Chapter 155

Kyon felt negative emotions in the air and began his first experiment. He walked around, counting on a good harvest, but the black half of his core did not react in any way. No matter how hard he tried, he got nothing.

Kyon concluded that emotions had a "focus." In some unknown way, each released emotion had its own "addressee" to whom they were directed.

{I see ... Going to the circus or the torturer won't help.}

Kyon started experiment number two. He went to the chief robber who had the most swollen face and squatted next to him. He asked him in the tone of a zealous sergeant doing an interrogation:

«Name?»

The leader looked at Kyon as his possible savior.

«I am Guiming! Help me! Save me, please! I will give you useful information! I... I will take you to our treasure! I have the money. Please!»

«No, I won't save you. On the contrary, I will ask my student to torture you even longer and with all her ingeniousness. I do not like you!» - Kyon answered viciously.

«No! N-o-o-o-o. I am begging you! PLEASE!»

Kyon frowned. The core didn't react in any way. But this time he was the initiator.

{What conclusion can be drawn? Weak emotions? No... Definitely not. They are very strong, and Guiming knows that I am the teacher of this demoness. His emotions must be directed to me! But... Maybe I need to convince his soul, not his mind?}

Kyon had to find out how to send emotions in a necessary direction. How to convince a soul that it should send all the emotions to him? The soul relies on the brain, but the brain is already convinced! Then why don't the emotions reach his core?!

Kyon's masters told him not to trouble trouble till trouble troubled him. However, he happened to be in the situation "no pain, no gain."

The case with Kaisen was the fastest and most effective. In a couple of minutes, Kyon defined the relations between them and then humiliated him in front of everyone. All of Kaisen's hatred immediately rushed into Kyon's core.

Kyon went on to experiment number three.

«Just kidding. Guiming, I will let you escape my student if you tell me everything about your gang and where you belong. Everything you know. And remember, if I feel a hint of a lie, I will give you to her mercy at once. Go ahead.» - He pointed to the happy girl knocking the hell out of the next robber.

«Alright, alright. I will tell everything!» - Guiming hastily told everything that he could remember at the moment.

In the end, Kyon learned that the robber was the sixth brother out of seven. The first brother was Sauron, the strongest and most powerful, the head of the entire bandit syndicate. To prove his words, he gave Kyon his precious ring with number 6 on it.

Guiming told Kyon how everything worked. They had divided their territory according to the brothers' ranks. They gave Sauron their profit in exchange for protection and monopoly in the city. Kyon understood that the syndicate was not organized by a complete idiot, but it wasn't a genius, either. They lacked a good formacist who could to mark their people with formations. It was rather dangerous to wear an identification formation, though. A powerful practitioner could sense it, and they were many in the heart of the kingdom. The formations could disguised, hidden under some other kind, and so on, but still, anyone who had enough power and brains could crack the formation and study the code. It was too much trouble. And formatcists like Kyon didn't exist...

Kyon found the information about their regular secret meetings very important. The brothers-leaders gave a considerable percentage of their earnings to Sauron. Guiming shared this fact through his clenched teeth, emphasizing how valuable and truthful it was.

{It's curious. Robbers are the tumor of any kingdom. I can take good advantage of this.} - Kyon felt it could be a big opportunity for him. He took the sound transmitter that Sauron would call sooner or later and hid it in his bosom.

«Am I free? I told you everything I know! Please! Young lord! Let me go…»

Kyon rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

«You tried to get away from the answer at times... But I'm kind. You may go. You are free.» – He went to Guimin and began to untie the rope.

Juno saw the toy that she had saved for last leave right under her nose. She ran up to Kyon and shook demandingly his shoulder.

«Master, you can't do it! He is mine! I will not let you let him go, master!»

«Please, let me go, Sir! I told you everything!» - Guiming pleaded, afraid to meet the raving maniac eyes.

«Back off, little one!» - Kyon roughly pushed the girl away and untied the ropes. - «You are free to go.»

«Thank you! Thank you very much, Sir!» - The man ran on all his weak legs right away.

«MASTER! You... You deserve only my contempt! How could you let the bastard go? The one who craved my body?! The leader of the bandits?!»

{What an asshole! Not a single turn! I know he is grateful he to me, but his emotions do not find the addressee, that is my core!} - Kyon confirmed his guess that he would have to earn the emotions with hard work and proper preparation.

«No, Juno, I was checking his reaction. Now go after him and bring him here.»

Juno blossomed like a sunflower with the first rays of the sun and immediately rushed after him in pursuit.

Soon Kyon heard a heartbreaking cry in the distance.

Juno dragged the battered Guiming back by his hair.

Kyon approached the pale robber and said coldly:

«You know, Guiming, I changed my mind. You are a real piece of shit. Juno, torture him as artfully and painfully as possible. I don't care if he dies, I allow it!»

«Yes, master!» - Juno nodded exultantly and, without delay, hit the robber in the gut.

«Wheeze…» - Guiming lost the air in his lungs. His hope for salvation went out like a candle in the wind. The guy had tricked him.

