[Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique].

- Informal investigation team Boss, Recruit, and Subordinate. -

"[Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique]?"(Recruit).

"Yes, [Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique]. The technique has a special ability called [Feast Of The Crimson King], that lets you boost temporarily a part of your body according to the animal you have eaten. For example, if you eat the Snout of a Dog, you can temporarily gain a better sense of smell. Or if you eat some type of jellyfish you temporarily gain the ability to secret poison that burns and gives an effect similar to a sunburn. But you need to eat those things raw and fresh, It is disgusting but every technique has a price."(Boss).

"Well, it looks powerful and all. But aren't all cultivators already with better senses than a normal human? It looks pretty inferior to the other you spoke about. And from where is this technique? aren't they supposed to be some super-secret Origin technique that only the best should know of?"(Recruit).

"Calm down Recruit. Let me finish the story..."(Boss).

"Sorry..."(Recruit).

"The strength of the [Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique] lies especially on its name. Most of the boosts you receive when eating things are temporary. But Skin is totally different The principal focus of this technique is [Flesh], or to be more specific [Skin]. When you eat the skin, the boost isn't that high, no it's rather minuscule compared to other parts of your meal. But the skin boost is permanent."(Boss).

"Wait... Wait... Are you telling me that the boost to the skin is permanent?"(Recruit).

"Yes, that is one of the reasons this technique is terrifying. The user can eat animal skin over and over and his skin will slowly increase in durability. So even if this technique doesn't give the might or the insane physical strength of the [Black Heaven and Earth Technique], it still extremely terrifying just for this alone. But there is something else about his technique... "(Boss).

"The case you were investigating is about cannibalism right?... wait, don't tell me..."(Recruit).

"Unfortunately yes. As much as we would like to negate it, we humans are in fact animals, intelligent animals but animals nonetheless. And the user of the [Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique] was smart enough to reach that simple conclusion."(Boss).

"But the moment he ate just a little bit of human flesh he understood, the true vile purpose of the [Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique]. The boost someone gets from eating human flesh could easily dwarf any animal by far, it was like he was multiplying his own senses as he cannibalized instead of just a simple boost. The boost could last for longer periods and the increase was bigger. Another boost was the skin, of course, humans have a lot of skin and very few hindrances in their bodies. Different from animals that like fur, fins, or even toxins and parasites on their skins, so eating human skin even if it doesn't give a bigger bonus is way easier than animal skin. "(Boss).

"But, what truly set the [Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique] apart was when someone eats the human brain. Normally eating the brain of most animals rarely gives a boost seeing as how different or sometimes underdeveloped their brains are compared to us humans, but eating the human brain made the user not stronger, but something even more terrifying. Smarter."(Boss).

"It was temporary of course, but a smart foe is something extremely hard to deal with. We only caught the clues due to the inevitable bouts of uncontrollable animalistic fury some users of these Origin skills have. Sadly the more the guy used the [Feast Of The Crimson King], the more he gained control of it, So soon his bursts of animal tendencies were controlled and dealt with. So we now had a smart foe that had steel-like skin, was smart, and probably held a high level of cultivation. For all intents and purposes, the murim alliance should be screwed against a foe like that."(Boss).

"Yeah, I mean. The guy is strong, smart, and has almost impenetrable skin. He sounds like some kind of final boss."(Recruit).

"Yeah, And that would be exactly the case. If eating human brains didn't have just an unfortunate Side effect."(Boss).

"Side effect?"(Recruit).

"Of course every technique no matter what has a downside to it. And eating human brains with the [Feast Of The Crimson King] does indeed make you incredibly smart. But it also damages your brain, liking it or not the human brain wasn't made to function at double or triple its normal capacity, so every time he ate a human brain he got some kind fo brain damage. But it is not a normal type of brain damage, no it's a Ki-given brain damage. So instead of losing memory or functions of the body, he got mad."(Boss).

"MAD?"(Recruit).

"Yup, the more he ate brains to boost his mind, the more he damaged it. His sanity was slowly rotting away, his decision-making ability getting distorted by every brain he had eaten. Se we were able to finally caught the bastard thanks to it."(Boss).

"Wow. But you talked a lot about the [Crimson Flesh And Diamond Technique], and you also said those Origin techniques are each owned by some super organization like our Murim Alliance. So who the fuck has such a cruel technique on its rankings?"(Recruit).

"First there are no Bad or vile techniques, only bad and vile users. It like saying that knife is only for killing when it can be used to cook, carve, and a bunch of other things."(Boss).

"He could've just simply be satiated eating animals instead of people. But he chooses the easy way out and paid for it."(Boss).

"And yeah, there is indeed a place the technique came from. It's Aztec in origin, and no organization is in possession of it."(Boss).

"But if no organization is in possession of it, where the heck a cannibal found it? This sounds pretty fishy to me..."(Recruit).

"Yeah, for all intents and purposes this technique shouldn't be on the hands of a criminal."(Boss).

"So how does it all happened? you told me a lot about those Origin techniques even the Aztec origin of the [Crimison Flesh And Diamond Technique], but I still know no details about exactly what happened."(Recruit).

"Well, so it finally came to it. I guess now that I am already here I can tell you about who the cannibal is and what mess he has caused."(Boss).

"On the summer of 1959 in Rome, during a storm, a boy named Gozo was born. Gozo was a very healthy boy, exceptionally so. Unfortunately, Gozo has been dealt a very bad hand in life. His mother died on his birth seconds after choosing a name for him."(Boss).

"His father Gazo loved his wife Rosa more than anything. They were childhood sweethearts that stayed together until they eventually married, Gazo found a good job and Rosa was happy in taking care of things home. Soon with a stable and happy life a baby came, Rosa was pregnant. Both were extremely happy of course. But unfortunately, tragedy struck on what should be a happy day, Rosa died after birthing Gozo, which is now a son to a single father."(Boss).

"Gazo was extremely devastated, rightfully so. But now he had a baby to take care of, so he held his sadness and he did his best to take care of Gozo."(Boss).

"Gazo took care of his son working hard and paying for a babysitter during the time he had to work. Unfortunately as strong as Gazo was, he wasn't made of iron so his sadness and negative emotions were quickly catching up to him. So he needed something to relax to de-stress, he turned to prostitution."(Boss).

"No, he didn't become a male prostitute. He started searching and paying for a hooker to help him alleviate his raging and bottled up emotions, it worked fine for him at the start, he would pay a hooker to alleviate his loneliness and stress, and then go home to his growing baby Gozo."(Boss).

"It was all fine and dandy until Gazo fell in love with a hooker. It was something unexpected even for him, but unfortunately, we can't control the matters of the heart."(Boss).