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Freodelius Arishtalia, no, Freed…

He stood there in front of Mark with his friendly smile. Welcoming him in this dark world….

And he was greeted with silence…

Mark stared at him silently, without any expression or even any urge to reply.

His lips started to twitch and his smile started to crumble.

”Damn it! Can't you even follow the norm even for a short time? You should ask questions like where this place is or what is going on, right?”

Freed started to feel depressed. Mark was still staring at him blankly.

”You're too boring you know that.”

”Well, thank you.”

Mark finally replied.

”It's not a complement!”

”I know.”

Freed stared at Mark who was calmly looking at him.

”I give up.”

He said as he walked towards Mark and sat in front of him.

The two men stared at each other for some time without talking. In the end, it was still Freed who broke the silence.

”You're not going to ask me something? You have questions right?”

”I have a lot of questions but I don't know where should I start.”

Mark shrugged his shoulders.

Freed stared at him.

”If you're looking for something to start from, you better start working on you own emotions and showing it on your face genuinely. Really… Seeing you having a straight poker face since the start is reeaaallllly irritating.”

He said to Mark with all seriousness which made Mark start to touch his face.

”Hmm? Why isn't it working?”

Mark said with all confusion as he judged his current expression with his hands.

”Of course, it won't work.” Freed felt helpless facing the poor guy in front of him. ”As I said, we are in your subconscious right now and it will only show your genuine emotions on your face. You don't have the ability to show your fake expressions that you always do in here.”

Hearing that, Mark finally stopped touching his face revealing his blank look once more. That face made Freed sigh once more.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Freed knew the reason of this. This was the true face of Mark, a blank one without emotions. The expressions he always showed outside was all his practiced reflex and voluntary expressions in order to react to the circumstances around him. His smiles, his shock, his bitter expressions and the other expressions he showed outside were all fake. His true face was nothing but a blank slate.

The only times he showed his true expressions was when he was truly overwhelmed with a particular emotion and his expression at that time was truly different from his rehearsed ones. This was one of the reasons there were many times that he was reacting about something else less crucial when he had to react to something more important in front of him.

It was all due to him being an extraordinary Empath.

Since the time he started to absorb the emotions of others without rest and control, he started to confuse which emotion he was having. Both his emotions and the emotions of other people scrambled inside his head started to overwhelm his own. The manifestation of his emotions started to weaken and the expressions on his face started to stop showing. In order to cope with things, he started to practice his expressions in order to at least show a reaction to others when he needed to.

Now that Mark did not have a body to control, his real expressions were revealed bare. Rather, there was no expression on his face at all.

Freed sighed again.

”You should really work on that. Mei really liked it when you show your true smile.”

He said while looking at Mark with a bitter smile.

”You even know that huh. I don't know how she found about it though.”

Mark replied remembering how Mei's eyes lit up when his true expressions came out and how she looked sad when he showed his fake ones.

Finally, Mark looked straight at Freed.

”Just what are you anyway? I don't think that you're just some alter ego I created in my mind right? Well, I think, you're not someone to take over my body and replace me. Even though you took control of my body several times in the past and gave me a lot of head ache, you never harmed me intentionally and even saved me several times from death.”

Hearing that question, Freed finally smiled with excitement. It was as if he was waiting for it for a long time.

”Then, what do you think am I?”

”Probably, a transcendent consciousness or a foreign soul residing inside my body like a parasite-”

”HEY!” Freed shouted interrupting Mark and stood up. ”That's rude you know that?!”

Mark just shrugged Freed's retort and waited for his answer.

Seeing Mark stare at him blankly again, Freed felt as if his energy was draining faster. His emotions scattered in the non-existent floor.

”I should answer your question right?”

Freed asked weakly which Mark nodded to.