Paul's feelings changed, Ray could feel them changing,
because he's very accurate in understanding what other feel and he also, as
time passes, during his short life, since he's barely 18 at the moment, he kept
feeling new kinds of emotions and he understood that perceiving emotions inside
of yourself and even understanding what other feels it's like a 6th
sense, or it'd rather be more correct to say that it can be the 24thsense?
Humans have a lot of senses aside the 5 basic senses, in fact aside from sight,
touch, taste, smell, and hearing there's also proprioception, equilibrioception
thermoception, nociception and many more. But some people have also unique
senses like magnetoreception and tetrachromacy, that for example make an
individual aware of magnetic fields nearby and also able to see way more colors
than normal people (this in particular happens mostly to women, that's probably
why your mom finds your socks immediately, maybe even in the place that you
already looked for them, since women even if they don't have this condition on
average they perceive more colors way better than us, but they'll anyway
proceed to call you stupid if needed, just because you're born as something so
weird like… as a male).
Throughout all the senses everybody can agree that between
them, there are some senses that are more important than others, for example
almost everybody would agree that being blind is way worse than being deaf,
that's naturally because our sight it's way more important than our hearing
since it describes to us way better what happens in the world around us. But if
you'd have a hearing perception that'd describe to you the world way better
than your sight does, would you still prefer your sight? Well, probably yes
since sight not only describes the thing's shape but also their color, so it's
more linked to the production of stronger feeling inside of our brain. Now
imagine having a sense of yours that abruptly increases its perception like
imagine you sight improve drastically all of a sudden, how would the world
appear around you? Wouldn't you be happy about it? For example, a friend of
mine (I'm speaking as the author) has a sight that far surpasses that of normal
people, and I was wandering how did he feel to wield those eyes so greedily
without sharing his experience with us common mortals? Well stronger senses add
more complexity to an individual and that makes all of your feelings even
stronger, in both ways, bad and good feelings. But when we talk about Ray what
he can feel far surpasses the definition of bad and good, but also his
perception of other's feeling is better than the perception of most people over
their own emotions.
So Ray perceived something weird coming from Paul's mental
state it was like his brain was on an unstable balance that anyway kept him on
the a dull form of stoicism, basically he was always on a very neutral state of
mind, it 's strong belief brought his mood in the positive side, instead the
shame, the feeling of failure because of what happens around him bring him back
to a very neutral position. Ray at the
moment felt his mood sprinkle even if for a single moment because of Ray's
proposal, it looks like he is craving to get his hand dirty, and by him, I mean
his inner I, the one that can't lie even though his actions might reveal
something totally different over time. Paul as he felt a bit of excitement
says, "So we'll go through some hand to hand combat, old-style, like we're some
sort of alien cowboy heehee". Ray that has in mind something better answers
"Not exactly, I'd want to propose something else, I'd like to use some of the
weapons that I brought from heart. I have some interesting capsule for you,
I'll make the participant decide the weapon that they'll have to use but after
each time they turn, well, their weapons will change each time you come back to
the starting point, so you'll have to choice a lot of them. There's also
something else that you have to know, in fact even if the participant will
choice 4 weapon each, their opponent can still take a weapon chosen by you, so
be careful what you choice, and after
saying that I'm done"
The Mikes brothers started to almost climb over Ray's body
out of sheer curiosity, their eyes were shining making them look like a couple
of anime characters from a slice of life series. While such a pathetic scene
was taking place Bara's gaze fell over these two guys that from his point of
view were two incredible idiots making him think "Those imbeciles, they act so
childishly in front of weapons that if wielded by the right person would
destroy galaxies, they still didn't realize that they'll end up in a very bad
position very soon. In fact, the invitation that we got here is everything but
a vacation, or maybe it is for someone as crazy as Ray, but they are no
Ray-like individuals, and to be honest somebody like him has yet to show up in
front of me. Anyway, they'll almost certainly die too before we live this
place, I'm not even sure if this planet will still exist in a couple of hours.
In the meantime, I'll let Ray have fun with those guys, that's the only gift I
can make him, would it be a good goodbye gift? Hahaha hha hhh hhh". (it looks
like Bara has a silent laughter even in his own thoughts). Then Paul and Mike
say together, "what kind of weapon will we use? Are we using long range or
short ranged weapon? Where were they produced?" Ray trying to contain them says
"Guys we have to decide who will participate in the first race "I want to go
first!" "No, I will" the Mikes brother got a little too much excited and they
started to look like kids at the candy shop. Bara was happy because Ray was
having fun looking at those idiots but he was cringing too much so he had to
make it stop saying "I will go first" Ray nods since had no problem with that
and Paul says, "Mike you can go first, just for this time, but you owe me one!"
