Kara blinked in surprise, taken aback by his request. "Use it?" she repeated, her voice ced with fusion. "But... I don't have the skill anymore. I lost it when I switched to the Vital Sage css."

  Save her a patient look. "I know. But who said you ot use it anymore?"

  Kara hesitated, feeling a wave of uainty. How could she use a skill she no longer possessed? It didn't make sense. Yet, there was something in Sora's gaze—a calm fidehat made her want to try, even if it seemed impossible.

  Taking a deep breath, Kara closed her eyes and trated. She reached deep within herself, searg for the familiar feeling of casting Heal, the way she had done tless times before. She could almost feel it, like a distant memory, but nothing happened.

  "I 't—" she started, but Sora cut her off.

  "Don't focus on the skill itself," he said, his voice low but firm. "Focus on what it did. Remember how it did. Ask your body, ask your muscles and look for those memories. You have seen the process, you have felt the process."

  Kara's brow furrowed, but she rying to follow his guidance. She emptied her mind of the teical aspects, the meics of the skill, and focused instead on the feeling—what Heal had represented. A warmth, a flow of energy that mended wounds, restored vitality. She focused on that sensation, allowing the io guide her mana.

  Suddenly, she felt a spark. It wasn't as strong as it used to be, but it was there—a faint pulse of healing energy. Her eyes flew open in surprise.

  "I… I felt something," she whispered.

  Sora smiled slightly, pleased. "Good. That's a start. Your body remembers, even if the system says you don't have the skill anymore. Now, we'll work ing that bad pushing you even further."

  Kara looked at him, still shocked by the realization that she could tap into her lost abilities, even if it was just a spark for now. "How did you know that would work?"

  Sora shrugged. "I tried it before. I've been in situations where I had to push past what the system allowed me to do. The limits are there, but they're not absolute. You just have to learn to think beyond them."

  He leaned back slightly, crossing his arms. "Try it"

  Sora frowned as he watched Kara struggle with her attempts to el healing energy. Her progress was excruciatingly slow, far more than he had anticipated. He k wasn't supposed to be easy, but it shouldn't have been this difficult either. Five hours had passed, and although she was improving, it was inch by inch. Something was off.

  "Stop for a moment," Sora said, his voice steady but firm.

  Kara, drenched i and visibly exhausted, paused her efforts, looking at him questioningly. Sora's mana eyes had been her ily, trag the flow of energy in and out of her body. He could see the process she was going through—filtering raw mana before refining into life force. That first step was , but the sed? The moment she transformed mana into life force, it vanished from his sight. It became something else, something he couldn't track. Life force wasn't ordinary mana; it was airely different kind of energy, ohat he had no trol over.

  "The life force... It is too much to handle for a basic heal. I don't know how to solve this problem. It feels like I'm forced to create something new, as if the old recipe is outdated."

  Her new css allowed her to have an incredible ratio when filtering the mana, allowio get much more life force for the same amount of mana as another healer. However, this increase of efficy threw off her familiarity with the process of using Heal.

  Despite his mana manipution expertise, Sora couldn't intervene directly. All he could do was guide her on how to better filter the raw mana, but life force—she was on her own with that.

  Frustrated but intrigued, Sora's mind wandered back to an idea he had when she mentioned her ability to manipute time. Maybe there was another way.

  "Let's try something different," Sora said, stepping forward with a determined glint in his eye. "Use your innate skill. Accelerate time around yourself while you practice."

  Kara hesitated, her face sg in fusion. "But… the time-bending zone will be mana starved. How I traihere's no mana to work with?"

  "Don't worry about that," Sora said, waving her s away. "I'll ha. Just focus on increasing the speed whenever you want. And take this space bag."

  Still unsure, Kara nodded and created a small time-bending zone, just enough to enpass herself. The zone was tiny, barely half a meter wide and a meter high, but it would do. She activated her skill, accelerating time to ten times its normal flow. The familiar sensation of mana draining quickly within the zo her, but she ig, pushing forward with her training.

  Suddenly, she felt something strange—a massive surge of mana flowing into the zone, almost overwhelming her sehe oppressive feeling of being mana-starved vanished, repced by a flood of energy that invigorated her. She g Sora and saw him standing outside the bubble, one finger gently toug the edge of the time field. A colossal stream of mana poured from his fiip into the zone.

