Emotion Taster

Arc 3 Sweet Stinged Ants Acid Format: Chapter 5 - Eyewitness

The three of us went into the reserved room, the place was on the third floor of the four-story building. The interior of the hotel is not luxurious, more like a big house that happens to be a hotel. I'm not surprised, considering that this hotel doesn't hold a single star title.

In the room I was treated to two separate beds. It is true that this room was reserved for three people. But, after seeing this I started to think how they would occupy it.

Did you use each other's mattresses and leave me on the floor, or use one for both Amalia and Pero and leave one for me?

I don't mind that choice. After all, sleeping on the floor is natural when an excess guest chooses to stay overnight. Especially for men.

"Amalia, Pero, I take a shower first. So, you wait in the bed if you want to use the bathroom," I said as soon as possible plugging the position.

"Hmmn ...? Kaivan, don't humans also have a bit of priority and respect for a woman?" ask Pero at the side in front who is helping to put and clean things.

"Do crows need a bath? Why not turn into a crow and clean the body with an iron spray?"

"Hmrs ... Actually, that choice is true. Moreover, I used to still do it," replied Pero while tilting his gaze.

"Hn?"

I didn't think he would reply to my half-candid words seriously.

"I'm engraved in memory of how Amalia bathed me back then. But, because I had a human form, she also ended up teaching me to take a bath using soap. Up until now I felt bathing with the human method was much more convenient."

"..."

Hmn ....

I thought a little, analyzed the opinions and also the circumstances that occurred in the conversation. Until I finally found a bright spot on how I should respond.

"Pero," called me in a serious tone. "Can you tell me the details of how Amalia taught you to take a bath."

"the details? Hmn ... at that time Amalia was a little afraid to enter the bathroom in my house. Maybe because the house was old, then he took me to take a bath together. Because the crow form doesn't treat his fear, so I used the human form and– Hmn!?"

*Whoush ....

On the other hand, there was Amalia who stopped Peter from speaking. The girl shut her mouth, made a panicked face, and gestures and exertion seemed to be threatening her partner.

I who was standing around the driveway must have seen Amalia who was in the room earlier. Precisely, from the start when he heard the question and was a little shocked, I had already seen it.

The mute effect made him unable to scream stop from a distance, his gesture sometimes not conveyed if not seen. That is, I saw the actions of him who moved frantically towards Pero at that time, although a little story can be caught from the initial sentence that Pero had said.

"Huf ... Hah ...," my breath dodged the incident. "I use the bathroom first, then you can use it as much. And about safety, when you take a shower I'm gonna go out. So, don't panic or be suspicious."

"..."

Amalia's gaze changed towards me, her focus that was silencing Pero was stopped. His eyes and face seemed to say that he wanted to hear me more clearly.

I was picking things up and changing clothes, preparing to go to the bathroom. But, before entering the room, I turned my head and spoke to Amalia.

"I went out because I wanted to go out. Not just let you calm down, Amalia," I said in a soft tone, a wave of emotions that seemed to arise from a sense of arrogance can be felt on the tongue. "So, you're free to play water or scream in the bathroom. I won't hear when you guys shower together later," and then followed in a slightly joking cynical tone.

*Whoush ....

After that sentence came out, I immediately went into the bathroom.

*Throw ....

Buk!!

The sound of an object being thrown, from the time and the previous wave of emotion, was confirmed to have come from Amalia. He who could not speak could only reveal the expression of his actions. Therefore, later the girl began to be rude to me, it turns out that mute can also change someone's personality.

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It feels a little foreign too. When I use the bathroom other than at home for advanced privacy activities such as bathing, the security at heart is somehow not well embedded. Maybe this is also caused by my life that never moved house and minimized sleepover activities.

My body is fit again, tired and tired as if dissolved with sweat washed while bathing. I change clothes in the bathroom, all my activities are done in privacy. So, when I came out of the room where there were two girls, I had no hassles at all.

“Amalia, Pero ... I'll be out for about an hour, but earlier ...,” I said while changing the direction of focus on Pero in the corner of the room. “Until now there is a sign of the intruder you said?”

“Not yet,” replied Pero while shaking his head.

“Heh, I began to suspect that this might all be a wasted trip.”

“Quiet .. I'm sure we're in the right place. The radius distance from this hotel is very strategic to detect anomalous signals from the magic boundary of my territory. I told you he's active at night, there's still about five hours to go before two. So, you are free to rest or go outside first.”

“Hmn ...,” response I put a hand on the chin. “Oke, I'm going first. If there's something, call me. Or ... just use HP Amalia. I won't go far.”

*sex

I walked from the hotel to the outside area, stepped through the parking area and continued ‘tak stop until arriving at one of the public areas.

The place I was headed to was where the areas that small merchants used to live. Various typical night snacks such as warm drinks, unique culinary, and some other non-culinary items such as clothing and toys. They all enliven and make the night full of boisterous activities of the community. It is not a crowded tourist spot, but the area I occupy at least has its own color.

I did not go to that place to shop, just to satisfy the desire of the eyes that happened to be at that time I could not stay in the hotel room.

My trip there was quite short, buying only one warm drink of small merchant spices and then going away. Of course all that also comes back to the power of emotional detection, too long will also not make good on my mental health.

The new time runs about thirty minutes, the rest of the time I will probably spend sitting back. This time I went to the minimarket, after walking for a few minutes, again I wanted to feel the cold temperature of the AC there.

Minimarket is not a rare place, even for the region I am visiting now. So, there is no long distance between the trading area with the minimarket.