Bara looked at him with one of the worse facial expressions has ever made, Bara
asked to go first since he knew that make was interested in going after Ray
since they were respectively the strongest of each faction. But the fact that
he was trying to hide such an obvious thing without reason made Bara cringe
even more, Paul noticed that something was off, so he asked him "Are you ok
Bara?" "NO" and then he kept insisting "why not?" "NO" and again "is it me?"
"NO" until Bara couldn't hold it any longer "Are you taking me seriously?" "NOOO"
Bara answers yelling, getting his whole body near to him touching Paul's nose
with his chin, he got close to him very aggressively scaring Paul for a moment
but after a couple of seconds ha had once again recollected his composure.
After witnessing such a scene Mike thought "Oh my god, this guy looks like the
kind of guy that never expresses too much his opinion and never gets too angry
but when he does it's really over, I can't imagine what's behind Ray"S
character then". After a moment of an awkward silent Ray says loudly "Then IT'S
DECIDED. The first race will be Bara vs Mike! I suggest the spectators prepare
some alien corns and to enjoy the show!".
After things looked normal enough the Mikes brother forgot what just
happened and they said "Can we see the wea(pon now)" they wanted to continue
but Bara understanding that they'd act once again as cringe as ever, so he made
a fierce expression that they felt behind their shoulder, like if there was an
aura coming out of him, so they immediately kept quiet and they started to
slowly turn around.
Ray as a peaceful and shining existence in that very tense
situation says with a big smile on his face "Now I'll show you the weapons and
as good little boys that you are, I'd ask you to choice between some of the
options" Ray takes out of his pocket
some capsule as little as grains of rice "Are these senzu?" asks Bara after
getting back some of his humor after
what he just had to witness "Yes of course, eat one of those and I'll make the
capsule open your stomach after this I'll make people call me the Bara's
killer in short it could be Baraskill
or…" hearing this Bara says "hey, cross eyed mother fucker, don't get too
cocky" Bara was referring to the fact that Ray's left eye doesn't point to
where Ray is looking, because Ray has gone through a lot of surgeries that he
did on his own body and because of that he often has some kind of backlashes
even if lately nothing happened to him, since his body has almost reached an
inner balance, even if Ray keeps opening his own body and making modifications,
at first it was because he needed that
but as time passed it became something that he did to better his own body.
Ray chuckles after hearing Bara's joke then he decides to
get out the so much awaited weapons. There were so many kinds of them: axes,
pistols, swords, claymores, but also a set of nails, shields, and also a weird
coat that Bara notices and asks Ray about it "is this yours? Did you
accidentally put your own stuff down here?" Ray with a reassuring face says
"No, no hahaha, do not worry, those are all weapons that come from Berlin"
after saying this all of their faces were shocked since Berlin is the second city
in the universe for quality when talking about weapons. "oho ho" once again the
Mikes brother's eyes were shining but Ray that was now tried to says "Ok now
you'll have to take turns to choice
weapons but before that I'll ask you something" after saying this takes
from the ground a bunch of a sand-like substance and says, the one that guesses
how many grains of this thing I have in my hand will decide if they want to
start first or if they want to pick first one of the weapon" bara thinks about
what Ray proposed "both thing at first sight may seem very useful but in
reality both of them because of the rules that Ray just set up are very
useless, anyway maybe picking fist would be the best choice since it'd make you
influence the choice of the weapon of your enemy and take the lead if you have
a precise strategy." Then Ray asks, "So how many grains of this kind of sand do
I have in my hand?" Paul was a bit confused by that question because he thought
that it'd be impossible to confirm the exact number so he was going to complain
about this method. Mike though, doesn't give him time to do so and tries to
guess "I'd say… ninety thousand, yes, ninety." Then Ray turns to Bara to
receive his guess and he says "90,001", this number may seem totally casual and
in fact it partially is, but Bara thought that it'd be better to choice an
higher number since it was way more likely higher that the number of grains was
either was higher rather than lower, and by choosing Mike's number plus one,
he'd surely win if the number of grains was higher than 90,000, he thought,
actually, looking at Ray's hand that the number, considering the volume of the
grains in Ray's hand and their consistency, that make him guess their density
that the number would be around 190,000 but why don't take the safe path, why
should he have risked? There was no reason to do so. "Ray looks at them and
says "The number of grains in my hand is 207,000 so the winner it's Bara,
congratulations!" Paul, now that his brother Mike had just lost was about to complain
but Bara stops him immediately saying "I choice to start first"