  "So that's what he meant," Kara thought, her heart rag. Remembering the description of his supreme skill, she realized that Sora could el unimaginable amounts of mana. He was feeding the bubble directly with more than enough energy to sustairaining. 'What a monster...'

  Seeing the opportunity, Kara pushed the time flow further. Twenty times. Thirty times. A huimes. And still, the ma ing. How was this possible? She was training 100 seds inside for every sed that passed outside, a Sora's mana input was more than enough. His ability to gee and manipute mana was unlike anything she had ever seen. She cautiously pushed the boundaries further.

  A huimes.

  At a huimes the normal speed, the world outside seemed frozen, but inside, everythi normal. Kara's mind was pletely focused on honing her trol over life ford refining her healing abilities. She pushed herself harder, using the stant flow of mana Sora provided to experiment, fail, and refine again and again.

  Outside the bubble, Sora observed her progress. He could see the immense amount of mana she was abs, but it didn't bother him in the slightest. His mana regeion was absurd, more than enough to keep up with her. He watched her as she sat cross-legged, fog deeply. Occasionally, she would stand up and couldn't move in the cramped space, and every so often, she would close her eyes and fall asleep for just three seds before waking up again, adjusting the time spaostly surround Sora's finger and her own body. He would see her finish her food in a few cycles. It seemed like she didn't prepare much. She opened his space bag and discovered the stack of food ihere was enough for 5 years.

  After a few minutes of , Sora stopped paying close attention. She was clearly making progress, and there was o mianage.

  As Sora waited, passing the time while Kara was immersed in her accelerated training bubble, he found himself growing increasingly bored. He stood outside the time field, watg as the world moved on around them, with only the faint hum of mana flowing from his fiip into the bubble.

  But after a while, even that lost its y. He gnced down at Hiyoko, the little bird perched on his shoulder, preening its feathers and tilting its head curiously at the strange sight of Kara in her frozen training.

  "Bored too, huh?" Sora murmured, scratg Hiyoko's head gently.

  Hiyoko chirped softly, fpping its wings in agreement.

  Sora smiled. "y some cards?" he asked, pulling a deck from his pocket.

  Hiyoko's eyes brightened, and it immediately hopped down from his shoulder to the ground, ready for some a. Sora shuffled the deck, then crouched down and id out the cards, dealing them between himself and the bird.

  The game wasn't anything fancy—just a simple game of matg pairs. Hiyoko, with its sharp eyes, turned out to be an uedly good oppo, pig the correct cards with its beak far more often than not. It even chirped victoriously whe won a round, hoppiedly.

  "Not bad, Hiyoko," Sora chuckled, watg the little bird py with an iy that made him ugh. "Maybe I'll train you to be a gambler instead of the ultimate bird king."

  They pyed several rounds, Hiyoko sometimes hopping around in a circle when it got excited, and at other times nuzzling Sora's hand when he shuffled the cards. It was a small distra from the long wait, but it did the job of keeping Sora eained.

  Every now and then, he gnced over at Kara's bubble, cheg on her progress. Time passed swiftly for them, but Sora and Hiyoko seemed to have settled into a strange rhythm—pying cards, making light versation (though Hiyoko mostly chirped), and watg the world move by.

  It wasn't much, but the small moments helped break up the long hours. Hiyoko's antics, whether it ying cards or simply fluttering around him, kept the mood light, allowing Sora to enjoy the dowween Kara's interaining.

  Three days ter, Sora felt the time bubble colpse with a sudden pop. Kara emerged, and Sora immediately sehe difference. She radiated with life for overwhelming amount of it. For the first time, Sora felt that Kara could actually be a threat to him if she wao be. Her entire presence had transformed.

  Her hair had grown longer, nearly 20 timeters more than whearted, and there rofound ge in her demeanor. Her eyes, sharp and steady, carried a depth of wisdom and strength that hadn't been there before. It was like her mind had gohrough years of battle, training, and refle in the span of a few days.

  Kara smiled faintly, her voice low and slightly shaky. "It feels like... forever since we st spoke."

  Sora, his eyes narrowing slightly in approval, crossed his arms. "You've ged."

  Kara nodded, a strange calm washing over her. "I tried so hard.... Recreating a skill was so difficult... But the reward... It is worth it..."

  Save her a slow nod, impressed but not surprised. "Good. I'm happy for you"

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