There I went in and bought some snacks, sitting in the space provided while occasionally playing the phone. When I was in this state, in itself there were no meaningful activities, spent time in uselessness, and felt time run slowly, it all made me re-think the meaning of my life.

“Huft .. hah ...”

I breathed a long breath, making my chest expand by about an inch because of the amount of air. But ....

“Hn?”

I feel something different than usual. Something familiar stung my nose and mouth.

“This ... emotional wave ...”

Precisely the waves smelled foul like garbage, this reminded me of Imarine with its organic waste scent. But, unlike the girl, what I feel now is purer as the smell of carrion.

This might be an opportunity, I have a chance to find the person who sucked where he was again other than at school. Come to think of it, I should be wandering around looking for people like that rather than everyday waiting for students to cause symptoms. This is much more effective than relying on just one small area like my school.

I stood up from the seat in front of the minimarket, walking slowly following the direction of the source of the emotional wave. From the concentration of the scent I felt, the source was still quite far away.

At that time my powers were used again like metal detectors, using emotional wave signals to find someone like me who was looking for Imarine at school, only this time the scale was larger. From the direction of the minimarket, I walked further away from the crowd that sourced the previous trading area. This made my pace continue to advance to a quiet place where the lights were getting fewer and fewer.

The waves of emotion got stronger, I walked and the longer the stronger the concentration of aroma. It was right where I found an empty area with many tall herbs covering it.

The area does not have road access, like a vacant land ‘not taken care of no one has. No lights, if my eyes don't get used to it, all I see is darkness. It had occurred to me that what I smelled was the scent of a real carcass, but all of it was broken in a simple way by covering my nose. My emotional detection ability can't be deactivated just by closing those senses.

The plants that make up my shrub attitude one by one, the lands that have various heights also I step on. Circumstances where a less touched place does have its own terrain, I need to expend a little energy and focus so as not to fall or even just open the road.

Until at the last moment, the attitude of a thick leaf twig got in the way, I saw something quite shocking. At the end of the vision was a small man, drowning in darkness, who was behind me and facing off against one other man.

“Hh!?”

I don't understand his condition, but the one that shocked me was what happened next.

*shine

The light that was not there suddenly came out, bluish white was very blinding to my eyes that were accustomed to seeing dark. The effect made me squint my eyes, closing the part with my arms to reduce the incoming light. But, still it makes me blind for a moment can not stand to close the vision.

Not only that, sounds like plasma machines also pollute the surrounding environment. It's not as bad as the light that actually blocks the eyes, but it's enough to make me want to close my ears because of the noise—even though basically my hand is more placed to close my eyes.

“... Your request, I'll grant ...”

Huh uh? A request?

I heard a voice, not too heavy and pitched high enough as a child using an adult accent. In the eye squeaking state, I can only know the direction of the sound, which is there right in the light source now.

Curiosity continued to appear, I began to panic and force myself to see what was happening in front of me. But ....

Grek!!

Stank!!

The loud sound of an iron impact, boomed all over the surface of the atmosphere until its clang turned into an explosive sound. I can't predict the cause of the sound, but the air vibrations caused by the jolt of the object were even felt until the surrounding winds blew through my clothes.

Whom ....

“Ghuak!!?”

But, still the most influential thing and cause an effect is not something like physical. What I feel and what is the limit of value is something that is certain in my sixth sense.

Emotional waves ....

Not the foul-smelling depression, not the pungent anger, not the cold-feeling fear, or the other colorful emotions that used to color my life. This time more in a very sharp direction pierced my entire senses simultaneously.

Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain, pain ... pain ...!! Aa-a-a-aaaaaaaakh ...!!

My eyes were burning, pierced like by many needles at once. My teeth and gums ached, like every scratch of a saw blade operating on them. My eardrum felt full of buzzing, like a powerful air blow had exploded inside the skull.

I wanted to scream, this pain was so overwhelming that my body and nerves were at a loss as to how to proceed with the signal.

My lungs stopped, frozen like the muscles there were frozen. I didn't feel my heartbeat, every segment of my body felt stiff resetting everything to a state of zero. My consciousness began to disappear, eyes twitched, and the power in the stiff began to collapse.

Bruk ....

As if I were dreaming, my eyes could still see the blur of what was happening on the ground. My breathing was not felt, every aerobic cell began to change position to anaerobic due to oxygen emergency. My blood began to be poisoned, lactic acid rose up to cause a sense of other precarious conditions throughout the body.

“... Hn? There are people ..?”

I heard a high voice from the little boy. It seemed like he was aware of my existence and started walking closer.

“... Eyewitnesses, yes ...? Hmn ... why did she faint?” said the little boy again.

“... I don't know, maybe he was surprised when he saw what you did.”

E-eh ...? Other guy? Whose voice? Mr ...?

I was trying to maintain consciousness, but still my concentration was completely disrupted because the brain cells were already mostly disturbed. In a state of holding the head and chest, I continued to endure the pain in a state of lying like a person who suddenly relapsed stroke or heart attack.

“... Then should she flap him?”

“... It seemed like his internal organs were damaged from shock, without treatment he would die by himself. Do you want to save him?”

“... Saving her? Why?”

“... With this kind of damage he would probably be tormented for a long time before dying. Mister probably knows what it means?”

“... Die, yes ... then there may be no other option.”

“...”

“...”

“...”

“...”

Die off?

I was no longer able to hold my eyesight open, the eyelids formed from a piece of skin the longer the heavier it was held. As soon as they all closed down, I started to lose consciousness. Everything went dark, and my ears were also instantly silent.

　

　

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