I spring into action the moment I feel the familiar certainty.
"Ha!"
As I immediately use my left leg, trying to hit the rock before it crashes to the ground.
The feeling that I will actually hit it is very faint, but through my 'karma vision' I can adjust my actions to reach my intended future!
This is why I took my sweet time trying different poses and measurements back then.
Since the rock was thrown with the intention of hitting it with the left leg in the first place, I made sure to put as much power in it.
Furthermore, I made sure my jump would throw it in a direction that made it easier to hit it with the left leg.
The moment my right leg steps back and crosses the point of no return, I use that step as a foothold and prepare for a kick with my other leg still beyond the point of no return.
In this way, the 'karma vision' shows a faint but definite connection between the rock and my left leg. All I have to do is hit it.
With the most careful and accurate maneuver, I successfully make contact with the rock, it bounces off immediately over my head, I willingly step back this time.
The first Karma became faint and disappeared the moment my leg was in motion, at the same time the second karma became much 'heavier' and clear. But still too faint.
I 'see' the double helical structure, swirling like being held by ballet performing a rope dance.
Like a comet with twin tails and a bulging pair of antenns, it passes over me as I keep up with its speed, two, three... five steps, I am just above the corpse again, while the rock is beyond 4 meters by now, about to fall...
But with the momentum built by using the base karma's pull...
bump
drag
I drag the suit along with my left leg, which results in the suit flying just a few steps diagonally.
That is enough.
I immediately charge towards the suit, more specifically I jump over it, using my left leg as a foothold this time.
Finally mid air, I reach out my right hand...
In my vision from few seconds ago, I saw the connection between my left leg and the rock become complete.
Yes, the point of using the left leg was not to kick it towards somewhere close and catch it again.
That would be possible but it would just be an extra step before the corpse undresses me again.
What I wanted was to show and PROVE was This!
I land on my legs using the corpse as a footing.
The rock shines it's multi-color lights, it seems much brighter than usual, maybe it's just the victory flair in my mind
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After my crashout back then, I seriously went back to the same routine and was surprisingly able to get calm in a few trials.
Maybe the siphoning suit-sauna made a difference, but at the same time, I had the idea of trying to understand how and why after wearing the suit does the base Karma get siphoned.
Unsurprisingly, I didn't get an answer, but repeatedly doing those trials increased my sensitivity to my own actions and their expected outcomes.
It was at that time, that I really started to limit the trials, because to me my own actions became predictable.
It was as if not just my will, but my very future and choices were at threat.
But eventually I had to wear it again sooner or later, even at the edge of the 3 meter boundary, it only took 15 minutes for me to gradually close about 3 feet.
After that, the longer I delay, the closer I got, at the same time, the closer I got, the less time I could delay and the more distance I closed.
All in all, I couldn't even resist for more than 34 minutes, which is my record for now.
I had to find a way to get out of this situation, so I tried to focus on the sensation of 'siphoning', I thought:
'If I could replicate even a fraction of that feeling, then at least my will would be strong enough to force a stalemate. An eternal tug of war!'
Sadly, I couldn't do it, BUT I found an even more amazing use of this sensation.
Since I was already pretty proficient in predicting my movements now, I tried to experiment how accurately I could do so.
As expected, the future turned out to be petty and uncertain!
With this as my main motivation and direction, I started experimenting with the lucky seven-colored rock.
Before that as I was experimenting, I even used my shoes, blazer, buttons and other parts of my attire I dare not mention...
Who cares! It's not like anybody's watching!
As a result, I trained till I could not longer tell the time.
I seriously don't how much time has passed, even fatigue is easily preserved by the suit, but I still feel a bit weaker compared to when I first came here.
I guess it's not an infinite stamina cheat.
After so many trials, I have two news to share.
One, I decided that the rock is the most sturdy and experimentally fit(decent in throwing) object among all my belongings.
The second and the most amazing news was that now I found a way to use this creepy sensation in an original way!
By that I mean, I could now have some control over my predictions,
If at first it was straight up an unchangeable final destination that suddenly came as a vision.
Now it was me, who decided what I would do, the future I felt was some vague feeling that was 80% accurate most of the time, even 90% if I was dead set on it.
But I still couldn't predict an external objects trajectory, the feelings came from all directions, I wouldn't even know when I would do said thing that I set out to do.
At that moment I first had the idea to use this new skill on the corpse.
What would happen if I used it while wearing the suit?
I didn't try it or even use the suit for even a second longer after wearing since my sensitivity is at all time high and I don't want it to get even higher.
It would disrupt the balance I have reached after so much effort and I feel like I shouldn't actively use this method with the suit.
I still can't control the range of my prediction, with the suit's amplification, if I happen to predict a distant future due to my training, I would have no choice but to walk that path.
A shiver ran down my spine as I imagine myself with a kuudere face, performing fixed tasks.
"If I could refine the vague feelings into a reliable system or a rule of thumb, then maybe after some practice I could use the corpse to predict the near future and get a feel about the corpse's power."
"Okay I guess, it's time."
As I get ready to undres, I feel like trying one last thing, 'Could I now resist the narrow passage, since I now have some control over my actions?'
As I exert pressure to feel a vague future, I feel something I haven't felt even once.
"What is this?"
Thousands of tiny ripples, no like strings colliding 'echo' in my head.
I haven't felt such a sensation that targets only the head, wait-
I try to go back a step and screech
It's not just my head, even walking or any action that diverges creates ripples, what is creating them?
I focus on my mind, and try to feel the echo again, since it's less tasking than resisting to go forward.
"Ah, it's me..."
The echo is from me or my mind from the future, I haven't felt it before because I never tried to challenge this passage before this way.
"I am slightly resisting the future by borrowing the information from future?"
Even though it feels insane, I am doing it right now, though the 'information' is just an nonsensical echo, but the fact remains I gained something from me(mind), a future that I influenced, not the corpse.
But this future, is something not entirely my own, it has a feeling similar to the corpse's.
"My hard earned skill! You dare use your filthy moves on it too!"
Even though I got something out of it, it still pisses me off!
"Oh wait, before I get too close let's see a little more about what's going on."
As I focus my whole being to this event, I gradually begin to understand, no I am made to understand, the truth of this feeling.
At some point I came to feel them, not thousands but hundreds of millions of tingling sensations erupt around me.
They are forcing me to confront reality.
That I cannot escape from this tanglement, yes, it feels as if I am being controlled my strings, my each action determined by their whim.
As I reach closer to the corpse, I feel the familiar certainty but this time, I can 'see' it.
My sensation evolves into a new kind of vision and I see the connection between me and the corpse, inside my chest, the hole.
Strings of infinite length, as thin as rays of individual lights, they cover my vision, at the same time, due their thinness, I can see past them, at the corpse.
Every action I make is a combination of string within this place and no place is free of their reach.
"3 and a half.."
3.5 feet, or just around 1 meter, this is the absolute domain where everything leads to only one Inevitable future.
Me wearing that suit.