(Chapter 39)
After locking the door to his room with Yang Manli on his body.
They can hear some screaming banshees again outside that have been reprimanded by Qin Xuan.
Yang Manli smiled and took a seat on his bed while seducing him but only to feel something out of Shyrveen.
"... What's wrong darling?"
Shyrveen glances at her face for several seconds and sighed, then took a seat on his bed too beside Yang Manli, but don't know what to do.
'... What the hell I'm doing?... I'm just gonna hurt her... What happened to my original goal?... Isn't this rudeness for my family that I pushed to their deaths? And suddenly, I will gonna live happily with this 'ever after'?... Who am I?... What am I?... Excitement and desire... What's the use of it if I don't know myself...'
"Darling?..."
Shyrveen looked at her eyes and ask.
"... Let me ask you first, what will you do, if this body is the cause of my family to be dead?..."
"That... How?"
"I pushed them to the jaws of death."
"... Why?"
"Cowardness"
"... T-This..."
Shyrveen sighed again and looked at her eyes that so lively a few seconds ago and now saddened and confused, compared to the reflection of his eyes on the water while checking his appearance back to the cave. It is too dead.
"... And what will you do if you found out that you're just a program to make the body works and keeping going?..."
Yang Manli stunned again after the words of Shyrveen sunk on her mind, she was confused. She doesn't know what to do.
"!!! W-What do you mean, darling?... Having this 'Sin' isn't the only thing you're carrying!?"
Shyrveen nodded and think of something before asking again.
"Do you have AI here?"
She subconsciously answer the simplest fact but was shocked after realizing what he meant and grabs Shyrveen's face.
"Yes... !!! T-That can't be possible, darling... Don't joke just like that... That isn't funny at all!"
"... But I'm not... Haa..."
Shyrveen sighed as he lay down his body on his bed and stared at the ceiling.
Silence covered the whole room for ten minutes before Yang Manli heard him again.
"... There are other two personalities... Or specifically, two souls inside my mind that has been fighting at each other for a decade, and I've been created or programmed to attend this emptied body for the same decade too...
Just like what Artificial Intelligence does except for there are no more orders from them and I've been doing things by myself... I don't even know if I really do have a soul in the first place...
And seeing your face earlier makes me think that it's unfair for you... Rationally speaking, if one of them became a victor... I'll disappear and the Shyrveen that you know of, will never be the same again, forever..."
"... T-Then saying like this, the 'Sin' you're carrying was not made by you, right? But made by this 'Souls' that you're talking about..."
Yang Manli wants to confirm something first after piecing some information from Shyrveen, to eliminate the first problem, which she sighed in relief after seeing Shyrveen nodded.
But she is still stuck to the second problem, this is her first time hearing something like this, she gets the point but doesn't know how to respond.
"Loving me that can't even love you back... Isn't that, the much worst thing than being rejected or being with you?..."
"... T-Then... W-What do you, YOU, want to do?"
That's the only thing she can ask him because, if she answered something like: "I'll accept you for whoever you are or those personalities or entities inside you.": will be rude to Shyveen.
She can feel that Shyrveen is feeling guilty about the 'Sin' that wasn't made by him. It wasn't him but the body makes him that he did that 'Sin' too, but with this reasoning, she somehow can accept this first problem.
"... You mean, without the influences of the body's memories and experiences and the two souls?..."
Shyrveen was stunned then think this over after seeing Yang Manli nodded.
"Thinking something like that... My mind wants to feel... Wants to love you back... My mind doesn't want to think about seeing you crying or sad... Hee... Weird right?... How can I say such a thing if I really can't feel nor express emotions..."
Then after hearing his confession, she found hope and excitedly shouted to him with tears on her face.
"... Then we will get back those emotions!"
But only to be confused after seeing the dead eyes again of Shyrveen and waited for him to say what's on his mind.
"Sweety... That's the problem, they fought leaving the body emptied, of soul, mind, and emotions...
It is hard to fight them head-on since they have souls... And let's say that even if I have soul, but it is like a fight between an ant and an elephant..."
