abnabooks Chapter 240: Chapter 240- Qi or Ether
Chapter 240: Chapter 240- Qi or Ether
"Haha... Haa... It hurts," After writhing on the ground for more than 10 minutes, the man finally took a breath of relief as the sky emptied of firecrackers and the sounds subsided.
With the remaining feeling of brokenness slowly lifting, he gazed upwards in hope.
"It will not hurt after some time," boomed a voice, causing the man's eyes to tremble before he turned his head in the direction of the approaching footsteps. His mind was not fully aware, but the feeling rushing through him was horrifying.
"Wh-who?" Instinctively, his words let out as the terror slowly arose in his mind. The footsteps kept getting louder, approaching his lying body, which was completely covered in sweat and trembling due to the aftereffects of the seizure.
[Your dad >.<]
"Now, tell me from the start, what happened to make you end up here?" Ryuk, ignoring the system's voice, approached the trembling man. The man's eyes only caught sight of Ryuk's shoes before his lying body slowly began to levitate from the ground.
"Huh? No, who are you?!" The moment the man's eyes caught sight of the whole world turning upside down, specifically as his body started to levitate in the air due to some external force, his eyes widened at the sight of a black-robed figure, yet he couldn't focus on the details of the attire since he had just met the horror of his life—those two amber eyes.
".....it's a dream, yes it must be, hehe," he said, then suddenly losing his grip on reality. A smile crossed his face as he gazed into those eyes, blinking for a moment as time passed slowly, until tears began to well up in his eyes and his lips trembled uncontrollably. "It must be a dream!!"
"It has to be!" He cried out, his face deforming due to an inexplicable surge of emotions and pain, with visible tears and snot coming out of his nose. His eyes let out tears as he looked towards those amber eyes, "you can't be real?!"
It appeared as if he was losing touch with reality, not wanting to believe what his eyes were seeing right now.
The only thing remaining in him was simply rejection, his mind deluding him after getting influenced by those firecrackers.
"Indeed, I am an illusion, which will vanish once you utter the name of the one behind sending you here," Ryuk, seeing how the man had lost his mind to a large extent, tried to follow the root and make him utter the name of the person who was behind him.
Naturally, Ryuk was aware that the one behind all this could only be that woman who had barged into his room that day.
Given that she was somewhat related to Jenny, he guessed it was her.
But first, he needed to confirm his assumptions and second, he wanted to know the name of that woman.
"Hahaha, Yes, you are! Matriarch was wrong about you being alive!" The man forced a laugh, his eyes wide, as he tried to endure even more under his self-created illusion of not accepting reality, finding some semblance of peace in the harsh truth.
"Hahahaha, it was Yu Shao-Yan!—kughhh!" After the woman's name came out of the man's mouth, a hand instantly pierced his chest, pulling out his heart at a speed fast enough to prevent it from stopping beating.
[ Successfully Preserved.]
With the same speed the moment the system's voice came, the heart vanished from Ryuk's hand into a box which now materialized in the thin air.
Thud
The man's body plummeted to the ground with a resounding sound, his eyes wide open in terror yet a smile of madness etched on his face. His mouth agape in a chilling grin, he embraced his death with a twisted sense of revelry.
[Host, how are you going to know which family that woman belonged to?]
'... only if you were not useless,' Ryuk remembered how after he fell into a coma, the system reset all its data, causing it to forget the energy signatures and several connections that could have now made things easier.
[ It appears to be true that the person who speaks the most often tends to be the least respected. ]
'....' Ignoring the words of System Ryuk, he leaned down to pick up the pendant lying on the ground. It appeared to have some energy Qi within it, which seemed to be connecting with a particular wavelength. He lifted it and imbued it with his own energy.
It didn't work.
[Pfft]
'What was that?', Ryuk wondered why the pendant didn't work even after getting Ether.
[ It will only accept Qi ]
'...I will just learn it', Upon hearing System's clear tone conveying that he should command it to convert his Ether into Qi, Ryuk realized it would be better to start from scratch rather than having it perform the task.
DING!
[ Converting Ether into Qi --» output is 60 for an input of 100. ]