That just wasn't him.

...

Soon, the trio strolled into Virus' presidential suite before the girls threw themselves on the couch haggardly. Today had been a very weary day for them.

"What now, Ai? Are we gonna go back to New York?" While remaining in that comfortable position, the golden beauty inquired. She was also careful not to call him 'master' in front of Amara.

"Not just yet. There's no rush. For now, I'm gonna meditate here and try to breakthrough." Replied Virus offhandedly, attracting Amara's undivided attention to his odd words.

'Meditate? What does he mean? Like a monk? Why would he do that?' Still, she simply listened without uttering anything back.

Not stopping there, however, Virus added, "But before that, I'll also impart upon you a suitable Spark Breathing Technique so you can initiate your path too."

"But… since trying to teach you the technique word by word would waste too much of our time, I'll just transmit the whole technique directly to you in a way you would be able to refer to it whenever you feel the need to."

"Ah… how exactly are you gonna do that, ma-Ai? I don't think that's possible anymore since… I mean…" she was surreptitiously referring to the fact that she could no longer receive data from Virus in a direct mind to mind connection.

From the second her consciousness had been moved into her own physical body, aka her own flesh and blood, communicating and transferring data between herself and her master had been practically impossible, thus when she heard Virus claiming he was going to transfer the technique to her personally, she didn't comprehend how that was possible.

Meanwhile, Amara had been extremely lost trying to make heads or tails of the conversation, 'What Spark Breathing Technique? What path? What are they even talking about?'

Notified Virus, "Oh, that's easy to solve."

Following that, taking an oddly small futuristic-looking device, a syringe, out of his pocket, he walked behind the golden beauty again before pressing it against the back of her neck. Now although a very thin needle had just sunk into the golden beauty's spinal cord, she felt no pain whatsoever.

"Ahhh, what are you doing to Bella!?" Caught off-guard by his abrupt course of action, Amara screamed in terror.

On the other hand, since the golden beauty had unwavering trust in her master, not even for a second had she doubted that Virus would do something which would result in harming her. No… even if he wanted to hurt her indeed, she would still gladly receive the damage for him, so, she just patiently and curiously waited for his clarification.

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A few seconds later, as the golden beauty was still wondering just exactly what had been injected into her spinal cord, weird text boxes started to show up in her line of sight.

LOADING ... 24%

LOADING ... 68%

LOADING ... 79%

LOADING ... 98%

LOAD COMPLETE!

[Communication Device Loaded to the Host.]

[Ding! The administrator has activated the 'Communication' feature…]

[Ding! The administrator has activated the 'Information-Shift' feature...]

[Other hidden features, LOCKED]

"Uh!" Yelped the golden beauty, totally caught off-guard by this turn of events.

Just as Virus was finished with his brief explanations, a new screen presented itself in front of the golden beauty.

『Awareness of the Dark Energy Within』〈Spark Breathing Technique Description: Mortal-Class Mid-Rank���A simple breathing technique for gaining awareness toward Internal Energy. In the Cultivation Multiverse of Qi, it was called 'Awareness of the Qi Within', but after some adjustments, it was changed to 'Awareness of the Dark Energy Within' breathing technique. With this breathing technique, it would take a normal human around '1.5 months' to gain awareness of his Internal Energy!〉

Together with that simple introduction, every information she needed to know to begin the process of breathing was displayed in front of her.

But it had to be emphasized that this type of 'Information-Shift' wasn't like directly transmitting the data into the brain where one would instantly memorize or even comprehend the full extent of information.

No, it was more like an open book before her eyes from which she could directly read and follow every step instructed. So one could even claim that it was more like a guide and a teacher.

"Awareness of the Dark Energy Within? A Mortal-class Mid-rank spark breathing technique? Why is it a Mid-rank and not something higher?" Questioned the golden beauty in some doubt.

"Easy, practicing a High-rank breathing technique like the [Spark Awareness] which is the one I practiced would be too hard for the current you since you would face a lot of difficulties trying to comprehend the mysteries within before following them accurately." He phrased before adding even further, "Don't look down on the Mid-rank though, I mean… to normal people, even practicing this one would be extremely arduous. To them, the Low-rank Spark Breathing Techniques are the most efficient ones."

"I'm sending the mid-rank to you only because you can still be considered extremely intelligent among human beings." Concluded Virus shortly.

Finally getting a grasp of the situation, the golden beauty nodded in understanding.

Besides the two of them, Amara who had been ridiculously muddled since the start of the conversation, at last, couldn't keep her curiosity under control and queried worriedly, "What are you two chattering about? And what was that thing you injected into Bella's neck? Is she okay? It wasn't anything dangerous, right?"

"Oh…" Facing her questions, the golden beauty didn't know how to respond. Instead, she just twiddled her thumbs while waiting for her master to come up with something random yet rational.