8 – Fear

8 – Fear

Hisashi turned around looking at Reina who was still trembling in fear on the ground behind, thankfully he had managed to avoid any further harm to her both from the attackers and himself. Meanwhile Reina had managed to see a vague shimmering outline of him. Due to him spending so much time near her his increased spirit power had managed to stimulate hers and now that she had experienced an extreme fear of death she managed to acquire a very weak form of spiritual sight allowing her to see just a fraction of the spiritual world and it was only scaring her further.

Hisashi took a step towards her, but she grew even further terrified tears streaming down her face as she recoiled away from him and started crawling backwards in fear when he moved towards her. Finally her back hitting the wall stopping her from moving further away. His heart stopped for a moment causing him to hesitate.

"Reina" he tried to say to her gently, but it barely even sounded like what he was trying to say due to his current form not being anything like human and far larger in size creating an extremely low bass sound instead. It would have been hard enough to recognise as her name if she hadn't currently been scared out of her wits.

Despite being quite pained he turned around a moment later disappearing at the highest speed he could achieve leaving her alone, the only thing to remind her that this wasn't just some terrifying hallucination the 5 slumped bodies that were no longer breathing now that their souls had been consumed by Hisashi.Rêạd new chapters on no/v/e/lbin(.)com

After running halfway across town and slumping down in another deserted alley to hide himself it took him quite some time to finally calm himself down.

'System, what just happened? I was barely even in control there.' he asked.

[Answer: Despite best efforts by the system hollow physique will still have some influence on host, the host will still experience hunger for souls and increased sensitivity to negative emotions such as anger, grief, desire etc. System recommends host stay mindful of their emotional state to minimise such influence.]

[Answer: Not recommended, though host is powerful enough to confront the weaker hollow now if host comes across a stronger specimen injury and death become quite likely.]

'Ok, I'll keep it in mind. I need to get stronger faster though and the growth is really slowing down using just the animal spirits though.' he responds pensively. He can't keep the safe, but extremely slow path forever.

'What was that new skill I got as the mission reward?' he asks remembering he managed to complete the mission. He hadn't even though about it as the mission and reward was the last thing on his mind compared to his sister's safety.

[Answer: Spirit Power Concealment allows the user to completely eliminate the spirit power they passively emit. It would kind of be like stealth from any spirit power sensing ability or technology.]

'Isn't that exactly what I need to make sure I don't get caught by hollow nor Shinigami?' he was quite surprised.

[Answer: Correct, though the host still remains visible to individuals with high spirit power. Though system used stealth as an example this is not like an actual stealth skill. Host would need to gain some kind of camouflage skill to complement the Spirit Power Concealment skill to achieve something akin to true stealth.]

'No this is already a massive improvement. It will allow me to stay off soul society's radar, avoid being hunted by hollow and Shinigami while also enabling me to hunt other hollow and landing a sneak attack on them greatly increasing the odds of success compared to before. Though I've solved the speed issue, this huge body is still a massive pain when it comes to that aspect and this skill will help a lot in mitigating some of that.' he retorts to the system.

'Alright, so time to get back to hunting, but now while I'm on patrol and I come across what seems to be a weaker hollow I won't do everything I can to avoid it, but will consider engaging it if I'm in an advantageous position.' he decides.