Chapter 240: Hothead, meet Idol
‘You two want me to do what?!’
‘My grandpa somehow reverse aged by like twenty years!’
=Logos is not wrong milord, but more importantly, this will help your cousin secure his engagement.=
‘How is me forcefully injecting Hurricroak into his head supposed to do that?!’
‘…Possestol?’
‘…Bah! Fine! Why do I feel this is gonna go sideways?’
=An incredibly jaded world view based on prior experience in a “mundane” world that honestly should have been abandoned by now?=
‘…’
*Click*
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‘Did… did I just get shot?!,’ Zhen Hai asked himself as he got blasted in the face by Zhen Liu’s weird looking toy gun, his perception of reality distorting.
Wait a minute…
‘What’s a gun?’
[Ooooh, so that’s the knowledge transference thingy that Frosttusk was talking about! Weird, I figured I would have more control over such things. My bad.~]
‘HEY, WHOA, WHAT THE FUCK?!,’ Zhen Hai exclaimed as his focus came back in full swing due to the shock of another clearly foreign voice in his head.
‘Wait a minute…where am I?!’
When Zhen Hai came to, he wasn’t in the parlor room of the Corrada estate anymore.
Instead, he found himself in a strange looking room, a large circular couch in front of him, massive fish tanks full of strange and exotic fish acting as decoration behind the chairs.
‘I’m in…a lounge…aquarium?’
[Bing-bong! Someone get this boy a cookie!,] a melodic voice chimed in. It was the same one that suddenly piped up and grabbed his attention from before.
‘What?! Huh? Where’d that come from?!,’ Zhen Hai said as he darted his head about. He could feel a presence in the room, which should have been the source, but the issue was he couldn’t detect where.
[Over here, big boy~ You got work on your ability to listen.~,] the voice sang as a spotlight appeared at a spot in the center of the circular couch.
Before his eyes, a lady with a neon blue bob cut haircut, wearing a strange white dress, manifested on the couch before him, already lounging in the spotlight.
Completing the look, the woman had a pair of round shades that Zhen Hai thought looked particularly…frog-like.
[Apo-logies~ I’ve never been inside someone else’s head so I was just looking around~,] the woman sang as she moved about in her seat like she was putting on a show.
(Un)fortunately, Zhen Hai was a bit too wound up to appreciate the performance, especially since she mentioned that this room was in his head!
‘Wait, this is the inside of my head? No, more important, who are you??’
[In order of your questions: Not completely, no~ The aquarium is at least yours, the longue is my doing,] she answered, [as for who I am…well, consider me a…muse, of sorts.]
‘A…muse? What is that?’
[Well my intrepid would-be hero, a muse is a spirity of art and inspiration, and with my inspirational blessing~ you’ll be able to save poor Telana Corrada from her predicament, earn her favor, and secure the girl of your dreams~,] the woman crooned before leaning forward, her head firmly in both of her hands.
[So what do you say?]
Zhen Hai wasn’t entirely sure if everything was happening in real time or not, but he was damn sure that this was… probably a good idea.
‘…what do I have to do?’
[Wonderful!,] the woman exclaimed as she suddenly leaped from her seat and stood before Zhen Hai, causing the latter to step back in shock.
[Now then, all you have to do, is…shake my hand,] the woman said as she extended a slender hand towards Zhen Hai.
Zhen Hai eyed the woman suspiciously. He was a hot head, not stupid, something about this seemed weird.
‘That’s it?’
[That’s it,] she repeated.
Welp, that was good enough for him.
Zhen Hai grabbed the woman’s offered hand to give it a hearty shake…but the moment his hand grabbed hers, something felt wrong.
‘Wow you got a strong gri-why is my hand tingling?’
[Oh that? Well…the knowledge I’m about to bestow upon you is a bit…dangerous if not done properly,] the woman said as the smile on her face started to look strange, [ I need to make sure you got the resolve in order to handle it.]
‘R-resolve?,’ Zhen Hai repeated as he felt the tingling in his hand increase, and began to travel up his arm. The way the woman said that word sounded strange to him. Like it was both profound and pointless at the same time.
[You see, you’re about to do a medical procedure that requires delivering a burst of over three thousand volts in about 0.001 seconds, which scaled up is about three million volts a second,] the woman said as her grip grew even tighter on Zhen Hai’s hand. At this point, Zhen Hai could swear he could smell ozone coming off of the mysterious woman.
[Now, in comparison to a lighting bolt, that amount of energy is nothing in terms of raw killing power…but the point of that power isn’t to kill, but to heal,] the woman said as her eyes began to glow with a weird blue power, [but one must understand lighting’s true power, before they can wield it.]
‘H-h-h-holy ffffffuck!,’ Zhen Hai cursed as the tingling in his body tripled in the time it took for her to say her piece.
Capping the experience off, a strange looking timer and measuring tool suddenly appeared behind the mysterious thunder woman.
The timer showed that there was twenty five seconds out of thirty left, while the measurement tool read: “15 million volts.”
Tick, tick.
Two seconds passed, the timer went down, and the counter went up to thirty million.
The tingling in Zhen Hai’s body doubled as well.
‘GAH!,’ he screamed as he took a knee.
[If it ain’t obvious by the timer and voltmeter, you have to last thirty seconds as the voltage increases,] Hurricroak explained, [Once it’s up, and has reached the level of a proper lighting bolt, you’ll be free and become something impossible.]
‘I-i-impossible?’
Hurricroak leaned in order to whisper into Zhen Hai’s ear.
[You’ll become the eye of the storm.]
Zhen Hai wasn’t sure what the hell this crazy lady was talking about…but something in his soul told him he should listen to her.
‘Is…is this what happened to grandfather,’ Zhen Hai thought as he felt even more electricity coursing through his veins.
The timer at this point read…twenty seconds.
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‘So…how long is this process gonna take?’
‘Uh…his time.’
=About a full minute of pain, tribulation and possibly empowerment.=
‘That’s needlessly ominous…what about our time?’
‘Wait, what the fuck?’
=A time dialation occurs for the possessed when they’re not you. It’s supposed to help the possessed get acclimated to a kaijin suddenly coming in and taking the reins, as it were.=
=But don’t worry, once Hurricroak or Zhen Hai finishes fixing Telana’s heart attack, Hurricroak will pop right out of him and he won’t be none the wiser… probably.=
‘Probably?
That last statement for Zhen Liu concerned.
‘What do you mean by altered?’
