Two weeks had passed since Kanashi learned how to use his Elemental magic's base elements and he’d quickly become somewhat adept at each one. Some he struggled with more than others but overall he could use each element with passable results so it was good enough in Jin's words. He’d even created an [Extension Element] by mixing water and earth to create [Mud]. You could do the same with [Air] and [Water] by adjusting the [Air]s temperature low enough to freeze the conjured water but that requires a lot more finesse than just slapping some earth and water together in whatever percentage you wanted.
After learning each element Kanashi then began to craft his own spells, as Jin put it simply throwing a blast of fire at someone isn't a spell. You’d need a name, desired effect, range, size, speed and more to make it into an actual spell so Kanashi worked hard to fill these criteria and it paid off with excellent results.
Another thing Kanashi had learned was [Emission] which allowed you to detach mana from your body and have it exist as its own form of energy. Eventually it would burn itself out like a fire with no fuel but with enough creativity it was an invaluable asset to any magic user's arsenal.
The final and arguably most important thing Kanashi learned about was the concept of conditions and limitations. Self Imposed rules and restrictions which in return for making you weaker in one way can make you stronger in another. For example, creating the rule that you can only punch with your right hand and not your left would make a punch from your right be equal to 220% if a normal punch was 100%. There was no minimum or maximum level to conditions and restrictions either so you could push it as far as you wanted or as little as needed and still get results. But Jin made sure to install into Kanashi the fact that conditions and limitations are not something you want to break so don't apply them without thought. If you say “After I throw this punch I’ll die!” You will literally die after throwing that punch. Of course the punch would be incredibly powerful but not worth your entire life.
Using these lessons and his abundant imagination Kanashi had impressed Jin and proven himself as a capable magic user.
Just like they had many times before, Jin and Kanashi stood a decent distance away from each other in the clearing outside Jin's mansion. Kanashi nervously waited for Jin to signal the matches beginning. He clenched his fist tightly while shaking his leg in anticipation.
With a wide smile and outstretched arms Jin clapped his hands together with enough force to shatter the sound barrier. Their match had begun and Kanashi immediately twisted his index and middle finger making the hand sign of heaven to activate his spell [Mudd]. From the ground around him a number of Golems taking the shape of Frogs and Salamanders sculpted from mud appeared. The Salamanders charged Jin and the frogs shot out their tongues aiming to restrict his limbs.
Through their sparing Kanashi had learned some of Jin's many [Blessings]. The ones of note so far were [Gravity Amplification] which allowed him to manipulate the amount of gravity within a small radius and [Flight] which let him float through the air sorta of like godmode in a video game. These were the two he most commonly used and while a pain to deal with, Kanashi knew how to get around them.
Jin, still grinning wide, looked at the golems which charged him and pointed his finger in their direction. [Gravity Amplification: Crush].
“DOOM!”
The Salamanders were instantly flattened and burst into a spray of mud which Jin somehow avoided getting hit with despite not moving a muscle.
But Kanashi expected this, no he anticipated it. I’ve been saving this! he thought with a proud smile, Conjuring his Katana [Itachi] with a flick of his wrist, he then infused his mana into the blade and swung it through the air. From the blade of Itachi came a blast of bright fiery orange mana which shot through the air and burst through the spray of mud and straight for Jin.
“!?” [Shield] Jin created a wall of mana which the emission from Itachi smashed into and both disappeared being canceled out by each other.
“How’d you do that?” Jin asked, suddenly right behind Kanashi.
“!” Kanashi reacted quickly, he spun around and jumped back while blocking his face with his arms. Tch, I can't figure out how that teleportation of his works. Is it a blessing or spell? Is it an application of Gravity Amplification or something else entirely? “I found out when practicing by myself that [Itachi] is capable of emitting a blast of Mana when I imbued it with my own.” Also by doing so
I cut my couch in half but let’s not mention that…
“Interesting, I like it!” Jin laughed, pointing a finger gun at Kanashi. [Mana Pistol!] From the tip of Jin's finger a large swirling mass of mana erupted towards Kanashi.
