Shadow Monarch: Heroines Could Hear My Thoughts?!

Chapter 91- I Must Punish This Stomach

Rin's aura suddenly exploded violently and spread across the whole training ground. The explosion was akin to a compact bomb of pure mana detonated and its effect swallowed everything around it.

​ Emilia halted for a moment as she witnessed the sight of Rin's red aura totally going haywire. Even though she knew that he could not succeed anytime soon, she had never expected him to actually try and fight against something as strong as the world's mana.

What Rin did now was akin to a clash with the mana of nature. She didn't know what happened that led to this but she was certain that if things continued like this, Rin will end up completely crippled or even dead.

The world's mana wasn't something that anyone should dare to face or oppose. It's the source of life and the first element that created Divine Sapphire, its power and authority were absolute.

Without hesitation, Emilia dashed toward Rin as fast as she could and extended her arm toward him.

"Ice haven!"

Instantly, the whole place was dumped into a freezing storm of snow and ice. The ground froze and the temperature dropped drastically. Emilia had used her ability which was ice.

Ice was an element that branched from water and became its stand-alone power. Ice is a very strong and lethal element that was quite rare to find in awakeners. Emilia was one of the lucky few that were able to be born with that element.

*Swish*

The ice quickly spread around and approached Rin. But, the sheer power of his aura crushed the ice that approached it.

'This kid… Tsk!' Clicking her tongue, Emilia extended her second arm and increased the intensity of the ice that attacked Rin. Even though she didn't even need to use 10% of her powers, she was still impressed that Rin was able to make her use that much strength.

Luckily, the ice was able to quickly overwhelm Rin's chaotic mana and soon engulfed his body and restrained him.

The mana around him was also held in place, both of them tried to resist the shackles but ended up failing miserably.

Rin's blank eyes didn't regain their lights.

'He still didn't regain his consciousness?'

Without thinking much, Emilia approached him and with her right hand, she slapped Rin a few times. The slaps weren't strong but powerful enough to wake him up from this weird state he was in.

"Wake up, Rin." She said.

"H-Huh?" Rin seemingly sensing Emilia finally seemed to regain his sanity, looked at Emilia with a dazed look.

"W-What happened?" He asked with a confused look.

"You almost killed yourself, that's what happened."

Rin shook his head and looked at the previous notifications that appeared. Instantly, his eyes widened in shock. He had no idea when, how or why but the berserk skill activated itself alone without his control and controlled his body again.

'My emotions affected the skill? Why is that even a thing, system?' He asked.

[Your state of mind was on the brink of collapsing so the skill was activated to stop you from failing the camouflage.]

'What if I died?'

[You clearly read the description of the skill, host. The skill doesn't care whether you die or not, but whether you achieve your goal or not.]

Rin quickly opened the skill section and checked the berserker skill's description again. His eyes then widened at the realization.

*[Berserk]

[Rank: G-Rank]

[Level: 3]

[Anger is a double-edged weapon. It can be the downfall of a human into craziness or the reason for his rise to the peak. The Berserker is a warrior who dances on that thread of insanity and omnipotence for the sake of beating his opponent.

*Activating this skill will increase all the hosts' stats by 1 rank-up. But, in return, the host will lose 40% of his sanity and drown in anger. The skill can stay activated as long as the host has mana.]

He finally started to understand the meaning of those words more or less. At first, he ignored that description as it sounded too complicated and nonsensical for him. But, now that he experienced firsthand what that skill can do, those words now had a different meaning.

'Can I get rid of this skill? It's absurd how dangerous this skill is.'

[You can't delete skills, host. Even I can't do that.]

'Goddamit.'

Rin was really frustrated with this weird skill that he got randomly from a giant deer in a G-Rank dungeon. He thought that it was akin to a boost in his strength that only cost him 40% of his sanity. Yet, it ended up completely controlling him and using his body recklessly in fights and deadly situations.

"Are you fine?" Emilia asked.

"Ah! Yes. I didn't sustain any injuries."

However, even though he answered her positively, Emilia still had a grimace on her face. She kept looking at Rin for a long time as if she was trying to pry him open with her eyes.

After that, she closed her eyes and sighed.

"Listen, Rin. I do get that you have your own secrets that you want to hide and I can see that what happened was one of those secrets. But, what happened now could've easily cost you your life. It's not a laughing matter that you tried to forcefully mend the world's mana to your will. Do you think that's a good idea? Are you really that eager to die, huh?"

"I… I was close to camouflaging my mana so I grew frustrated when I wasn't able to take the last step and things happened."

"Things happened? Sigh, you are really something, aren't you?" Emilia pinched the top of her nose as she shook her head slowly.

"Listen here, boy. Do NOT repeat this reckless behavior of yours again. I don't mind your eagerness to improve as quickly as possible, keep that trait intact. But, eagerness and recklessness are two different things and you clearly were using the latter to dig your own grave."

"I understand."

"You better do or your training will end way sooner than you think."

Emilia was very angry at that moment that she even questioned herself. Was she really that frustrated because of this? What if he died? She wouldn't lose anything, would she?

'What's wrong with me? I shouldn't lose my composure like this.' Taking a deep breath, she released Rin from the ice prison. Then, with a mere swing of her arm, she melted all the ice that she created in the training ground.

"Rest for some time. We will continue once you are ready."

Rin nodded his head and sat down before he pulled out something from his inventory. Since most people here use things like spatial rings, he can easily find an excuse for this inventory of his.

In his hand was a small box the size of his two hands. Emilia's nose caught the smell that came from the box and her interest peaked.

"Time for lunch," Rin murmured with a smile on his face.

He had prepared this lunch box before coming here just in case he got hungry during the training. One of Rin's favorite hobbies, when he was in his old world, was cooking food. He doesn't want to brag, but Rin was certain that he was a very good cook, even better than his mother.

He learned many delicious recipes and created many dishes. The memory of his family trying his cooking and praising him is a dear memory to his heart. But, since he came to Divine Sapphire, he wasn't able to find time to cook food.

Then, he quickly started eating, he could feel his empty stomach screaming with happiness when he gave it some really well-deserved food.

As he ate, he felt a gaze poring into his back. Looking back, he could see Emilia gazing at him… Or to be more precise, at his lunch box.

But, the moment she caught him looking back at her, she averted her eyes quickly.

"Mm, master? Perhaps, you want some?" He asked.

"No, I ate before coming her-"

*Growl*

Before finishing her words, her stomach made a cute sound. Emilia's face frowned hard as she tried to feign ignorance and hope that Rin didn't hear that shameful sound.

'So she was indeed hungry. How disrespectful of me to not share my food with her.' Rin thought in his head.

Then, he started to quickly create two equal parts intending to give one of them to Emilia.

"No, there is no need for you to-"

*Growl*

'If my stomach was a person, I would've slit their throat.' She thought in her head.

"Don't be hesitant, master. I would be more than glad to share. There is plenty for two people."

"But…"

"Here, try it and give me your honest opinion."

Giving her a part of the lunch box, Emilia could only take it with an awkward cough. She had never felt this ashamed of herself ever before.

'I must punish this stomach… after eating some food.'

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