1364 Proactive Klein (1/2)
After opening the ”door” to the Body of Heart and Mind, Klein carefully extracted the memories related to The Fool. He gathered them together and ”Grafted” them above the gray fog.
Following that, he saw the blonde-haired Audrey, who had a light white silk scarf covering her eyes, appear on the ancient stone steps. Step by step, she landed onto his mind island via the sea of collective subconscious.
After some hesitation, Klein no longer allowed his consciousness to stay high in the sky. He gave up the corresponding control and allowed them to return and fuse together.
If he didn't do that, he would maintain absolute rationality in the subsequent treatment, making him unable to be moved by all kinds of memories and lose the possibility of strengthening his humanity.
This meant that Audrey's treatment was destined to fail right from the start.
After arriving at the mind island that resembled a dream world using her spiritual intuition, Audrey stopped and spread her arms slightly.
She recalled her parents' love for her, the excitement she felt when she first became a Beyonder, and the joy she felt after helping others to change her emotions and emit corresponding fluctuations.
This was a method of awakening Gehrman Sparrow's memories related to his humanity. It was a Beyonder manifestation of the effects of ”empathy.”
Scenes that were worth cherishing, or those hiding deep within, flashed across Audrey's mind one after another. Beneath her feet, from the surface of the island that represented Klein's mind, firefly-like light points seeped out of the ”soil” and floated up.
Every point of light presented a different scene:
”A kid taking a stride forward with his short legs, receiving an ice-cream;
”A student secretly reading novels and comics under the cover of a textbook.”
”A teenager sitting in front of his computer and playing games with full focus. Hearing the sound of a key suddenly being inserted into a keyhole, he jumped up and performed a force shutdown on his computer. Rushing back to his room, happy that his actions weren't discovered, he had a bounce in his step. Going to the living room, he asked his mother for pocket money, before appearing beside his father to casually ask questions about his studies;
”A young adult and his companions pushing a bashful friend to the corridor, right up to the person he had a crush on. Then, turning around, he laughed loudly;
”A young adult with some hint of adolescence to him stealing a glance downstairs, watching a figure leave, but unable to open his mouth no matter what;
”An employee with a slightly protruding belly waving his hand impatiently when he returned home for the holidays. After telling his parents not to serve him food or set up blind dates for him, he sees his parents' white hair and loses himself in thought when he calmed down;
”A scholarly-looking man and his brother and sister moving out. When they saw the dirt and dust on each other's faces, they laughed;
”…”
Klein sat at the round table at the veranda, one hand holding his top hat and the other hanging in midair, as though he wanted to cover his face.
Two transparent drops of water slowly slid past the two sides of his nose bridge and dripped into the void.
Klein closed his eyes, his expression soft and pained.
In his mind island, Audrey seemed to have transformed into a whirlpool of emotions as she pulled together similar memories.
After the entire island was covered in firefly-like points of light, a faint gray fog emerged.
In the fog, there was a door of light that was dyed bluish-black. It was formed from illusory and brilliant spherical light.
The main body of each spherical light was composed of transparent, ringed, or starlight-like worms and insects. They embraced each other and intertwined like mythical creatures.
The door of light looked a little odd at first glance, but if one looked closely, they would discover that its surroundings were dark. It was as though it was wearing a hooded black robe.
Thus, on a whole, it looked like an unknown mysterious person hiding under a robe.
In the next second, a slippery, illusory tentacle appeared under the deep black robe of the mysterious person.
At that moment, although Audrey's consciousness couldn't see or hear anything, her spiritual intuition gave her a strong sense of danger. She had a feeling that a sea consisting of corruption was about to drown her.
No, this isn't an illusion! She believed that if things continued to develop like this, she would get infected with a severe mental illness, or even lose control and go crazy on the spot!
Audrey was just about to ”Placate” herself with all her might, weakening the corruption ahead of her when the firefly-like light dots floating above the island rapidly gathered. They illuminated the grayish-white fog, diluting the darkness around the strange door of light, making the tentacles covered in mysterious patterns shrink back.
This was also the reason why Klein could receive psychological treatment only after barely suppressing the awakening Celestial Worthy's consciousness.
This made Audrey sense the weakening of the danger, and she quickly did a Psychoanalysis. Then, she immediately ”Placated” the corruption, performing a true act of hypnosis.
After repeating it over and over again, Audrey took an unknown amount of time before she finally managed to obtain the initial results she expected.
She then left Gehrman Sparrow's mind island and returned to her body.
This treatment was very difficult, so she didn't use a ”Virtual Persona” and directly used her Body of Heart and Mind.
After sensing the end of the treatment, Klein raised his hand to wipe his face, allowing The Fool's memories ”Grafted” above the gray fog to return to his true body.
A few seconds later, Audrey removed the white silk scarf wrapped around her eyes and nose, snapping herself out of her self-hypnosis.
She looked at Mr. World opposite her and muttered to herself poignantly, ”Is this the mental problem brought by godhood?”
How terrifying…
Klein nodded slightly and said, ”Yes, every angel has one. The only difference is whether it's serious or very serious.”
”Saints have it too. Even Low- and Mid-Sequence Beyonders who aren't demigods will have it