“[Shield]!” Kanashi yelled, casting a small square barrier of mana in front of him which Jin’s emission exploded upon both canceling each other out like they had before.
He added the condition of needing to vocalize his shield activation to boost its durability, not bad! “Now let’s do something a bit crazy…” Jin giggled, clapping his two hands together. [Gravity Amplification: Decrease] + [Mathematician: Multiplication] Though Kanashi had yet to see them Jin had many more blessings he’d inherited through certain means from his family. One of those was the ability to bring the concept of math into the physical realm, [Mathematician].
“!?” Kanashi suddenly flew into the air three dozen feet or so upwards with a large blast of wind. I knew he could increase gravity but he can decrease it as well!?.
Let’s see how you react to this. Jin thought with a smile. [Gravity Amplification: Standard] Jin readjusted the gravitational pull back to normal and Kanashi began to fall back down to the earth at an alarming speed, his face stretched backwards by the air in an unflattering way.
I might die! Kanashi thought in panic. I could try and create a big enough pool of mud that's loose enough to act like reinforced water so I only break a leg or ankle but I don't know how to create mud if I’m not touching the ground to imbue it with water!
“Tch.” Jin spat with a frown.
“?” Kanashi stopped falling and fell limp in the air, he looked up and saw Jin standing next to him in the air as well.
“If someone sends you into the air I guess you're dead.”
“I’m not expecting somebody to do something like that! Besides, why do you have so many blessings?! You said it was a random mutation that’s not genetic nor inheritable!”
“Ehhh? Did I say that? Well that’s mostly true but there’s other means to gain a blessing but you’re not ready to learn about that yet.” Jin said, looking away playfully and teleporting both of them to the ground. [Flight: Disable]
“Ow!” Kanashi yelped as he fell straight to the ground with a “donk”, “You could have at least let me get my feet under me!”
“Please, I already saved you once. You could at least try and help yourself.” Jin sighed, “But more importantly… I think you passed!”
“Huh?”
“Well not completely, but this should be fine for now since you're not going to get into any scuffles with someone even nearly as skilled as me. So I think you’re good enough to go for a test mission.”
“Mission?” Kanashi asked excitedly with a grin, jumping to hug Jin.
“Calm down little guy.” Jin said as he pushed Kanashi back with his hand, We’ll have to pick something basic… Both of them teleported into one of the Venator Towers' many lobbies where Jin let go of Kanashi and walked over to the reception counter.
Man… no matter how many times we do that I’ll never get used to it… Kanashi thought, looking down at his hands. The feeling of teleporting was such a strange thing to describe, It was like spinning in a circle super fast while also being thrown across a great distance at the same time. As someone who was generally prone to motion sickness it was interestingly not a trigger for him to vomit but that wasn't something he was going to complain about.
“Ahem.” Jin coughed as he looked over to the young lady behind the reception counter. She was sitting down and quickly filling out a pile of paperwork. When she looked up at Jin with a scowl he put on a not very charming smile and pulled down his sunglasses, fluttering his eyelashes. “I’m here to find a mission to go on.” He said with a deep voice.
This guy… Kanashi grimaced creeping up to the counter as well.
“A mission?” The receptionist asked, raising an eyebrow and looking up at Jin. “Yeah, I have some stuff to show my little friend here.” Jin said, cocking his head back to Kanashi and patting him on the shoulder.
Kanashi in return smiled as wide and hard as he could which just ended up looking rather disturbing. The lady, still in visible confusion and shock as well as disgust, from seeing Kanashis smile and
turned her attention to the computer in front of her where she typed on the keyboard which clicked loudly as each button was pressed.
In the back of the small receptionist pod the printer sprung to life with a whistle and spewed out a collection of papers. The lady stood up and walked over to the printer, her shoes clicking on the tile as she walked which made Kanashi feel very nervous for some strange reason. As if she was in a bad mood.
Did she not think my smile was charming? I mean my female family members always said I had a handsome smile which I know is just lip service but I didn't think it was THAT Bad…
“These are all the missions which have yet to be accepted.” The lady said as she handed the bundle of papers to Jin and Kanashi noisily tried to look at the papers as Jin started to flip through them.
