The God's Right Seat - Water Behind

From that moment on, Roger began to harbour doubts.

After all, Makima's claim of being a devil hunter was only her declaration. What if she was a demon lurking among humans?

However, seeing that "Domination" wasn't one of the eight symbols didn't entirely dispel this possibility for Roger.

Makima might not be a Demon Lord, but she could be a significant demon.

Demon Lords are, after all, the strongest of the great demons...

Once the suspicion arose, it was hard to dismiss. Roger now harboured deep mistrust toward Makima and would never seek her help to cure the curse on him.

After searching the ruins for longer and finding no further clues, Roger and his crew returned to their ship, continuing their voyage with a heavier heart.

Following this minor detour, the world continued its stable development.

During this period, Yuan Yi mainly spent his time basking in the sun, gardening, and caring for his pets.

He had a cat, and every day, he engaged in a battle of wits with his feline overlord, mainly to cultivate his temperament.

During this period, he even ignored the growth of his emotional points.

After this period of tranquillity, Yuan Yi realised how overly reliant he had been on his abilities in the past, especially since all the power he gained was dependent on 'negative emotion points.'

He collected the world's negative emotions, which then transformed into a character from whom he derived one per cent of their power. Strictly speaking, this portion of power came from those negative emotions.

In essence, the negative emotions he collected were purified into a character, but no matter how much they were purified, about one per cent remained unrefined.

That unrefined part didn't linger in character but entered his body, representing one per cent of power.

Positive emotion points didn't have this issue; they completely transformed into items without affecting his body. Therefore, he couldn't use positive emotion points to counterbalance the negative ones to maintain equilibrium.

The negative emotions entering his body would make an ordinary person increasingly irritable and evil, but Yuan Yi was never ordinary.

Primarily, his mindset was different. He had always lived in this world with a playful attitude, maintaining a high stance, so the world's emotions didn't influence him much.

Yet, Yuan Yi needed to be aware of these influences, as he sensed that this might be a way to transcend this world.

Just as Kozuki Oden and others became increasingly controlled by him after gaining his power, if he fell deeper under the influence of this world's negative emotions, he might be unable to transcend it.

Thus, drawing character cards from negative emotion points required even more caution.

Over the years, he felt he had gradually shed these influences.

Today, he finally looked at his emotional points again.

"Positive Emotion Points: 8,523,111"

"Negative Emotion Points: 11,132,141"

His positive emotion points were nearly ten million, while the negative points reached over ten million...

He remembered having eight to nine million negative emotion points long ago. After the Wano Country incident and subsequent years, he had only slightly over eleven million negative emotions.

Once he reached the ten-million level, the growth of negative emotion points had significantly slowed.

In that case, he had missed out on many negative emotions.

However...

It wasn't a big deal.

Because constantly drawing cards could affect his state and future, it was a matter of balance.

Yuan Yi chose rationality.

After all, time was on his side, and there was no need to rush the exchanges.

But now, after several years, another exchange should be fine.

With that thought, he started another exchange of negative emotional points.

"Water Behind: From the world of Toaru Majutsu no Index, a member of the Roman Catholic Church's secret organization 'God's Right Seat,' possessing the nature of the 'Power of God' Gabriel and being one of the world's less than twenty 'Saints,' a special Saint with both the properties of the 'Son of God' and the 'Holy Mother.'"

Wow, seeing this character card, Yuan Yi was surprised again.

It was rare to draw such a positive character from negative emotions.

For instance, the Nine-Tails, Toguro, Makima, and Aatrox were fearsome beasts, great demons, or world-ending demon lords.

Although Kuchiki Byakuya wasn't a villain, he wasn't a good person either.

As a Shinigami, the Thirteen Court Guard Squads were essentially a violent institution maintaining the dark rule of Central 46. They engaged in large-scale massacres as if it were a game.

While not participating in massacres, Kuchiki Byakuya represented the strict laws of the Soul Society before being moved by Ichigo Kurosaki. Though not a villain, he wasn't a saint either.

In essence, he was a neutral character. However, considering his ancestors' backstabbing the creator god...

That paints a different picture.

So, technically, Kuchiki Byakuya, destined to fall into Hell upon death, met the 'villain' criteria, although his descent was to prevent spiritual interference in the three realms.

The weaker characters included the demon Xiaolong, the son of the demon lord Holy Lord.

Himura Kenshin wasn't a villain either but had the fearsome reputation of 'Hitokiri Battousai.'

The only character completely unrelated to villains was Ah Xing.

Although Ah Xing joined the Axe Gang, he never committed significant wrongdoing and failed to achieve his bad intentions.

Ah, Xing was too weak initially, which led to such ambiguous characters.

But...

Water Behind was different, drawn from millions of negative emotion points. Reflecting on drawing Aatrox, just controlling his body conveyed his rage and pain.

Yet, Water Behind...

It had little to do with negative emotions, leaving Yuan Yi surprised.