"That idiot, what the hell is he thinking not taking the cab,"
I asked Claudia... With an angry expression.
"I don't know, Ethan he is after all, your little brother, isn't it your duty to look after him?"
Claudia jokingly asked me. It irritated me when she said that. But still, the fact remains she is right.
"I get a bad feeling about him, it's like he's hiding something from me, you know."
"Don't worry my love, Nero isn't a kid anymore he is a A class knight after all."
Claudia said giving me a gentle smile.
"Last week I heard him again, Claudia "
"Ah jeez Ethan, what did he say this time, was he talking to this goddess of his that no one else has seen?"
"Yeah and now he has given her a name as well., Celestia he said."
"What! Isn't that the Goddess of creation?"
"Yeah it is, I'm getting worried about him day by day, Claudia. What if Nero becomes like that man? Will I have to kill him?"
"You are overthinking this, my love this has been going on for like since he was ten years old right? So if he falls into madness he might already have, don't you think?"
"I guess you might be right...."
Before I got the chance to finish talking an explosion happened outside startling both me and Claudia.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? "
I screamed and ran out to the balcony to see. A massive fire was raging from the side where our house was at "Nero" thinking to myself I stopped time and started to run towards the exit of Claudia's house and towards our..
'shit just a little bit longer hold on, I'm coming."
I thought while running.
It has been ten minutes since I started to run towards our house.. and I started to bleed from my nose.
"Shit... Shit... Shit.... If I could keep this on for a little longer" I thought while running.
I may be strong but if I keep using Time pause then it's certain that I might die.. This damn backlash.
After a couple of minutes of running, I had to stop because the backlash was getting worse and worse. Unable to do anything else I had to deactivate my skill.
Moments later I was kneeling on the ground gasping for air. But I stood up and pushed through the pain.
"No matter what I must get to him." I said to myself while bleeding from the nose and eyes. The damn backlash of the Time skill.
When I got to our house it was already too late, the house was blown to pieces and Nero was no where to be found. No matter how long I looked and how hard I couldn't find him.
And since I used my abilities for too long I couldn't rewind time and see what happened here.