“Clam down!” Jin commanded, pushing Kanashi back down the ground and off his tippy toes. “Hmmm ..I think we’ll do this one.” He said after flipping through a few of the pages.
He handed the paper to Kanashi who quickly scanned the freshly printed page.
[Local Witch casting curses and creating trouble in Nefurt. Location and other information unknown, 5 deaths confirmed. Rank 3 Mission, $5400 reward]
“Sounds scary.” Kanashi shuddered, handing the papers back to Jin.
“Nah, We’ll be fine. Most of these small-time criminals are sloppy with their magic and leave behind traces that are easy to track if you know what you’re looking for.”
“If you say so…” Kanashi muttered nervously, “Well I think Nefurt is located more to the south right?” He asked while trying to imagine the map of Afurenthos in his head.
“Yeah something like that, But I don't have a [Way Point] set there so we’ll have to take the train instead of teleporting.”
“Wait, you need waypoints to teleport somewhere!? Then how did you teleport to where I was in the air?”
“Oh, I set one on your back when we first met.” Jin said nonchalantly as he put his hand into his pocket and pulled out his phone which he began to type on.
“Wait what?!” Kanashi yelled trying to look behind him and pulling on his shirt to look for any kind of mark with [Observation].
“It’s on your skin so the only way to remove it would be carving that layer of flesh off.” Jin sighed as he clicked his phone closed and put it back in his pocket.
“That’s really not cool, You should have at least asked me first!”.
“Oh you’ll be fine so get over it. Don't worry I won't teleport in on you jerking off or anything like that-”
“Jin!” The lady behind the counter yelled, raising to her feet, “Would you please take your friend and go on the mission you chose already?” She asked as a vein popped out on her temple. She was obviously already upset and Jin's indecent comment seemed to be the straw that had broken the camel's back.
“?” Kanashi looked around to see everyone in the lobby staring at him and Jin which made him shudder in embarrassment. Oh no… I might cry…
“Whaaaat? We’re just joking!” Jin said leaning in close to the womans face, “Please don't get mad at me, It doesn't suit your pretty face-”
“!”
The ladies fist embedded itself into Jin's jaw with a loud “Whack” which made him stumble backwards and his sunglasses fly in the air.
Deserved! Everyone in the lobby thought as Jin caught himself and stood up.
“Alright then Kanashi, Let’s go!” Jin yelled out confidently and put his sunglasses back on.
“...Okay then!” Kanashi called back excitedly, he quietly pushed what had just happened to the back of his mind as something to deal with later but before leaving he signaled an apology to the receptionist who rolled her eyes at him and sat back down to finish her work.
Jin's physical form may be overwhelmingly perfect but his attitude was generally awful. The ultimate Monkey Paw for a woman. Actually no, a lot of women like to be treated badly from kanashi's experience so maybe he really was the perfect man. Either way it didn’t matter.
Jin grabbed Kanashi once again by the shoulder and the pair teleported down into the city of Historia below the tower.
Kanashi had yet to visit the actual city of Historia so for him to suddenly appear in the middle of it was a jarring experience. He looked around where they had just appeared and saw it was the outside of a medium size brick train station. People along the sidewalks walked in all directions, some giving a strange look at Jin and Kanashi who had just appeared out of nowhere. They probably saw them appear out of thin air but didn't want to press the topic so instead just gossiped from a distance.
The City of Historia itself was very old, encased in a gargantuan set of walls which were about 50 meters tall and 10 meters wide made of a thick mana reinforced brick according to Jin. The walls were erected sometime in the past, probably during the War Of Knowledge, the largest war in Afurnethos ancient past which occurred when one side of the country wanted to pursue religion while the other science. What started out as a small argument ended up being a 200 year war that left the land in ruins. In the end both sides didn't even know what they were fighting about anymore, just that they were fighting each other so they decided to call a truce and settled down here in Historia, the science capital at the time. Or at least that’s one of the tales behind its creation. There’s a few others but those aren't nearly as cool.