Shyrveen sighed and can only shake his head and thought.
'Don't mention that there's a possibility that this Soul Shards and Genes to strengthen the 'my' Soul Strength is not being applied to me but only to the body to synchronized with them again... Which will be the end of me...'
While Yang Manli wants to shout at him like: "Then absorb them, or merge with them!": But she realized that, it is really easy to do that thing? After knowing the 'Sin'. She doesn't know at all.
"Haa... I don't have any plan to think like this and let it be, but once you got in my view... I need to think this and you need to know today... Because you will feel the worst pain if you got the news or once got to know about this thing in the future... And worst, you will only realize or notice this, the moment that I am not me anymore..."
He said honestly and truthfully at her that made her shut up, bit her lips, and cried silently then she hugs him tightly.
After thirty minutes.
Yang Manli finally decided and looked up to see his eyes.
"We will do something about that in the future, but as of now, I want to confirm this... You will accept me as your lover then?..."
Shyrveen stared at her and pats her head down to her back to be caress.
"Of course, I will... And this is the reason why I can't do this in the first place..."
Yang Manli smiled with happiness but with bitterness too, she sniffed while Shyrveen is wiping her tears, then she continued.
"Then as I was saying, we might find something in the future to deal with that problem of yours... And I don't mind this 'Sin' that you're talking about...
Honestly speaking, I want to beat the shit out of you if you really did that as 'you' and not as those 'Souls' that inside of that body...
After all, after hearing what you said, it made me think about our future and imagined you doing something like that... And it's making me angry at you, you know? But with this reasoning, I can accept this. Because I know that you're not that coward from the past...
And so for now, let's enjoy every second as being lovers officially..."
"Oops, not yet..."
Yang Manli was stunned then became confused for what he means, she wants to get angry but she waited for him to continue.
Shyrveen sits up and made Yang Manli to sit up too, facing him in crossed legs on the bed.
Then he lay his palm facing the sky in between them, pinch for his finger to be wounded and bleed slowly, and willed the ice element to be compressed and soon took the shape of one piece of a red carnation flower with his blood and a blue crystallized stem in a hairpin style.
"... As a Filipino-..."
"Filipino?... What's that?"
"I'm a Filipino citizen, people of the country that is called the Philippines... But for now, I'll stop here. The planet where I live is too much to handle for you, I think?..."
"... Alright... Then continue what you're saying again, darling."
"As a Filipino, we men, supposed to ask the women to be our lover and not the other way around, while doing some serenade to do that to express our intention to pursue. The girls are viewing that as more romantic and a sign of deep love of men for them...
It is weird to say romantic since I can't express emotions. But, I think it is fine to sing a song for you while giving this hairpin to you to indicate myself, my mind, is so serious about you...
And once you accepted this hairpin, it will officially declare you that you're mine..."
"I will be glad to hear and experience this kind of pursuing!"
"Then... Will you be my girlfriend even with my big flaws?"
"Yes! Of course! Darling!"
With four hours of personal love life things between them, they are satisfied hugging each other while savoring each warmth of the bodies on the bed, with no sexual intercourse.
Then Yang Manli softly mumbles while her head is on Shyrveen's chest.
"Thank you, and I love you, Shyrveen Yñiguez... We will find something to deal with your problems... Just pray and don't leave me in a blink of an eye if something happens, okay?..."
"... I won't."
Shyrveen said while kissing the forehead of Yang Manli.
After two hours of napping. They woke up after hearing a loud knock on the door.
It was Qin Xuan and stated outside while joking.
"Times up lazy asses! Are you abandoning your work, Yang Manli!? And you, dead man! Six hours was already plenty of time for you to cuddle my best friend! It will cost you a Sacred-Blood Beast Soul if you keep that up!"
"..."
"..."
"Alright, Xuan Xuan~ I'm coming."
Yang Manli stands up as she stretches her arms while answering Qin Xuan then looked at Shyrveen that sitting on the bed and kiss his lips deep.