And again, Kyon's test had failed. - {Fuck, are you kidding me?! A whole sea of emotions, and none of them reaches me!? I guess it's somehow my fault! Why is it so difficult to focus the emotions?!}

Kyon didn't want to accept his failure and went to knock out all the shit out of the robbers personally. No matter how much he tried or how loudly they screamed, his core didn't move!

Kyon was gradually figuring out why it was so, but it only gave him a headache. To focus the emotions on himself, he had to earn them!

Emotions from getting valuable gifts, saving from danger at the last moment, sudden words of gratitude, or bribery didn't work in any way.

The case with Juno in the illusory world was exceptional. Kyon had interacted directly with the girl's soul, not with her mind. The addressee of the emotions was assigned instantly, without any difficulties. His task is to convince the soul!

Beating to death, tortures, insults, any threat to life, unreasonable blackmail, and other things created quick and dirty wouldn't affect his core. The emotions wouldn't find their destination. The soul wouldn't believe it! To make his soul believe, Kyon had ruin someone's life altogether, let them know the reason for the tortures and Kyon's tricks. Shooting the breeze or beating someone on the spot would never work. The soul must understand what for and why! Only then it could work.

And here comes into conflict the principle of paying off his debts. Kyon couldn't fill up the dark core with emotions neglecting this law. He couldn't do someone undeserved evil without returning the good.

{Damn it... I'll have to work hard to fill up the core with emotions.} - Kyon already had a taste of hardships that awaited him on the way to fulfilling the requirements of the unique body of the void.

Finally, Kyon stopped beating the robber and noticed Juno's quiet displeased look, as if she wanted to say, "why are you touching my booty?!"

Kyon coughed and stepped aside. The tension coming from the girl disappeared.

{You are like a hound whose prey I accidentally took! What a nasty girl.} - Kyon smiled.

Meanwhile, Juno kept torturing Guiming, approaching the process with the imagination of a true master of her craft. She knocked out his teeth and forced him to swallow them. Then she said:

«You wanted to introduce me to your little brother who likes beautiful girls, didn't you?»

«I was kidding! JUST KIDDING! IT WAS A JOKE! DONT KILL ME! А-а-аА-ааh!» - The boss of the robbers yelled with tears in his eyes.

Juno stepped on his groin as hard as she could with a sweet smile on her face. It made a terrible sound.

Guiming's eyes almost fell out of his face. His body cramped. His heart was about to stop.

Juno flushed with euphoria. She was burning with excitement. Kyon was frightened ever to become the subject of her attention.

She was coming closer to the next robber with a spring in her step... The hellish show was going on.

Suddenly, Kyon felt an urge to approach the dead man. His core sent him a message in the form of hunger, or rather a pleasant smell that made him feel hungry.

{Just don't tell me!..} - Kyon's core attracted Guimin's soul and swallowed it up, all of it. What Kyon experienced in the process couldn't be expressed in words! It was as if an unknown entity entered him and became his integral part.

{Holy cow!}

Kyon had never read about soul eaters before. Apparently, he had become one. Unique bodies with spatial attribute properties were legends, but soul eaters?! Was it normal at all?! He deprived a person of a chance to be reborn! There was no proof about this theory, though. It was just a belief.

…

The eyes of the woman, beautiful, like a dawn, were filled with gloomy thoughts.

{The unique body that makes him a soul-eater...} - Ancient memories appeared in the goddess's mind. The supreme god had destroyed the race of soul-eaters because they went against his laws. They unbalanced the world and committed a crime against the cycle of creation. She was the only one who knew that there was one more reason why he had destroyed them.

But then appeared a guy, weak and worthless, but capable of things that the supreme god hated and despised.

The goddess knew that her "father" was an egoist and a hypocrite. He was a master of nine elements but didn't let others bend more than five. He had created the universal limitation of five elements for a single person. He ruled all the souls without exception, but he had destroyed each one who had a similar ability.

…

While Juno was killing the scum of society, Kyon was walking around, picking up the souls of the dead. He found out certain facts. If he didn't absorb the soul of the deceased within fifteen minutes you, it would fly off somewhere into the depth of the earth. At this very moment all the formations that this person has ever created dissipate. The complete death of the brain makes the soul lose the connection with the past owner and fly away to an unknown call. Kyon also discovered the range of his soul-attracting ability. It was only five meters. He couldn't help noticing that it was more difficult to attract the souls of a more developed person. It also gave him more saturation.

When Kyon had swallowed up all the robbers' souls, Kyon made a tsking sound. He had filled up his body by some percent only. How many souls would he have to absorb?

Meanwhile, Juno was still torturing a dead man, turning his face into a bloody mess. The atmosphere of the infernal pain had vanished with the last dead, and yet watching the innocent little girl beating a cooling corpse was creepy.

Kyon went up to Juno and experienced a storm of euphoria... She was literally burning with pleasure! She seemed to be at the peak of satisfaction during sex.

Kyon touched her warm shoulder.

«Juno, how are you?»

Juno turned around, her eyes half-closed eyes, her face burning red, her pupils dilated.

«Master…»

Juno got off the robber and went to Kyon with an apparent motive. She looked like a bloody succubus, a daughter of the king of hell. Creepy and beautiful. Her beautiful big eyes were ablaze with a desire for sensual pleasures.