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Historia was a pedestrian focused city since a majority of its time existing predated anything like cars, the roads were big enough for a few small horse drawn carriages to pass through but since that wasn't a constant occurrence it was mostly focused on sidewalks and pathways. The buildings were stacked atop one another making it look like an upside down funnel slowly getting taller and skinner the higher you went and in the middle was the Venator Tower.
The city was famous for of course the Venator Society Tower but also the grand Library Of Rupertia the world's oldest known library full of all sorts of things. The word library wasn't entirely correct either since it also had a museum-like purpose with plenty of artifacts from history scattered across it.
Roughly twenty percent of the library was allowed to be explored by customers and guests while 45% by universities and only those with the utmost credentials such as high ranking members of the Venator Society were capable of using all 100% of the material offered. Something Kanashi happened to be a part of which made him create countless plans of how to explore the library.
“Alright let’s book a train.” Jin said, tapping Kanashi on the shoulder to get his attention.
“Oh, yeah sure.” Kanashi muttered, turning back to Jin and following him inside the station.
# # #
“The Train will soon arrive at Nefurt, Please begin to prepare yourself for exiting.” The train's intercom rang out.
Kanashi looked over to Jin who was drooling in his sleep. They’d been on the train for about nine hours and Kanashis motion sickness was at its max.
“Jin wake up!” He groaned trying to shake him, but as he reached for Jin's shoulder his hand bounced off of an invisible barrier.
“Huh?” Kanashi hummed cocking his head to the side, activating Observation he saw a solid bubble of mana around Jin as he slept. “I never noticed that before, Does he only use it when not at the tower?” Is it like a [Shield] then but just constant? “Jin, we're almost there, wake up!” Kanashi yelled, knocking on the barrier.
“What?” Jin muttered, opening his eyes. “We’re here?” He asked with a yawn and stretch.
“Hey what’s up with this barrier?” Kanahsi asked, still knocking on its side.
“Oh, It’s a spell I made, I normally use it when I’m not in the tower.”
“Is it like a shield?”
“Hmm, Sorta. Shields are just a kind of barrier that's small and easy to cast. You can create a larger barrier and use it for different reasons like to keep someone out of somewhere or have it act like a tripwire, Cameras or at its peak a Liminal Realm. This is just a barrier I use to protect myself from any kind of surprise attacks.” Jin said, relaxing back into his seat with another yawn.
Liminal Realm… Kanashi hummed as he thought back on what Jin had told him about those. “A Liminal realm is the peak of Spatial Manipulation and some people think of magic itself, Not many people can use them but they’re basically a pocket dimension that people can imbue commands into. The best way to get around them is to not get caught in them.” Yeah that’s about the gist if I remember correctly. But I wanna know more.
“Hey Jin, can you explain more about Liminal Realms?”
“Hmm? Yeah, what do you want to know?” Jin asked, sitting up straight.
“Well what kind of commands can you put into them?”
“Oh, Well you can do many things with them, Most people focus on making it kill their opponent with a command like [Anyone one who enters this catches on fire] but that’s a basic use since you can easily defend against, other people use them as a storage for items like putting away weapons when not needed or a thief hiding away stolen goods. Basically there’s a lot of uses but you shouldn't have to worry about that since no one you encounter will probably use one.”
“Got it…” Kanashi responded, No one I run into will use one huh? “Well what if I do?”
“I’ll show you when we get back from this.” Jin said with a smile as the train came to a stop and the doors swung open.
The pair quickly rushed off the train into the station. It was very small with few people around and only a vending machine and bathroom in sight.
“This place only has a population of about 30,000 people so this shouldn't be too hard.” Jin said, putting a coin into the vending machine.
“That’s a lot of people still.” Kanashi replied as he caught the can of soda Jin threw to him.
“If all 30,000 were magic users then yeah but only about 20% of the people here should even know about magic and maybe 1% are strong enough to kill people without being caught by a cop or detective who knows magic.”
“So about 300 people?” Kanashi glanced around the station with observation, but saw no one with a controlled aura.
