'What charges apply to you when you heal me?', I asked Lianne.
I was currently exploring the alleyway I entered. I wanted to get a clear idea about the refugees that lived here.
The rats, the dacoits and the opportunists.
This was a place in the bright Reji city where darkness loomed and light didn't get a chance to seep in.
The canopy of buildings blocked out the sun.
It reeked of garbage and vomit.
And I was on guard duty.
Lianne answered, 'I need energy to do that task. When I first repaired James' body, I had come prepared. After you woke up, I started feeding on your life force.'
Doesn't that break the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
'You heal me but you also slowly kill me?'
'That is how it works. If your health reaches 0, I'll die too.'
So we shared a symbiotic relationship.
It doesn't seem like she constantly depletes my health since it was full when I last checked.
Lianne spoke again,' That is why you must always keep eating and replenish the energy stores inside your body. Being well fed will naturally enhance your emotional health too.'
Was she trying to look after me? It honestly made me giggle.
'Won't that make me fat?'
'Your metabolism is high, plus you must exercise and become stronger. Even if you say that the First Task Lord Destiny set was easy, you must have noticed that wasn't the case with Lady Beauty's Trial.'
I had completely forgotten about it. It had come so suddenly and at such a time, I hadn't thought much and just did what it asked me to.
When I had saved Enna, a message had come.
[-Integrated Trial of Beauty-
First Task:
Escort Enna Kimura back home without being seen by anyone and wait 12 hours.
Reward:???
Failure: Disqualification]
It was small and concise. I just had to hide Enna and take her back home.
Why did I have to do that? Again, I don't know.
I had dropped her home at around midnight so the task completion reward should be coming soon.
Her mother was working on some big project so she was home alone for a couple days.
No wonder she found the perfect opportunity to go skydiving.
It was as if fate was helping her die.
'I cleared it easily thanks to you Lianne. If you hadn't acted like my SONAR system, I would have probably been caught.'
'You do not have to be modest with me, Ray. It was all your skill. You managed to take advantage of all that confusion and escape from there with her.'
'We were lucky. Thankfully, Enna followed me obediently.'
A junction appeared while I was moving through the narrow path.
I suddenly got the smell of tobacco coming from around the corner.
I moved stealthily and looked for the source.
"AAAAHHH, do it harder!!"
Some people were having a little off-time fun.
I crouched and looked at the scene, hiding carefully behind the wall.
There was a woman with her breasts completely exposed. She had piercings on both her nipples and there was a dragon tattoo on her right buttock. She was wearing a black bunny outfit and black long heels.
A muscular tanned guy was holding her short black hair and doing her from the back.
There was another guy sitting by the corner, looking at them go at it like wild animals.
'They're doing it in the middle of the day?', Lianne asked me.
'Who knows? Maybe they partied all night and still haven't slept?', I tried to rack my brain for an explanation.
"Yes, yes, yes!!! I'm coming!!!", the girl screamed and collapsed onto the dusty road.
The guy slapped her butt cheeks and pulled up his pants before turning around.
The other guy who was sitting, immediately stood up when the sex ended.
The tanned guy approached the smiling voyeur, who was much shorter than him, and spoke,
"Thanks for waiting Alex. How's the effect? Are you enjoying it?"
"Yes...sir... It's great! This... new candy... that you gave me.... is far better than what I....what I...I usually have..."
"This candy is called Snuffball. It's quite good. Nobody who tried it from me has ever given me a bad review", the tanned guy smirked.
"Yes sir...I feel like my heart is pounding inside my stomach..."
I looked at the place where the shorter guy was sitting, there was a syringe and rubber tube lying there among broken glasses and cigarette butts.
'That drug is powerful. The fact that he is able to stand on his feet speaks alot', Lianne informed me.
The tanned guy put one arm over his dear customer.
"Good good. Also, weren't you telling me that you wanted some extra fun with a girl you liked?"
"Yes sir... there's someone, no two, no three girls I wanna fuck."
"So you want the special candy?"
"Yes sir!"
The befuddled guy took out a paper bag from his jacket and handed it over to his seller.
The seller checked its contents before smiling and handing him over a few pills wrapped in a transparent polythene like material.
"Slip one in, and she'll be a dead fish for 6 hours", the master explained to his lackey.
"Yes...sirrrr.... I will use this and fuck Stacy, I will, I will... eat Chen..."
His words were repulsive. He was disgusting to look at.
I had no reason to save the girls, but I also had no reason to let the girls get hurt.
If my inaction caused harm, wouldn't I be liable?
However, if I tried to stop him now, I'd just be putting myself in deeper shit. I had to come up with a plan and carefully act since I was already in a lot of trouble.
"And... I will also rape Enna!!"
'! ! !'
"That bitch... ignored me... even after I followed her... and... complimented her... all day!"
'Ray, your EH just plummeted by 5 points.'
"I will fuck her all night! ... I ...I will fuck them all!"
'Ray! Your sanity dropped by 1 point. You're dangerously close to losing it.'
"Good good", the tanned guy spoke again, " go and fuck them to your heart's content."
He patted the shorter guy's back a few times and then set him off.
'Ray, we should follow him.'
'Lianne,' I spoke to her in a very calm voice. There was no rage, no sorrow, just a simple monotone. 'Use Assistant's advice.'