Emotion Taster
Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 18 - A Trace of Life In My Room
Negotiation is not something too complicated for me, at least something like bluffing and trickery does not apply because of the power of emotion detection. People who hide ill intentions, utilize, and make ruse will soon be noticed by the sensation in the mouth.
I wasn't very confident in my abilities, because in practice I only did with a few people of the same age who of course they didn't have much experience with negotiations either. If I were to deal with a person with vast knowledge and high speech ability, I don't think my strength could save me completely. In the end, negotiation is how we can talk about getting someone's heart.
I might be able to do it on Imarine, I can do it on Azarin too. But, to be able to do so I still need important information about my opponent. Imarine and Azarin can guess personally through meetings, speech styles, and of course because they also have the same age. So, when dealing with someone who might be smarter, I don't have the confidence that the results will be similar.
Huft .. hah ....
I breathe sigh just by thinking of various possibilities to be able to do this. Again the toughest task is on me, where in fact Pero and Amalia are like a directional driver.
But, okay. I complain not totally hate. No matter how tired I was at work, when they both thanked me with a wave of sincere emotion, the tiredness just disappeared over time.
In another sense, I realized that I was naive.
“OK, I will come there and try to talk to the animus you said,” I said lightly nodding in agreement.
“Hmn, you never let me down, Kaivan.”
“But, condition of me too, I want you to talk. I just learned a little bit about the animus, and I definitely don't want to risk it for the test.”
“Of course, I will accompany and help you there. My existence will also be advantageous if you do not know the magic talk from her later.”
“It was the first, and now the second at the same time the most important.”
“Oh ... is there more? You turned out to be a calculating man, yes,” call Pero with a thinly angled expression that feels like a prickly skewer to me.
“I prefer to call it a conscientious person,” timpalku who did not receive any negative adjectives just now. “I want you to prepare for the worst possibility to escape later.”
“Kabur? Hmn ... terms that seem very suitable for your personal, Kaivan.”
“Heh, I take that as a compliment,” I replied with a deham that I was either catching snobbishly or not.
I am not here hoping to lose, and certainly not hoping to fail. But, here I want to remain alert to face all the bad possibilities.
The possibility of failure and success is unknown, but at least my opponent is not stupid to do something flashy to make it look like a lot of people. So, for a while I put on a superposition state where I failed and succeeded at the same time.
The best possibility was that I could make the animus that was going berserk with the magic ritual a friend. I don't know how to get that person's heart to help, nor do I bring any provisions to be sweetened so that he falls to my side to cooperate. But, that option is not impossible to happen.
Then, the worst possibility was that I was wiped out flat by him. Remembering the word Pero in which he believed the animus this time was still pure at its full strength. The raven demon without hesitation said that the three of us would not be comparable to him.
“So, how? You can?” I went back to Pero to make sure.
“What is a form of insult? The answer is clear, I can. Maybe I'm weak, but if magic with long-term forecasting, I'm still good at it.”
Ah, yes. I can see it too. Although Pero says he has weak magic, in my view it is not. He was an individual who made various surprises with magic in his own way. Not about power, but about creative ideas using magic that does not prioritize power.
“By the way, what magic are you ready to make later?”
“Teleportation, if I make preparations at the beginning, it could be the best escape route.”
“Hoo ... it turns out you can do such magic as well.”
“Iya, I can, but, Kaivan. Don't let you loosen your intentions just because I prepared this thing. You know, when he becomes an enemy, it's only a matter of time until he can crush us into dust.”
“I'm not stupid, you don't have to bring up the problem. At least I'll try as much as possible. So, now it's just a problem—“
*sex
“Hh!?”
Suddenly, I heard a loud clanging sound. Door leaves that are moved in a quiet room make the effect so great booming all over the corner of the house.
“Ivan? You, you home? Why is the light still dead?”
The sound of the door was then followed by a call from a woman. The typical adult voice of him symbolizes the maturity of the Asian people in general. He came along with footsteps and the sound of a light switch being turned on.
The sun was already setting, I was in the middle of a conversation with Pero just turning on the lamp belonging to my own room. It gets a little awkward, but I don't have a problem with that. I did not forget to turn on the time at night, only I did not expect that Brother Dina would be home so soon.
“Oh ... This is a little critical, yes, Kaivan?”
“...!?”