“First let’s go grab something to eat.” Jin said as he put his palm on the brick wall.
“Is that a [Way Point] now?”
“Yep.” Jin took his hand off the wall and walked towards the station's exit with Kanashi in tow.
# # #
“This is pretty good.” Kanashi said between slurps of noodles.
“Yeah it’s alright.” Jin muttered, stacking his 3rd empty bowl to the side, “But we’re not just here to eat, We’re also looking out for any suspicious characters.”
“I thought spies hide in the shadows and use binoculars so why aren't we doing that?.” Kanashi asked as he took a sip of his juice.
“In movies sure but that’s just for dramatic effect in real life that won't work. The best way is just to act casual and observe- "Oh thank you.” Jin said, taking another bowl of Ramen from the waiter.
I only just finished my first and I’m already full.. Kanashi frowned. “So we just gotta look out for people acting weird?”
“Yep, I picked this place because It’s cheap and casual, the kinda place where someone who takes hits for money would hang out.”
“I would’ve thought they would go to a more expensive restaurant if they were getting paid good money.”
“No, that'd be suspicious if they did it too often, maybe once in a while but especially not after a recent “hit” since that could draw attention to them. If some bum suddenly has enough money to go to a fancy restaurant right after a murder is committed, who do you think was the one responsible? Even for those who don't use magic, that's obvious.” Jin sighed as he placed his newly 4th empty bowl into the pile. “Also we might hear some kind of gossiping around here or get hit on by someone advertising for the [Witch.]”
I thought they’d do it in some back alley or graveyard but I guess that’d be more suspicious huh? Most drug dealers sell out in broad daylight to not draw attention… “Hey, can't you find the person with your magic somehow? Expand a big sensory barrier and know who can and can’t use magic?”
“Yeah I could, but you aren't able to so it wouldn't help you at all. I’m doing this to teach you how to do this kinda thing like the average [Venator] would.”
“I thought I was in Edo to just put up Waypoints for you…” Kanashi muttered with a scowl.
“Who knows what will happen~? But anyways, let's try another place since no one suspicious has shown up here in the past hour.” Jin said, rising to his feet with a stretch.
“Oh alright.” Kanashi said getting up and stretching his own legs.
After paying Jin and Kanashi left the restaurant and walked down the road looking for another casual place, seeing the now setting sun Kanashi pulled out his phone to check the time.
“It’s pretty late, should we find a place to stay?”
“No, we'll keep looking through the night, that shouldn't be a problem for you right? You always stay up at night.”
“I thought you didn't stalk me!?” Kanashi asked angrily, throwing a punch at Jin who easily blocked it.
“Hey did you notice that guy?”Jin said suddenly after the pair played around for a few moments.
“Huh?” Kanashi looked where Jin had indicated to see someone walking towards them on the sidewalk. Using his Observation he saw their aura controlled and flowing unnaturally. “Is that our guy?”
“I dunno, Let's find out," Jin quickly intercepted the man walking towards them on the sidewalk with a warm smile. “Yo man, Me and my friend have never been here before so we’re looking for somewhere to crash for the night. You know a good spot?”
The man looked at Jin with a face full of annoyance and then turned to Kanashi who got the same treatment.
If he knows how to use observation he should be able to tell we’re magic users, right? Kanashi clutched his hands as he watched Jin continue chattering away to the man.
“!?”
Using observation Kanashi s aw that Jin’s aura was flowing as if he had no idea what magic even was, in fact it flowed so uncontrolled that it covered Kanashis from sight making it impossible to see his flow of controlled aura. Holy shit, that’s awesome I wanna be able to do that!” He thought while trying not to smile.
“There’s a Motel twelve around the corner that I’ve crashed at before.” The man sighed while pointing behind him with his thumb.
“Really? I feel like we looked over there earlier and didn't see anything.” Jin laughed.
“It’s there.” The man replied with a shrug.
“Would you mind showing us?”
“I’m busy right now so no.” The man tried to push his way past Jin who who stepped in front of him again.
