Emotion Taster

Arc 3 Sweet Sting Acid Ant Format: Chapter 4 - One Room

This may have been one of my developments all along. Not only Amalia, but I was also among those who practiced using my strength.

Unlike the girl, mine is an ability to detect. As a result of that power, I am very anti with the crowd. However, all of that continues to decrease like a trained muscle.

I always avoid when there are negative emotions or waves of solid emotions mixed with people in the crowd. It was so painful, disgusting, it even damaged my mental state. But, of course if not faced, they will forever be terrible and become a weakness.

Today I took the bus, and in the middle of the route I got the condition of the bus filled with a lot of passengers. Unlike usual, I can still endure it all now. Thanks to Amalia's wave of severe emotions, the pain and disgust don't really make me faint or vomit, more like a temporary sore like constipation nausea.

The effect is still there, but what I get from this power isn't as severe as it was until I wanted to lock myself in a room forever as it used to be. Maybe this is also due to Pero's influence on the magic used on me first.

Pero has always relied on Amalia and me, which is strange when he himself can use magic and do things beyond reason. Maybe for the mana gathering case, I can accept he doesn't understand the whole human feeling. But, for the case of fighting a fellow animus whose notaburnya the creature also uses magic, isn't it strange to ask me and Amalia?

I asked Pero all the way on the bus without Amalia's knowledge. But, the answer is pretty simple.

Animus who contract with humans like Pero and Amalia will lose most of their magic power. He can still use simple magic, small magic, long-term magic, or complicated magic with very long preparation. But, to do a fight that had a very fast time tempo, they would not be able to. So, it would be very effective for Amalia who intervened with thanks to her self-protection magic.

He also told me that the original animus that is still innocent not bound by a contract usually does not live in this world. Those who enter the human world usually have or contract as soon as possible. The rules ... ordinances of using magic .. everything related to that should have been known to them before entering the human world. But, animus still have the viscosity of animal nature, not a few of them who live free from these rules.

Normally animals with instinct have excessive fear and tend not to take bold action to colonize something they do not know. Many of them are unfamiliar with the sparkles of metropolitan cities, even many of them are still afraid of fire.

So, when there is an incident of violation as perceived by Pero now, an act of smuggling or infiltrating into the area of others. It is very high the possibility that the animus has a partner of a human witch, the same position as Amalia now, a person with a human brain who can affect the instinct of animal cowards.

My mind began to shadow, how it looked and what the existence of witches was like out there. Is she just like Amalia like an ordinary girl who happens to be chosen, or like a witch in fiction where it is generally creepy with shades of darkness.

*****

The bus ride was completed at a stop north of the city. Unlike the city center I live in, there is more land for the sky to see. There are not many skyscrapers, few houses clinging, and a highway that is equivalent to a toll road.

We did not stop there, a few steps and sometimes back on public transport, all directions are still determined by Pero who is confined to a bird cage now. He himself still did not confirm exactly where the intruder was like a tracking device, but at least he could deliver us to vulnerable places to be tracked further.

Amalia looked tired on the trip, while we also rested in one place to eat. When you are done, your mind is ready to continue the search. But, the sky in was already dark enough, at least it was time for us to determine the shelter in if it should be quiet until midnight.

There are not many hotel options there, small houses, large land, and village nuances are still thick to show the least commercial potential can develop. So, when we found one of them, without further ado the place became an option to hitchhike sleeping.

Speaking of convenience, when entering the hotel, Pero changed the shape to human form. It was quite suspicious of both of us where Amalia and I were in my teens booking hotel rooms together. Physically, Pero's stature as a human being looks like a mature woman. So, she'll look perfectly fitting as a temporary guardian now.

But, that does not mean the atmosphere can now be taken so easily as there are no obstacles at all.

“One room book for one night,” said Pero there.

“He?”

“...!?”

Aye, right. Pero booked a room, which means Amalia and I will sleep in the same room. No walls, men and women, at night, stay together.

*grip

I held Pero's hand standing up and spoke to the hotel receptionist. The strong grip is enough to make a sense of shock until he stops while in the conversation booking a hotel room.

*grip

Amalia also holds Pero's loose clothes on her other arm. The girl did not speak, but her expression and emotional waves were quite clear about the expression of the same feelings as me.

*Nod, nodes ....

Nod Amalia who agrees with my words while helping to attract the raven demon woman.

After getting far enough away in the corner of the main hall, Amalia and I started talking about the incident.

“What does one room mean? Why not order two?”

“It means the same as what is said, we order one room and filled to make three,” said Pero like no mistake. “Are you not smart enough to understand this?”

“That should be my question .. do you have a little cleverness? Just a little to understand where your mistake is now?”

“Actually I was a little aware with some things.”

“Ah .. I hope you have full awareness about this,” I said lazily. “I'm the same Amalia can not be one room together, if like this maybe I will come in.”

“Not in? The room I booked was only one before, and the other room was already filled. What are your plans tonight?” ask Pero in a confused tone.

“Entahlah .. Maybe I'll find a gas station or terminal twenty-four hours. At least it's better than the two in the hotel room.”

“Ahaha ...,” laughs Pero's snide taunt next to his mouth. “I don't understand why you call it both, it turns out that I am not considered an individual by you. Though, it was clear that I would also get into it, the ill effects of being alone with Amalia were already nonexistent. Or ... do you still have other problems?”

Actually the main reason I didn't want to be with Amalia was because of the emotional wave effect. A deep sleep that should have been quiet can be messed up by the girl's unstable emotional waves, especially if there is a degree of alertness about my being. But ....

“...”

Amalia now looked at me anxiously. Maybe because he heard my choice to stay at the terminal or gas station like a moneyless transmigrant. Even if I say it like that, there is actually an option for me to go straight home and change my mind not to follow this plan from the beginning.

“Huft .. hah ...,” my breath began to fatigue thinking. “I don't mind if Amalia is okay about this.”

“Ah .. you can finally be an adult. I hope this trust you do not betray when you are in the room,” he said in a slightly ignorant tone.

“One bad incident on Amalia has been quite torturous. Her emotional waves would destroy me before I could do anything bad to her. It was the same as suicide in the true sense.”

“Ahaha .. I like your candamu.”

“...”

That's not a joke at all.

After your conversation is over, Pero goes back to the reception desk to re-book the room that was delayed just now.

The receptionist woman asked what the problem was, and Pero replied casually that it was just a minor quarrel. She said that Amalia and I were cousins, and that she expressed shame in staying in one room after a long time apart and growing up.

I don't deny it at all, but the ability of Pero to set up such a background is quite commendable to me. In addition to the story, I can even see that Pero has a complete identity letter, without any problems or anything suspected, he managed to make the transaction.

Whatever the result, I am now also tired of the long journey of enduring the nausea on the previous bus.