Emotion Taster
Arc 0 Strawberries: Chapter 8 - Where Emotional Overflows
The light fiber rope, white shining glare wrapped around the girl's body in front of me. There's no hook, no controller really connected to that light fiber. They just floated up and lifted the girl into the air.
Amalia closed her eyes in front of the girl, seeing that she was concentrating on what she was doing. With a white robe and a knife in his grasp, he performed a ritual of mana-taking.
The girl he took was the member of the OSIS in the hall at that time. Because of my arrival, the retrieval ritual was interrupted and made him fail. This time we called her to the back of the second-class building as the break went on, repeating what Amalia had done before.
“...”
Amalia started to open her eyes. The position of the hand that originally held the knife firmly now changed.
“After Completed?” I asked who had been leaning against the wall ever since.
After sheathing her knife, Amalia nodded once at me. Followed by the missing magic light, I could now feel the waves of abnormal emotions begin to vanish.
Whaddya think?
Write Amalia in the notebook that was then shown to me.
Hmn ....
“Entaihah, it still feels a little strange.”
Still weird how?
“My normal life was suddenly visited by a mission to become a gatherer mana. I'm still healthy not to accept this whole thing. I know you guys didn't lie from the start, but it still feels weird.”
Like receiving many lessons at once on the same day. Even if I managed to do that, there was a feeling that the lessons I learned were too much. Like a feeling of tiredness in a compressed head.
But, can't you read minds? It was a magical ability that resembled a magic can just now.
More precisely is to feel emotions, I can't really read people's minds. Didn't I tell you yesterday.
“I've had that ability from childhood. In my point of view, that ability felt normal. What feels strange to me is, why can't you all feel the emotional waves of people.”
Amalia did not reply, she saw me a few seconds after my sentence came out. I could feel his emotions, he started thinking and chose not to continue this conversation.
Huh ....
One day has passed since Amalia took me to Pero's place. I explained everything I knew to the crow woman. About my power that could feel emotions, and about the strange feeling I felt when I met Amalia in the hall.
“Hmn ...” Peter buzzed again, seeing that he was digesting my situation well.
I told her all about my abilities, about how I felt the world, about how I got other people's emotional stimuli.
“...”
Amalia in the corner of the room began to approach, showing her note to ask me.
Can you read my mind?
“No, I cannot know the heart of others. All I can feel is emotion. Ability to tell a person's mood.”
“True .. is no longer wrong. That power comes from us animus,”, Pero said in response to my talk. “You're sure you don't know the animus around you? What about your parents?”
“My parents ... My parents are unknown.”
“...”
The two women in front of me tilted their heads, their confused expressions showing after hearing my words.
“What they've died—”
“...!?”
Amalia cut off Pero's sentence, she blocked and cut off the view between me and Pero.
“Hn?”
And with Amalia showing Pero a note, because her position is behind me, I don't know what she's writing. However, the emotions he was emitting were very clear. He refrained from hurting my feelings and told Pero to smooth his words.
“So, I don't know if they're dead or not. I just know that the people around me don't want to tell me about it.”
But, I chose to continue the conversation, I was not offended by such talk at all, my logic was stronger to not put forward such spoiled emotions.
Pero began to peek by popping his face from behind Amalia's body, he ignored the mute girl to continue his conversation with me.
Amalia who felt the pressure finally turned sideways to stop blocking me and Pero looked up.
“Not you and Amalia are the same age, humans still need their mothers until they are really adults, right? Who are you staying with?”
“The adults who live with me know nothing of my strength. Even if I tell you, no one believes.”
Rather than me being considered a freak, I better not tell it. I hate being likened to indigos and psychics who claim to see ghosts.
“Then I cannot explain the origin of your power, Kaivan. But, hearing from what you explained, I already know which cause of the siphoning belongs to Amalia.”
Youunderstand? I couldn't even see the thread of connection between my case and Amalia's incident in the hall back then.
“In short, there is a pull on your body. The way an emotion reader works should be to flow the emotion around the reader, then proceed out. But, because there is an awkwardness in your emotions, the way it works changes. Which should drain instead of sucking.”
I scrunched my face, looking narrowly at Pero.
“So, how can I go back where Amalia is?”
I asked the woman. I don't want to waste time, just say it and make me free from all of you.
The wound?
“What does it mean?”
Treating me? I don't feel any pain at all.
“Amalia .. You explained.”
“...”
Amalia on the side started to advance, she flipped a new page in her notes to write a new theme.
Treating the wound meant making the person able to bring out mana. Those who are treated will be able to be taken away in order to be a source of animus magic.
“I still don't understand. Explain to me in an easy to understand way.”
Where comes from strong human feelings. One of the pinnacles of that feeling is when humans are free from the problems that suppress them.
Amalia began flipping her notes, writing a follow-up to the explanation and then showing it back to me.
Kaivan, do you have a problem that you can't solve? Big trouble that makes you depressed? It could be the thing that is the source of your injuries.
“...”
I try to think back, look at myself and the life I've been through. Find the location of the problem that might be the answer to Amalia's question.
Heh ....
Of course ... the answer is obvious.
“Entailah, I can not say.”
Amalia fell silent, she could not answer the statement I gave. With a half-thinking face, he turned to throw it at Pero behind him.
“Hmn? What does it mean that you do not know what caused your heart to hurt? Are you sure you don't have a shadow about that?”
Actually it's not that. For some reason I don't want to tell them. The problem I'm facing is quite complicated, I don't want anyone else to interfere in this matter.
“Yah .. about like that. How can you be sure my heart is hurt?”
“I can feel it .... There's a gaffe in your heart. But, if you deny it, I could be wrong. In the end I was just an animus who did not know the contents of the human heart.”
“...”
I still don't understand what that woman is talking about. A lot of things were thrown at me all of a sudden. If I ask more, this discussion gets even more confusing. So, I want to speed up the process.
“Is there any other way to restore where got Amalia?”
“Of course. There is still another way, and this one is the way I recommend the most.”
Alisku bergidig heard that word.
“Keep why didn't you tell me from the beginning?”
“That's because indirectly you will get involved into it.”
Ah ... I feel that troublesome things are coming.
“Other solution ... You just need to suck where else. If the amount is enough, one day your body will also be full and where Amalia belongs can come out by itself.”
Heh? Whatisit? So, you want to get the water out of the glass by giving it some more water?
“Isn't that even harder? If it is done, more mana is wasted than it comes out?”
I don't know how much mana to reach that point. Seeing Amalia's actions when she was stolen gave me goosebumps. Is it really okay if I take it again?
"Wasted? No. .. It looks like you were wrong. The mana sucked into your body will come out along with where Lia's got it. Hmn ... how do I explain it.”
Peter again threw the explanation at Amalia. The girl caught a clear signal from Pero, and she quickly wrote something on her note.
It's like putting water in your ear by putting water in again. Both will come out at the same time.
“...”
Well ... I don't understand how it works, but somehow I get the point. This cannot be explained by logic. I better ignore the confusing part.
“So, for more details, what should I do?”
“You just need to help Amalia collect mana. You can be a partner .. ah, no, you actually do not need to come to work. Just come with Amalia when the mana taking is done. So, for a while you are a container where a replacement bottle.”
That's the story of how I became Amalia's maid.
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