Chapter 180 - 180: Forest Insects
Theo looked at the young man. He was 131 cm tall, completely naked, with slightly dark skin, short dark hair, a pair of dog ears on top of his head and a black tail.
He looked at Theo with slightly more glow in his previously dead fish eyes, showing intelligence. Although this was not able to erase the pain and hellish suffering that he had to go through, the memories were still fresh in his mind.
Theo already knew that just this wasn't enough, but it was a start that he was able to restore the boy's body back to normal.
_ _
[4 System Points were deducted]
_ _
Theo bought 4 simple articles of clothing from his System. "Can you understand what I'm saying?" Seeing the boy nodded, Theo gave the clothes he bought to the boy, "You can wear these clothes."
Theo realized that he was about to wear the shorts without first putting on the underwear. He had warned him that he had to wear them before the shorts. The kid thought it was weird but just nodded and complied. All this time, he hadn't said a word. He was like a machine that just listened to commands. Theo could only reason that this was due to training he went through in the Kenedy Clan.
Theo sighed and asked him, "I can erase all the memories of the bad things you experienced in the Kenedy Clan. Would you like me to do that for you?"
"Ohhh…" The boy looked surprised by this, and his eyes even wavered a little as a new light passed through them. The strangest thing was that only a few tears came out of his dark brown right eye.
"Y-Yes!" The boy nodded vigorously with his head.
Even though there was a chance that this stranger was lying, he still wanted to forget everything that the Kenedy Clan did to him, if at all possible. Because of that trauma, he didn't hesitate to agree.
-
-
In the Insect Forest, a few thousand kilometres north of the Ravena City.
"Young master, a flock of insect monsters is coming towards us again," A middle-aged man spoke.
"Again? This place is tough to get through. No wonder no one wants to claim this land." A handsome young man with tanned skin, black eyes and dark hair, looking like someone between 18 and 19 years old, rode in a luxury carriage. He shook his head while wondering how many times he had been attacked by groups of insect monsters so far.
"Breno, will you fight again?" A young girl with light skin and blonde hair, greenish-brown eyes, slender and mature body, asked him, with her soft and delicate voice.
"Eeeeh? What's that horrible smell?" The young blonde who had just spoken suddenly screamed and covered her nose.
"It was bad, it was bad, Jenny, it just slipped away." The young man called the young master / Breno laughed aloud a little bit crudely.
"Wow! You're always like that!" The young blonde, Jenny, snorted and turned her face away while still holding her nose.
Breno scratched his head and changed the subject. "We're close to the Naga Empire, and I'm really looking forward to this year's tournament. I hope I can make it into the top ten this time around." He said wittily, with a strong desire for the upcoming competition.
Jenny nodded in agreement as she used her wind to ward off the smell from her and said, "Yes, but before that, get out and deal with those incoming insects."
"Sure, I was about to do exactly that!" He answered and left right away.
-
-
Theo made the boy sit in a chair that he made with his illusion. He then put his hand on the boy's head to facilitate the procedure and began to control the boy's mind little by little with his mental power.
When Theo does this process, he could relate a person's mind to that of a computer. There are several different file directories, and some are even protected with passwords or hidden. It all depends on how much the person wants to hide them.
But since Theo's Divine Sense and soul were powerful, he had to invade the boy's mind with the utmost care to not destroy his mind or his consciousness. If he did that, the boy would lose any intelligence and become nothing more than a living organism without a will.
Delving deep into the boy's mind and "excluding" everything he saw as traumatic, this process ended up taking almost an hour for Theo to finish cleansing his mind.
This also put a fair amount of strain on Theo's mind due to the effort involved to keep complete control of the procedure. Now done, Theo sighed in relief as he saw that he had succeeded. The boy who didn't show much brightness in his eyes before, now looked at Theo with his bright greenish-brown eyes like he was someone entirely different.
The boy looking at Theo asked him, "Who are you? And why am I here?"
Theo had already used his illusions to exclude the other people who had suffered the experiments from the boy's sight.
Theo smiled at him and said, "Boy, I'm Theo. Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. Now, I'll take you somewhere else, okay?"
The kid looked at Theo with a bit of suspicion, but his instincts told him that he could trust him. It was a strange feeling, but he decided to believe in his instincts and listen to what Theo said, "All right.
He nodded his head and started following Theo.
The boy was surprised by what he passed along the way. There were a lot of different things he'd never seen before, but he was even more intrigued by the number of people he saw nearby.
"Huh?" Soon his eyebrows came together, and the boy saw two familiar silhouettes. They were of the people in his memories that he saw a short time ago, but in reality, something didn't seem right to him. It didn't seem like such a short time, but he decided to put those thoughts aside and started running to them anyway.
He ran quickly towards these two specific people, they were a thin and slightly malnourished man and a woman who seemed to have aged a little, but still, his eyes couldn't fool him. He knew who they were, they were his dear, beloved parents!
"Daddy, Mommy!" He cried as he approached.
Seeing a young man running in their direction, they shouted out to him, "Son!" The couple quickly burst into tears as they finally met their son. The tears flowed down from all of their eyes like waterfalls.