“I’m kinda nervous about walking around here at night. You never know if there’s some crazy person up to no good looking out for two innocent and handsome victims to hurt.” Jin said, shrugging his own shoulders and putting his hands up.
The man's brow twitched as he scowled. Suddenly he threw a punch which Jin easily avoided by leaning back, The man threw another and then another after Jin dodged it.
“Calm down buddy, We’re not looking for trouble.” Jin said with an antagonizing smile which the man grit his teeth at.
Here it comes! Kanashi thought seeing the man's aura focused around his fist.
[Heart Of Steel: Fist Of Iron!] The man's hand became coated in a metallic looking substance, He threw a punch at Jin who again dodged but this time from the man's metallic arm the punch kept going expanding past his own limb as if the metal was stretching out to hit Jin.
[Gravity Amplification: Crush] The man was suddenly thrown to the ground violently and his spell broken.
“I wanted to do this the nice way and only beat you up if you didn't wanna talk after we caught you but looks like we skipped a few steps.” Jin sighed. Using [Telekinesis] he made the still limp man float up into his hand.
“Are you from the [Sinscenaros]?!” The man asked, his face red and bulging with veins.
“I don't even know who that is.” Jin said with a warped smile and squinted eyes.
# # #
“You pigs gonna torture the answer you want outta me?” The man screamed out angrily, He was tied down to a chair in a hotel room with nothing but his underwear and a wife beater on while Jin loomed over him giving judgmental gazes.
“What? No, we're not THAT evil.” Jin said, waving his hand in the air.
We’re evil? Kanashi wondered, raising his eyebrow,
“Now what we want to know is if you have any information about the recent deaths in this city caused by a [Witch]?”
“Witch? I don't even know what you’re talkin’ bout.”
“Hmmmm.” Jin hummed, looming in the man's face and pulling down his sunglasses. “I can see that you’re lying.”
Red eyes?! The man thought upon seeing Jin’s swirling blood like iris peering into his own, “Pfft you must be blind then cause I’m tellin’ you the god's honest truth.”
“Kanashi, come here please.” Jin called out, waving his hand. Kanashi quickly obeyed, walking to Jin's side and looking at the man.
“What’s up?”
“Use your observation on this guy's aura and tell me if you notice anything weird.”
“Alright.” Kanashi said, staring intently at the man's swirling aura, “Hmmm I don't see anything weird.”
“Guess you’re not skilled enough to see the difference.” Jin said with a frown, But It could just be my [Pure Eyes]. he thought , scratching his chin.
“Well in any case Kanashi, when you get captured and interrogated there’s an important part that most people don't know about. If you keep your mouth shut they're gonna mutilate and maybe even kill you and if you give them bullshit they’ll do the same but if you give them little bits of the truth they’ll keep you alive and treat you well. Maybe well isn't the correct term but they’ll keep you healthy enough to give out more information later.”
“I thought my trip to Edo was gonna be more of a vacation thing…” Kanashi muttered with a grimace.
“Alright then buddy let’s make a deal, You tell us what you know about this [Witch] or any suspicious circumstance happening around here and I let you go with no strings attached, Oooor you decide to keep your mouth shut and I kill you.” Jin said paying no attention to Kanashis previous statement.
“Wait Jin-” Kanashi was stopped by Jin's hand holding him back.
“You think I’d trust a pig?” The man asked with a wide but nervous smile.
“Do you think a cop would do this?” Jin asked, creating a finger gun out of his right hand's index finger and pointing it at the man's head. “Let’s count down from five shall we?”
“Piss off?”
“5.”
“Your moms a whore.”
“4.”
“You’re not gonna get away with this you know.”
“3.”
“You hear me you Queer?!”
“2.”
“I’m gonna curse you to death.”
“1.” From the tip of Jin's finger gathered a mass of mana which then exploded out like a bullet aiming for the man's head.
“I’LL TALK!” The man screamed in fear knowing it was already too late. “...?”
“Gotcha.” Jin said and the Bullet stopped midair and swung back into Jin's finger.
“?!”