The one who was surprised there wasn't me either. Pero with his calm demeanor was quite conscious by lowering his tone if he was indeed depressed. As for Amalia, she had a more severe response by shaking her head frantically wanting to escape from my cramped room.
To be honest, I had almost forgotten the existence of that girl in my room. His inability to speak made it difficult for him to communicate. Something that made me realize he existed was because of the strong emotional waves he was used to.
*Whoush ....
And just this time, he let out an adrenaline rush where he was filled with tension and fear for my brother's whereabouts here.
I kept quiet, especially thinking for a moment while receiving a surge of emotion from Amalia. Until I finally decided.
My own room had only one window, and it led to the outside meeting directly the narrow side of this second-floor balcony. The advantages that can change the form are very beneficial to sneak out of my room.
“And you, Amalia. You just use your magic power, make you disappear like usual or anything that makes you not caught,” continued me while changing the direction of the lyrics to the girl.
“...!?”
Then, Amalia there also responded with a quick answer. He nodded several times, understanding and as if enlightened by my idea. Maybe because of a sudden jolt he forgot that his strength could make him escape this problem easily. Although not strong, he still had a sneak ability that was applicable to normal humans.
This situation is also actually still in an ambiguous state, I still do not know what bad possibilities will happen if Brother Dina finds me bringing two women into the room. After all, this all happened because it just so happened that my room became the fastest place to have a meeting. This was all done out of reflex, avoiding a problem where I would find it difficult to explain this situation to Brother Dina if seen by him.
“OK, if that's how I stay,” I said as I walked out of my room. “Make extra time, make sure you make it invisible.“
*sex
I was there to open the door of the room, trying to get out and welcome my new sister Dina. Like an ordinary family, I still have a little custom to not ignore people who just come home.
“Hh!?”
However, I was quite shocked once the door was pulled. Because, sister Dina there is already right in front of my room door. My body shuddered for a moment, the self-defense from my body reflexes gave a sense of shock to each joint when an unexpected figure appeared all of a sudden.
“Ivan, is anyone in the room?”
Brother Dina immediately asked a straight question.
“I'm the owner of the room, I was inside just now,” my timpalku slightly twisted.
“Not you, it means someone else. You just talked again, ‘kan? Chat with who?”
I just lost my focus on the whereabouts of Brother Dina. Calming myself from the waves of emotions Amalia turned out to be enough to make a collapse of my concentration. But, I also did not expect that he would go up to the second floor as soon as he entered the house.
“... Huft .. hah .. I just chat alone, chatting alone is normal as long as not too often. Research says that people who have the habit can be more confident—“
*step
In the middle of my conversation, Brother Dina started to decide to ignore him. He seems to have an instinct that what I'm saying is a diversionary nonsense. So, in the middle second of the sentence he stepped up to take the empty sidelines on one side to barge into my room.
“Woi,” I said as moving sideways blocked one side of the other, a crackdown in which I blocked Dina's sister from entering. “You what brother in?”
“If asked back, why can't you come in?” turn Dina's sister reverse the condition.
“I can't get in people if I don't know if he's going to do anything,” I said who equally defended the opinion.
That's what I'm saying, a powerful phrase to defend my privacy. But, Dina's response at that time ....
*push
“...”
He pushed me harder to break into my room. The power is big enough that I can't fight—or rather don't want to fight. At that level, I would have hurt him if I fought that impulse, turning into a rude act that I didn't want to do.
“You ‘kan men, do not need to put down,” he said who had broken through two steps in while looking around.
“...”
“...”
“...”
“... What is this ...? It turns out that there is no one,” said brother Dina who had seen the details of the corner of my narrow room.
Of course I also knew the conditions in my room at that time. Just a few seconds was enough to buy time. Back then, Pero and Amalia were now gone from the room trail, I could feel with the beginning of calm waves of emotions from the magical girl behind me. His sense of worthiness in the disappearing position was quite memorable on my strength.
“Ah, yes. Now have a look, ‘kan? Then can you come out now?”
I said it, like a subtle expulsion on Sister Dina.
“...”
But, he did not contact her directly. The response was so passive as it was, still focused on staring at the corners of my room even though it had already come to a conclusion. But, I was there starting to understand what happened.
“Ivan, why is there a sister's shirt here?” the question is to walk and pick up one shirt.
“Ah.”
I forgot, it's the clothes that Pero used to wear. The clothes are lying on the surface of the mattress and look so striking.
