingly inactive environment!

The only weakness of this ability is the fact that it feed on stamina rather than on mana, but even that weakness is relative, if someone like Alex that can enhance his stamina with points got their hands on such an ability, then that person would become a real menace for his enemies.

"Hey, do you know what this thing she used was ?" Asked Talia.

The moment they heard her question, everyone turned to Alex, wanting to know what Amelia did.

Amelia's future opponents were even more concentrated than the rest, since it was them that would have to go against this dangerous power of Amelia, so, better gather some information.

Alas, Alex's answer disappointed them.

"No comment"

"Tsk, useless" growled the participants.

Meanwhile

"The first battle ended with Amelia winning!" Exclaimed Adrian.

"Seeing how you easily won, I'm feeling a little embarrassed to have asked you to give up if you didn't want to be hurt" said Ector with a bitter smile.

"Haha, don't worry about that" replied Amelia with a smile.

After that, the two of them walked out of the arena while the next fighters made their way to the center of the arena.

"It's one win for me!" Said Amelia as she took the seat at the extremity, next to Alex.

"Congratulations, you did well" replied Alex while patting Amelia on the head.

"Can I have a kiss as a reward ?" 

"Didn't we already establish that you would receive a reward only if you got to the final?"

"Pretty please?" Asked Amelia with puppy eyes.

"Sigh, okay, but only on the cheek for now" whispered Alex as he gave Amelia a kiss on her cheek.

"It will do for now~" replied Amelia with a blush.

The weird interaction between the two siblings did not go unnoticed by the others, it's just that they decided to chalk it off as the two of them being close, but only gods would know what their reactions would be if they knew that Alex was actually fondling her ass secretly!

'Ahh, so soft!'