Change: New World

A Unique Magic Skill

“Gemini Blue?” I audibly repeated the skill name with a hint of curiosity in my voice.

It was an odd sounding skill that’s to be sure, but I didn’t voice that opinion out loud, considering it might hurt Cielle’s feelings otherwise. Although I doubt she’s that sensitive.

Off to my side, I saw Cielle nod her head while her eyes visibly went from left to right. Looking closely, I could tell she was still busily reading over the new information on her skill.

After a while, Her eye’s refocused back on me.

“So, what does it do?” I asked nonchalantly, not really expecting an answer.

By this point, the two of us were still strangers, and although I might have gone out of my way to help Hina, since its common human courtesy, I didn’t necessarily trust the two girls in front of me.

This logic was fortified by my years of constant isolationism. When you’ve never had anybody close you could trust, its kind of hard to start now.

Besides, I already had a general guess as to what it could do. Well, no, that statement’s not accurate. The only thing I knew was it had something to do with healing. Following the trend with my own unique skill, [All Heal], then the common conclusion would be that [Gemini Blue] was also a skill somehow related to healing.

But it seems like Cielle is a bit more open and less cautious than the paranoid me.

She opened her mouth as if to speak, but no sound came out. Her expression indicated that it wasn’t that she didn’t want to explain, but rather she didn’t know how.

She closed her mouth into a tight frown, squinted, and tilted her head in a thinking position.

After a while, she finally spoke up.

“Well, it can heal… sort of.”

It was my turn to frown. What did she mean by sort of?

Seeing my facial expression, Cielle frowned as well, her originally haggard mess of silky black hair drooped down to cover her whole face as she looked down, and crossed her arms.

Seemingly having come up with no solution, Cielle just sighed.

“It… it might be faster if I just show you.” She stated simply while her body moved into an awkward position in front of her sister.

By the way, it seems to me that Hina had become our sort of pseudo guinea pig for all things healing related, from hp potions to healing skills… I won’t say anything to Cielle about it though, since I don’t think she’s realized we’ve started using her injured sister like that… For now I’ll let it continue, mostly since its convenient.

Cielle moved her hands awkwardly towards her sister. Her hands palmed out, almost touching the clothes on her sister’s body.

Through the mat of hair blocking her face, I could see that her expression was also a bit awkward, as if wondering whether such a pose was truly necessary.

In a low, and soft voice, two words leaked out from her lips,

“Gemini Blue…”

In the next instant something blue and transparent emerged from her outstretched palms. It was also rather viscose and was shaped like a misshapen bubble.

It had a pale glow to it, much like the color and vibrancy of the status windows.

The blue-bubble-blob congregated at the center between her palms to form one big cohesive bubble. Small flickers of light could be seen dancing around freely in this blue universe.

Once the bubbles had joined together, they then extended out slowly and began to spread onto Hina.

Cielle’s expression showed a bit of apprehension at this point. From the looks of things, it seems like she didn’t quite trust her ability, which was only natural. Although after a bit, her stance got… steadier, as if to show her own conviction.

She continued on with her weird skill.

The bubble blob seemed to thin as it seeped into Hina’s clothes then onto her flesh. In a little under 10 seconds, every trace of [Gemini Blue], from the pale blue bubble to the tiny sparkles, were now gone. They had completely entered Hina’s body doing whatever it was they were meant to do.

We waited in silence. I wasn’t quite sure what was happening and Cielle looked just as confused as me.

After 30 seconds of silence, the blue began to seep out from every pour of Hina’s skin.

I heard Cielle let out a relieved sigh. She swiped the cold sweat on her forehead and continued to glare at what was happening.

What seeped out this time wasn’t the original viscose liquid bubble but rather a fine mist of light blue. The blue floated along, as if waiting for the rest of it to leave Hina’s body before it began to congregate above her.

The mist slowly patched together and swirled into conformed unison. Slowly, its shifty form changed and once again the familiar viscose bubble liquid was now harmlessly floating in mid air. Although there were some noticeable differences.

For one, the once pale blue was no darker, more harsher and less pleasing to the eyes. The specks of light which danced around before were now nowhere to be seen, instead what replaced them were masses of dark black. Black so dark that they even stood out from the dark blue of the bubble.

“Whew~...” Cielle breathed out a sigh of relief after confirming her first use of her new ability resulted in a success.

Although, I was still a bit confused, seeing Cielle’s relieved face, I somewhat understood that at least her ability hadn’t failed.

Thinking this type of skill was hp related, I immediately went and checked Hina’s status once again.