Yes, emotional manipulation.
Only an honest child, Kashasha, would foolishly discuss this topic with his cheap guardian. It's long past the time for Kawakami Tsushinori to explore this, and it's boring to pierce the window paper.
"You can return the coffee to me if you don't want to drink it. It must be too bitter for you." The gentleman replied, "Why do you think so?"
According to his character, Kashasha did not return the coffee. He quietly looked at the dark liquid surface.
The steam rolled up, carrying heat, and condensed on his face, and the reflection of his pale face looked more like a white mask.
The car was driving smoothly, and Kawakami Ji could see the white mask in the thermos cup blinking at him. He counted the seconds in his mind, calculating the time for the emotion to brew... maybe it was a bit too long?
"I don't know." The gray-haired young man shook his head, "But if it weren't for you, I should just leave."
He knew very well that his tired, lost, and confused expression was what the gentleman wanted to see. Having already experienced it once without losing his memory, Kawakamiji knew his current state of mind.
"I pay extra attention to you. I am your boss and guardian. But emotional manipulation? I do want you to become what I expect, but it's not that far yet, Kashasha."
The gentleman stared at him closely,
"Even without my guidance, you will eventually become like Kashasha, and you will eventually slide into the abyss as a predator. You should be able to feel your talent, in the jungle law of killing, deception and the law of the jungle. Talent."
Indeed, talent. Kawakami thought casually, but the gentleman was changing the subject. His talent for being a gangster is not the same thing as the other party taking advantage of his amnesia to forcefully increase his favorability.
Moreover, the word talent sounds like it negates his efforts.
After losing his memory, Kashasha relied on the remaining muscle memory to become familiar with everything, and muscle memory was only achieved through countless trainings.
Even if his experience is washed away, Kawakami still knows that what he relies on is not talent, but hard work.
This can also be proven in reverse.
Experience and experience cannot be left to Kashasha after his amnesia. Therefore, Kashasha will not be able to possess the calm mentality honed in the face of strong winds and waves without any guidance. This directly leads to him having only one thing in front of that gentleman or even Belmod. The calculated share.
In other words, if you have never experienced social beatings, you don’t know how sinister people’s hearts are.
During the novice training, Kashasha was so easy to deceive...it was completely the kind of unfair thinking of "I will trust whoever treats me well".
For example, now, the gray-haired young man should have been deceived into lameness, and then foolishly regarded the remaining murder experience as his murderous talent, and thus followed the gentleman's routine and was led into the ditch.
It may take him being cheated a few times before he starts to gradually change. Although he has a long memory and grows quickly, the last time he was a novice, Kawakami Tsumugi, only took half a year to complete the perfect transformation from wrongdoer to trash.
Black history, black history...
Kawakami comforted himself. Kashasha's stupidity as a novice had nothing to do with me, Kawakami Tsumugi. I just had to act as a silly Kashasha. I was just playing, just playing, just playing...
Seeing that Kashasha remained silent, the gentleman continued: "Or do you need me to prove it?"
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In the end, it turned out to be him proving it to that gentleman.
Standing on the training platform, Tsumugi Kawakami thought expressionlessly, so Kashasha was really easy to deceive in his rookie stage, and after being coaxed back to the organization, everything was no longer up to him.
However, neither Kashasha, who has lost his memory, nor Kei Kawakami, who has recovered his memory, intend to leave the organization. The former may have nowhere to go, but as for the latter... there is no need to leave even if you are getting along with ease.
"In other words, in the next attack, I can come down from the stage. Will I be qualified to discuss leaving the organization with you?" Kashasha asked softly.
This is the way the gentleman thought of to fool Kashasha, the lame man, into a fight...
"Yes, as a guardian, I can take your thoughts into consideration to a certain extent; but as the organization's BOSS, I cannot be lenient to you. Moreover, before negotiating terms with me, you need to prove that even if you leave the organization , and have enough ability to survive.”
Kashasha's advantage was never physical skills. Kawakami was speechless and withdrew his attention. He assumed a standard fighting posture, but at first glance he looked like a rookie. Calmly and indifferently, he stared at the person coming from the other side.
It's a peripheral member that Kashasha doesn't know.
The duel that followed was long and bloody.
Like Kashasha in the novice stage, Tsumugi Kawakami refrained from using killing moves, so he was at a disadvantage in this fight without any surprise. He could feel the sharp pain from being hit in his ribs. Even if he successfully dodged the next move, he had lost the ability to fight back.
Then he was thrown to the ground.
He was supposed to have lost at this point, but the attacker showed a flaw and gave him another chance to get back on his feet. Kawakami Tsuna could feel that the attacker was not using all his strength, even though his punches hit the flesh and his moves were fierce. Many times, he was able to kill Kashasha...
But he didn't take action. Instead, he moved the gray-haired young man around repeatedly like a predator. After being choked for the third time, Kawakami once again experienced the feeling of being on the verge of death, but instead of fear, he calculated repeatedly——
The timing of onset of drug effects.
While in the car, the gentleman took advantage of Kashasha's inattention and injected him with an injection.
At that time, Kashasha was shivering from the cold and sleepy. He felt almost paralyzed. Moreover, he still subconsciously trusted his guardian, so he didn't pay attention. But Kawakamiji immediately knew what kind of trick that gentleman was up to.
Now, that tube of potion should take effect.
As a result, the gray-haired young man who had recovered from the suffocation felt the mania rising from the bottom of his heart, and his desire to resist was unprecedentedly high... But he had already exhausted his physical strength from the one-sided beating.
In the chaos, Kashasha could easily interpret the mania caused by the drug as the desire to survive.
And he did linger on the edge of death again and again...
He started to fight back.
There was a violent impact on the stomach, followed by knees and elbows. The gray-haired young man blocked the blow towards the face. He resisted in confusion, his movements haphazard. Before he was close to death again, Kashasha realized he had found his chance.
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He bit the other man's throat.
By this time, it had become instinct to not let go. At first, the gray-haired young man could not understand that the blood splashed on his face was blood, until his vision was covered in blood red. Something was pouring into his throat, which was nauseating, but he couldn't let go. Letting go would mean death——
The struggle against the batter weakened.
Kashasha was kneeling on the training platform, panting, his mouth full of blood, and his body was soaked with another warm, sticky liquid. In a daze, he thought he was still in the rain and snow. He still felt dizzy, and there were distorted ghost images floating in front of his eyes.
He has been in this "imprisonment" state for a long time. Faced with such a bloody scene again, Kashasha did not vomit.
In fact, he could only kneel on the ground, feeling his rapid and trembling breathing, and could not do any extra movement other than that.
There was an unhurried knocking sound, coming from far away.
The part of the gray-haired young man's body that belonged to Kawakami told him that the situation was still under control. The tapping sound was the cane, and the gentleman climbed slowly onto the training platform.
"It seems that you have made a choice and used your desire to survive." The gentleman said, "But such a narrow victory is meaningless."
It really didn't make any sense. Kawakami wanted to laugh, but he couldn't make any sound.
The fatigue finally hit him like a tide, the long and exhausting battles, tasks, the sleepiness of not sleeping for several days...and the gentleman's hand, gently pressing his carotid sinus.
Kashasha fainted.
