Chaos Cycle: The Eye of Genesis

"Let's test out the orb shall we?" 

Shin nodded, and Elior showed how to use the orb. Elior infused mana into the orb and said, "I am a girl."

The orb turned black instantly.

"I have never spoken a word that is not true. Sarcasm aside." The orb turned entirely white then. "So for the positive fluctuations in the spirit, it would turn white while for the negative, its black. Got it?" 

Shin nodded. "Brother, you just said, you are a girl," he said, raising an eyebrow. "Surely, it is a lie."

"Of course, but did you buy it?" Elior smiled. "If you could not manipulate the other person with your lies, then you are not lying."

"It's kind of twisted philosophy," Shin said.

"It is," Elior agreed. He gave the orb to him, continuing, "You try as well."

Shin took the orb like a baby and found some new interesting toys. He infused mana into the orb before yelling, "Girls can't stop themselves from falling for me."

The orb turned black instantly, and Shin raised an eyebrow at Elior.

"Don't look at me. I'm not judging you." Elior smiled. "And remember, it is not a mirror of truth, it just reflects your spirit fluctuations."

Shin nodded and said whatever came into his mind. "I want to feel some boobs badly."

The orb turned white just as fast, and Shin pouted.

"The speed of the chance showed the eagerness of your spirit to that specific task," Elior added. 

"Alright, you have enough testing. NOw we will both connect our mana into the orb so that you know I am not doing anything fishy," Elior said and took the orb from him. He left it above the closed box and infused mana without touching it; Shin did the same. "You can ask me a few questions, but be sure I can choose to not answer as well."

"Alright," Shin said and sat straight in the chair. "Then tell me, what did you do to me? The men you asked me to find out?"

Elior sighed. "I give them what they deserve," he said. "These few men were working for a secret organization that runs very deep in the universe. They are deliberately hiding the dungeons in earth and even catalyzing the process of dungeon break in the earth."

Shin released a breath slowly. "How do you know all these?"

Ellior kept his silence for a second before saying, "Because I am the chosen one."

"Chosen one, what?"

"Next question," Elior said.

"Fine," Shin said and pondered, touching his chin. "Have you harmed any innocents?"

"Possible," Elior said, knitting his brows. Shin's brows arched immediately and his lips quivered. Elior continued, "I have never abused or killed any innocent, to my knowledge, but I fought a lot in high school and beat up a lot of common kids."

Shin sighed in relief. "You almost gave me a heart attack."

"Do you have any more questions?" Elior asked as all the important stuff was over.

Shin nodded, and his eyes narrowed again. "Have you killed any person?"

Elior released a breath. "What do you think?"

"I think you have not," Shin asked, and the orb turned dark slowly. it actually worked both ways, and now it was reflecting Shin's spirit

It was not that Shin did not know it, he just did not want to believe Elior was a killer.

"But you surely have not killed anyone innocent, right?"

"No, never," Elior said, though in his mind it was another thing. Even though he did not understand him clearly, he could tell there was not much between killing sinners or innocents.

Either way, you are a killer.

Once your arms tasted the blood for the first time, it doesn't matter if it was a sinner or an innocent; you are a killer—a sinner. And to a sinner, it is not difficult to cross the line and kill innocent people.

Even if it was accidentally, he never would like to do that. He sighed again.

"I think you got your answers," he said to Shin. Today turned out to be a very eventful day though he managed to got better at a few of the problematic tasks. Aanya was in a better state than he had assumed, though the trauma was far from gone; then his participation in the next trial was almost fixed and so was the trust of Shin in him. 

"No, I have a couple more," Shin said immediately. "But I can trust you now."

Elior did not need to look at the orb to see it white, though there was a very thin smoke of blackness in it. Well, Shin could not be blamed, after all, he had not come clean entirely. He held too many secrets that he himself was not aware of. Surely, he did not expect the blind trust now. 

"Brother, this is a very serious question," Shin said, locking eyes with him. "Tell me, what is your secret in attracting girls?"

Elior slapped his forehead. This was surely not the first time he heard this question from Shin. "I am telling you for the last time," Elior said, still infusing mana into the orb. "I have no secret ability to attract girls."

The Orb turned white, and Shin furrowed his brows. "That means you don't know all about your abilities," Shin said. "Fine, one last question. Brother, have you come up with your master plan to get me a girl?"

Elior laughed awkwardly and was about to stop the infusing of mana into the orb, but Shin caught his arm, glaringly.

"So you did not," Shin yelled with an ugly face. "All the miserable training I went through for nothing?"

"Come down, come down, it's not a big thing."

"For you, it's not. You can have all the women you want to have. Only the poor sidekick like me suffers."

"Stop being dramatic," Elior said. "You will really have someone special. Just gotta wait and work for it."

"YOu have said that long ago."

"DId I?" Elior said and gestured at the white orb. "Look, it's still the truth." 

"I don't truth, I don't want to wait, I want to have--" 

"Fine, I will do something within the tournament, but you got to promise to succeed in the tournament as well.. If you fail, I can not guarantee anything for you."