Chapter 890: Emotions
Seventh district, inside the restaurant.
There were a lot of customers in the restaurant with almost identical expressions on their faces. They were all dressed differently, but their expressions were almost identical.
They all expressed surprise, as if they had seen something very rare indeed.
Su Xiao sat at the dining table, quietly chewing his food and thinking about his future plans.
He picked up a piece of steak with his fork and swallowed half of it in one bite..
— Woof! " suddenly barked Bubtny, causing Su Xiao to be snapped out of his thoughts.
— What happened? Su Xiao was stunned when he came to his senses.
Their table was piled high with plates.
There were two stacks in total, but they were half a meter high.
Bubtney jumped down from the chair and bit Su Xiao's arm. He clearly wanted Su Xiao to stop eating.
Realizing that something was wrong, Su Xiao glanced at the clock in the restaurant.
It had been almost two hours since he had entered the restaurant, but it felt like no more than five minutes.
Normally, he would have noticed such a sudden jump in time.
Su Xiao touched his chin and thought about what had happened earlier. Since he entered the restaurant, he seemed to have ordered about a dozen dishes, but in reality, he ordered about 8 times more food than usual, while he ate everything and didn't leave a single dish intact.
The idea that came up at some point dispelled his doubts, but he, after all, had to eat well due to a recent serious injury, he now needed a lot of energy to recover.
— Bubtney, have I done anything unusual lately? Su Xiao asked and checked his status.
In a world where magic was something common, a lack of information could easily get him hooked.
Bubtney sat up, looked up, and thought for a moment. Grabbing the closed bottle of orange juice with its chubby front paws, it placed the napkin on the floor and began to "pour" the juice directly onto it.
Seeing this, Su Xiao smiled. "Tortured that girl with wine?" This is not unusual... Su Xiao's pupils suddenly narrowed.
He realized something. Compared to physical torture, he was more used to using words, hints, information, the opponent's weak points, and so on, to destroy the opponent's psychological defenses and further obtain the necessary information.
Compared to physical torture, the information obtained through mental torture was more accurate and truthful, at least according to the numerous results of his practice.
But this time, Su Xiao didn't even consider destroying the opponent's mental barrier, and immediately decided to resort to physical torture.
As a result, the information he received was inaccurate.
Su Xiao frowned as he thought about it. Other than that, he had previously thought that killing Stile was the right choice. As for the girl disguised as Kaori Kanzaki, there was no need for him to kill her on the spot. In the end, it was Alistair and Laura Stewart who had the most to gain from her death..
There really was something wrong with him. All this time, he was too impulsive, no, rather, he just didn't think of anything when he met his opponents.
Su Xiao started to recall what he was thinking at that time. All he had thought about back then was that he had to kill his enemies as quickly as possible and gain the right to move freely around Academy City. As for other things, he didn't think about it at all.
— Bubtney, hit me.
Su Xiao's words stunned Bubtney, and his small eyes seemed to want to say, " What kind of strange request is this?».
— Stop talking nonsense and hit me quickly...
*Pum!*
Clenching his paw into a fist, Bubtny slapped Su Xiao's calf.
God only knew how the dog could have clenched its paw into a fist.
— More...
Bubtney was a really docile dog. Before Su Xiao could finish speaking, he had already slammed his fist down on his leg.
— With all my might and on the head...
Bubtney hit Su Xiao's leg for the third time. His eyes looked helpless and seemed to want to ask Su Xiao, " Master, when did you awaken this trait? You should start taking your medication».
— Stupid dog, I told you to hit me with all your might.".. Su Xiao stopped in mid-sentence, and the red light in his eyes quickly faded.
This red light had already appeared once before when he was looking at Awaki Musujime.
— Thinking became muddled, and thoughts became one-pointed and stubborn... Leaving a few large bills on the table, Su Xiao walked out of the restaurant with Bubtney.
He had already checked his status numerous times and found nothing out of the ordinary — his stats, health, mana, and so on were all normal.
But now he realized that there was something wrong with him, and what's more, even though he had discovered it, it felt like everything was fine. Even on that ancient battlefield, amidst the pile of corpses and blood, he didn't have such strange impulses, much less such a state.
As soon as he left the restaurant, he felt uncomfortable. His stomach swelled up to an abnormal state. If it wasn't for his resilience, he definitely wouldn't have been able to stay alive with so much food consumed.
As Su Xiao walked down the street, he constantly tried to analyze it all.
Judging from the current situation, he was obviously affected by someone's skills. Perhaps someone had left a mark on him, a rune, or just activated some skill on him that affected his emotions.
A young and beautiful girl walked past Su Xiao. The faint smell of perfume made Su Xiao turn around.
Sensing Su Xiao's gaze, she smiled politely at Su Xiao.
Bubtny, who was standing behind Su Xiao, sensed something amiss and immediately bit Su Xiao's thigh.
Feeling a slight tingling sensation, Su Xiao came to his senses and patted Bubtny's head.
Earlier, he had come up with an extremely ugly idea.
— It's getting stronger and stronger.
Su Xiao walked quickly down the street. After finding a hotel, he booked a room, locked the door, and sat cross-legged on the bed.
Dragon Flash rested on his feet.
Su Xiao began to meditate. Meditation could stabilize his condition at any time.
Bubtney was lying next to Su Xiao. If he saw something abnormal in him, he would immediately help Su Xiao recover.
This meditation was different from the usual one. As soon as Su Xiao entered the state of rest, he felt seven symbols 'appear' on his hand.
And looked so these symbols: 々、ㄍ、ㄘ、ㄞ、ㄣ、ㄨ、ㄋ.
After memorizing them thoroughly, Su Xiao opened his eyes, took out a pen, and drew them on the same spot where he had felt them just a second earlier. It completely preserved their size, features, position, and even tilt.
After that, he took out a magnifying glass from his inventory.
[Jupis Magnifying Glass.
Origin: Destiny: The Beginning; Holy Church.
Quality: Blue.
Type: Special Equipment.
Endurance: 15/15.
Equipment requirements: Vision of at least 0.5 points or better.
Equipment Effect: Emotion Boost (Active). You can choose any target to evaluate its willpower. If the target fails the assessment, their strongest emotion (greed, lust, madness, anger, and so on) will be doubled. The effect will last for 5 minutes.]
After Su Xiao received this magnifying glass, he had left it to gather dust in his inventory just in case, and now it would finally be able to play its part.
Immediately, he activated the skill of this glass on himself. Since he had used it on himself, there was no need to pass the assessment to activate the skill.
Sure enough, after activating the skill, a wave of greed rose up in his heart, which seemed to want everything in the world.
Five minutes later, Su Xiao understood the meaning of the seven symbols on his hand. He successfully decrypted them.
«々 represents anger.
ㄍ represents arrogance.
ㄘ represents gluttony.
ㄞ represents laziness.
ㄣ represents envy.
ㄨ represents lust or desire.
ㄋ represents greed».
The seven emotions were amplified depending on the environment Su Xiao was in. The seven emotions echoed each other. When an emotion was amplified, it became extremely extreme.
When Su Xiao used the liquid torture earlier, his anger and arrogance were heightened.
The most frustrating part was that the amplification was very difficult to detect, and Su Xiao didn't know when exactly it all started, and whose handiwork was it, Alistair? Unlikely. The Divine Surgeon? Even less likely...
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