I made a mistake...
Well, because, considering that I am going to direct my nominal student to immediately fight a demon without any preparation. I have to make sure that no questions will be asked on the way.
Going outside, night is approaching, this is Demon Slayer world.
Those three may not trigger flags by themselves, but combining them surely will.
So I cheated by relying on my trusted blade.
Yup, I backstabbed my nominal student without any hesitation and cut off his consciousness and then stored it for a while, which resulted to him following me in a trance as if he was sleepwalking.
Then color me surprised as I returned his consciousness and he did not even question why he was suddenly in the middle of nowhere and immediately prepared for danger as soon as he noticed the danger signs.
Back to a corner, danger in sight, any signs is important.
Unnecessary signs might tire you down, but people without experience cannot immediately filter out unnecessary signs correctly before any immediate danger appears.
During immediate danger, you can now disregard any unnecessary signs, but watch out for any signs that may kill you. Common signs when you feel that you are about to die is those tingly feeling in the skin area facing the direction of the threat.
For example, you know that a knife may kill you with a wound deep enough to bleed you out.
That is why if you know that a knife is nearby and pointed towards your skin, you will feel something in that skin area where the knife is nearby or focus on the knife with your eyes.
This is because you know that that knife is dangerous enough to kill you, and that your body is sending out danger signals that you are at risk.
Not all danger signs will actually kill you, but ignoring one of them out of miscalculation and does actually kill you will leave you dying without even regretting that you ignore that sign.
Only experience will teach you which danger sign will actually kill you apart from the fake danger signs.
Back to my nominal student.
I am considering what actually happened to him to act like a person that already faced danger as he did not even considered things such as why he was suddenly in the middle of nowhere, panic about what to do and what not, that delays his decision-making ability.
You know, people stiffen in front of a wild bear encounter and stiffens as their body hesitates on a fight or flight choice or which kind of flight to execute. They may also sit down on the spot as if they already lost of hope of survival. The point is, unless specially trained or experienced, people cannot immediately make decisions in the face of danger. Which my nominal student is not.
And that is not what is important.
What is important, is what you would do in an unescapable danger with an impossible odds. Not actually impossible but what the people involved consider as impossible.
I was planning to see what would my nominal student do in such a case...
But a rather unseen circumstance came into play that is now making me wonder if I shot myself in the foot by cheating.
Why is this guy not hesitating?
Backtracking what I did...
1. I led him to a place where he will likely had a demon encounter.
2. By preventing any suspicions to show through slicing off his conscious for a while.
3. I stored his conscious in my storage(sheathe) in case his conscious did not return after being sliced off in order to serve as a back up of sorts.
4. We're here.
I succeeded in what I want but what happened after really escape my expectations.
1 and 4 is the least suspicious, with 2 and 3 attracting my attention.
In any case, my imagery succeeded with my slicing off of his conscious, so I sliced off according to my intention. slicing off his conscious to artificially make him enter a sleepwalking state. Which, I stress, as what really happened
But after I returned his conscious, something immediately changed from how he should be acting right now.
I mean, after falling for a simple misdirection from earlier then acting like a veteran now would surely pique anyone's suspicion.
So I looked into his soul and saw no changes which meant that no transmigration, reincarnation or other cliché development happened.
The problem or rather, the change could only occur during or after I returned his conscious.
Something was altered- no, something was removed during that process which lead to what happened to the nominal student.
Seeing that hesitation was the only thing I can't immediately "see" from him-
No, I can now see hesitation slowly, like a trickling water, entered his system. But the fear from the current danger he is in is suppressing the appearance and growth of such emotion.
Hm...
I see.
What a good study material. Or a research topic. OR AN INSIPIRATION?
Why do these words sound too much wrong?