What do you see?

"So this is what you're playing at... with your little party trick."

Triss narrowed he eyes as she looked at Escanor.

She saw him the other day and used her powers on him, she saw a faint orange hue over his body.

but now it was completely different, she saw an aura so massive and wavy that she froze.

"what do you see...Triss." jenny put her hand on Triss's shoulder, she obviously knew about her ability being her bestfriend that and she freaked out when Triss started to shine in the middle of her room.

"his aura is so huge compared to the others we saw." Triss then gulped and looked at jenny with a frantic expression on her face.

"What...the...HELL!. Triss you didn't tell me?" frank had a different expression on his face than they expected he looked sad more than anything.

"that's so cool and Escanor you sneaky basterd you thought you can pull a quick one on us too, why don't you show us what you got... I mean without damaging anything of course." frank said tapping Escanor in the shoulder.

"That won't be possible, I apologize but more importantly why are you doing this... Exposing me and your self I mean." escanor was still trying to figure her out.

"hey it's not like we are unique or anything there are at least 20 more people in this compound like us, me and jenny walked around and started to check places out and they could all sense me so it confirmed it." Triss said as jenny was nodding in the background.

"but you are by far the strongest I have seen, the other guy was muscular and huge but you... I'm curious to what your power is, that is all." she leaned back implying that its not of big as a deal as escanor made it to be.

"Some people may not appreciate being probed like that, and you might get a case of curiosity that killed the cat in your hands, but I don't care, just tell me what you plan on doing now." Escanor wanted to leave them but he wants to see what they will do first.

"Stop being so up tight man, chill out." frank said trying to defuse the intensity.

Escanor of course can utilize a few techniques to get people to talk even without transforming and one of them is, his gaze.

he doesn't know how it works but he knows it's not his aura playing in affect, its more of a mind thing, as if he released his aura it would affect the physical world.

so for his gaze he thought its something to do with his pride, so he called it KINGS GAZE.

so that's what he decided to use now for the first time.

He looked at Triss and also leaned back, but Trisses face contorted soon after, then she started having difficulty breathing Escanor was not really hurting her as it's all in her mind.

jenny caught on quick.

"Stop it! please you are hurting her..." escanor decided to go for one last push before he stops.

"dude what the hell are you doing." frank stood up and picked escanor up from his shirt.

"don't touch me." escnnor said as held franks hands.

"Stop it!" Triss shouted and both escanor and frank looked at her.

"Its my fault okay?! Escanor is just being couscous to the extreme, now both of you sit down and let me tell you something."

frank calmed down and Escanor complied and they both sat down.

"Remember when I said that I can see auras and different light spectrums, well i used it on the portal and guess what, that thing is releasing out energy and it's increasing every day i check yesterday and today, I would say 15% increase in its power.

now I don't why this happening but the size is not going up so I came up with an assumption, what ever is in there is coming out.

and if we assume that double the energy is the limit before what ever is in there comes out, i say we have 10 days at most, so me and jenny walked around the compound to scout for people like me and when i sensed them they felt it and some ignored us but others approached us be it curiosity, fear or whatever and some of those people that approached us seemed trust worthy."

She then looked at Escanor who had a surprised expression but it was not for the reason she thought.

"ho ho so you wanna make a band of misfits with no fighting experience and take them to defend the compound when the beasts come out is that it?" escanor said, he was surprised that she hit the nail on the coffin with her deduction skills but it would be sooner than 10 days and she would find out that not all awakened are fit for this life.

"Are you not the same us as us? no offense but your power aside you don't look like a fighter." she said in an musing way.

"I would rather defend my home than run around watching people die." he did not refute her in not being a fighter after all skinny him looked harmless and even if he had experience with dealing with monsters he did not want to reveal that now.

"You... you are the strongest here we could really use you." she is starting to look sincere now.

Escanor thought about it, he would have to reveal himself sooner or later and so would other awakened, he didn't want to run around watching people die and saving a few just so he can escort them to safety as others died, he has to come up with a plan to save them but he would not try too hard saving them, he wanted to appear strong but not too strong for his own good.