“I didn't emit my mana, I just applied the property of rubber to it and kept a thin line attached so it would retract when I pulled back.” Jin held up his hand and shot at the floor, the bullet stopped after a few inches and a string of mana was visible. “Now you got one shot so hurry up.”
The man grit his teeth angrily, was the guy interrogating him not someone who killed? No, he for sure was. He was too good at this to not be. If he didn't fork over something then he’d get killed for real this time. “I don't know much about the [Witch] besides what’s been reported but someone in my gang was neighbors with the last girl who died and said he saw a weird doll hanging outside her window on a tree!”
“A doll?” Jin asked, confused.
“Yeah, some small creepy looking thing. He didn’t wanna go near it because it gave off a bad vibe but he doesn't know about magic so he couldn't tell me more.”
A poppet?“ Anything else like potential next victims or hits sold?”
“My gang doesn’t mess with magic. I'm one of the few that knows how to use it because of my pops. The [Sinscenaros] might know more.”
“And who are they?”
“The south side gang, Their hideout is on Douglass and Cincinnati in the mechanics shop's lowest floor.”
“That's everything?”
“I swear!” The man whimpered, he ended up speaking a lot more then he intended to but Jin was just that good at being scary.
Weird, where is that attitude from before? Kanashi wondered. Was it all just for show, like how animals charge people and throw mock bites to scare them away because they themselves are scared?
“All right, All right little buddy I see you’re telling the truth so I’ll keep my promise and let you go.”
“O-Ok!”
“But I gotta do something first!” Jin laughed, grabbing the man's head firmly. “Kanashi, come here please~”
“S-sure.” Kanashi muttered nervously. He was sure Jin was the type to fulfill his promises but if this guy wasn't someone he was obligated to care about… well he’s not going to hurt him or anything, maybe just put on a tracker of some sorts? Hopefully…
“W-what’re you doing man you said I’d be free to go with no strings!” The man cried.
“No strings means nothing after you leave, not before then.” Jin said tightening his grip.
“What are you doing?” Kanashi asked as a bead of sweat dripped down his cheek.
“So the brain is almost like a computer with the Hippocampus in the Temporal lobe acting as a hard drive. It creates and connects neurons to make memories.” Jin said as he turned to Kanashi.
“And?”
“Theoretically if you destroy that part of the brain while instantly healing it up to a certain point where the new neural connections are, you'd never be able to know what happened in this time here because it’s as if this time never existed in your mind. The memories of us interrogating him right here and right now would be wiped out and the only thing he’d remember is walking down the street. Though I’ve never tested it out before and it takes extreme precision to know when to stop healing the destroyed neurons I want to give it a try.”
Wow that’s kinda sick, you’re just joking though right Jin?
“WAIT I PROMISE I WON'T TELL-” The man tried to plead but his jaw suddenly dropped and his eyes rolled into the back of his skull with a quiver.
Wow! Okay maybe not! Kanashi shuttered looking at Jin's facial expression which reflected childish curiosity and malicious intent. It was different from any part of Jin that Kanashi had seen before. This is like some Evil Scientist stuff…
“Done.” Jin said after about 30 seconds, he lifted his hand from the man's head which fell forwards as red steam came from his ears and blood from his nose and eyes.
Did it work?! Kanashi wondered as the man began to wake and groan.
“Alright good to go~” Jin hummed and then stabbed the man in his neck with his index finger making him fall unconscious.
“That was kinda messed up Jin…” Kanashi said with a bead of sweat dripping down his forehead, “What if that didn't work?”
“What do you mean?”
“Like what if that failed and his brain got all screwed up?”
“It wouldn't have.”
“Why not? It's always possible for things to go wrong.”
“Kanashi, a 100 out of 100 times I would have done it perfectly. The concept of failure does not exist in my actions only in others.” Jin said matter of factly while picking the man up and swinging him over his shoulder.
How can he be so confident in himself?! I understand his strength but is he really so selfish that he would do anything because of that confidence?
“All right let’s go dump this guy back where we found him with a bottle of alcohol in his hand and head to the [Sinscenaros] hide out.”