"I'll be going now... And don't leave and hunt this time... It's only been three days after you appeared and you're so busy."
"I will, Mrs. Yñiguez~"
Than made Yang Manli blushed and hurriedly went outside while mumbling what Shyrveen said repeatedly but didn't forget to wear the not meltable hairpin that he made for her, on her hair.
"..."
Shyrveen shrugs and thought.
'What should I do now?... Ah, the things... Hmmm?...
The man in the Soul Shard and I'll call him Eggie... Said that there's three shards in me... Soul Shards contain different powers...
Then the two of them are Space and Time? But I can't harness it since I still lack Mana?... But what's the third?... Is it my ability to meddle with Beast Souls? Then what kind of element is that?...
And he said that there's a piece of Death Element... Not a shard... Death... Sung Jin-Woo?... Yeah, his power has that nature... But I already gave back the shadows... Wait, something he gave me?... Then isn't that the system?...
Ohh... I see... The backer of Sung Jin-Woo is one of the Monarchs... It shouldn't be a Ruler since the power of Death is sure in the Dark Side...
!!!
Then aren't they trying to reincarnate improperly too like Eggie?... I should warn Jin-Woo once I got back...
Now... Ahh... Beast Souls... What kind of element is this third shard seriously?... Shapeshifting? But that's a skill... Ugh... What a headache... I'll stop this for now and I should merge the Mutant Arrow first...'
He stops thinking and summoned the two Mutant Beast Souls first to merge into (3 Stars) in one try.
'... So, unless I do this half-assedly, the merging will be always successful...'
Then he started to merge the two (3 Stars) fishes and became Sacred-Blood Infant Jade-Scaled Fish (1 Star).
'... And I thought it will go straight to (4 Stars)... Does evolving them via merging is the common way?...
And every time I merge the raw Beast Souls will instantly be the star/s of the stage? Like: Ordinary is 1 Star, Primitive is 2 Stars, Mutant is 3 Stars, and Sacred-Blood is 4 Stars... Then the Super is 5 Stars?...
Eh?... Then there should beyond Super?... Wouldn't that mean the end of the universe? If there's beyond Super, their power will be like in planetary scale then... Alright, there will be a chance to know more about this... But for now...
I need to gain plenty of Mutant Beast Soul of Crimson Iron-Bone Fish or try to hunt to gain the Beast Soul of Sacred-Blood Jade-Scaled Fish to merge them into a Super Beast Soul...
Super... I should obtain 50 Super Geno Points first before trying to merge them... Two Sacred-Bloods already broke down my body, if it's Super... That will kill me instantly, no?...'
Shyrveen Yñiguez: Not Evolved
Status: None
Life Span: 200 Years
Required for Evolution: 100 Geno Points
Geno Points Gained:
- Ordinary Geno Points: 100
- Primitive Geno Points: 67
- Mutant Geno Points: 39
- Sacred Geno Points: 17
- Super Geno Points: 9
Beast Souls Gained:
- Ordinary Black Beetle
- Ordinary Illusionist Snake
- Ordinary Azure-Tailed Eagle
- Sacred-Blood Jade-Scaled Fish
- Sacred-Blood Infant Jade-Scaled Fish (1 Star)
- Sacred-Blood Obsidian Dragon (4 Stars)
'I forgot to eat anything after arriving here...'
Then Shyrveen was stunned and thought after remembering something.
'... Since I can merge and put and take my mana into the Beast Souls... I should merge this Ordinary Beast Souls to an at least Sacred-Blood then... And seriously?... I need to hunt sickle and short staff or pole type Beast Souls, my requested weapon that in my inventory are both getting rusty. Tch...
And lastly... Hunting the Obsidian Dragons should be harder than Jade-Scaled Fishes... I'll do first making my Ordinary Beast Souls to Scared-Blood but if I can't within a day, then just Mutant should be fine for now...'
He plans his things for tomorrow in the very morning to get ready first before doing the deal that he made with Qin Xuan...