God of Time System: Harem in the Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 297 Love And Hate

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She started acting friendly, as if she had known me for a long time. While normally she seems like a happy go lucky girl, she seems to have quite an amount of information with her and it would be pretty stupid to call her inexperienced. Other than that, she gets angry when the word 'God' is mentioned, as if she had a personal spite against them.

That is all I got to know about her at our first meeting with her. Though seemingly happy, it's just a thought, but she seemed to be carrying quite a burden with her. Just what kind of life is she living?

"Is it the place?"Aisha asked as we reached the department store near the gas station. The children had walked here by themselves slowly but surely. They looked quite tired, but they pulled themselves here, anyway. Aisha said that it would be better for them to fend for themselves. We can't spoon feed them everything.

As for Everi, she had multiple thoughts in her mind. 

After healing the kids, Aisha then took Everi to the side and talked a couple of things with her. While I heard Everi crying and shouting from a distance, there was not a single fight that ensued. In fact, when Aisha was done talking with her, Everi had been silent and pretty much empty as we walked from the town to here.

"Go in. Talk things with her,"Aisha spoke as she let Everi go inside while she looked at the Kids for a couple of seconds. 

"Hey Michael. How much money do you have with you?"Aisha asked without turning at me. Her eyes seemingly thought about it.

"A little enough to buy everything in the shop,"I said as I understood her intentions. She wanted to feed the children without creating a mess here. Hearing my words, she smiled a little as she spoke,

"Hey kids. Go in and get something to eat. Though you are not allowed to eat it until we pay for it."

"Okay, Miss Aisha!" the children shouted with happiness as they ran inside the shop. Everi, who was already inside, was now talking with her mother. The talk seemed to be really intense right now.

"Is it fine to leave Everi alone with Veriscene?"I asked Aisha and she nodded, "Let me tell you about the emotions of Love and Hate, Michael. Who knows where it might end up becoming useful to you.

Let's start with the basics. Love and hate are opposite to each other. Both increase your heart rate, while their effects are either to help you increase the affection of you towards a certain person or either to decrease it. No, it's more like it's the effect of increase or decrease in affection.

Now, let's add another line to it without going into the subtypes of love and hate. 

If you hate something, you cannot love it at the same time. While you might get confused with loving and hating the same person but essentially it's different. It goes a bit deeper than that.

Many times we love a habit of the person we are jealous of. That we cannot acquire it. And we end up hating that person for our own incapability.

Many times we hate the habit of the one we love, and we show anger towards the person we love. Not because we hate that person, but the habit. If you just quantify things you hate about that person, you will find that they can be put in numbers."

I looked at Everi, talking more and more with Veriscene. Everi broke in tears before Veriscene did too, both of them hugging each other. Meanwhile, Aisha continued,

"If you can find out what exactly you hate about someone or something, even yourself. It would be easier to love someone… or perhaps hate them. It is true on the opposite side too. If you find out exactly what you love about someone… you gain the capability to enhance that love or vanquish it completely.

In essence… if you can read a person, and to some extent understand what they love or hate about someone, you may or may not be able to control their relationships between them."

"Is that what you did? To enhance the love between them and reduce the hate?" I asked curiously as I observed the mother and daughter duo.

"What are you talking about? I just talked to her. Do you really think so bad of me?"she smirked as she looked at me before she began walking towards the shop. 

"She totally controlled their emotions, didn't she? Scary!! Where did you find that girl?"Irene, who was rather quiet up until now, started speaking as soon as Aisha was gone.

"Well… she fell out of the sky… kind of… And she is connected to all this reality bending mess as well,"I spoke as I looked at Irene, who understood that. Her eyes observed Aisha playing with the kids as she cuddled them and laughed along.

"Is she trustable?" Irene asked with a thoughtful look.

"Probably. All I know is that we should be careful of her but not doubt her too much either. She is kind, but she has too much going on… at least that's what I could feel from her. Her story seems as messed as ours too,"I spoke my true thoughts, while Irene nodded.

[Save the Dhampir!]

[Description: The Old Vampire, Veriscene, once fell in love with a human. It wasn't a happy story as the human got killed by the Stray Vampire Knight, Demigo, though he left a seed inside Veriscene, which later bloomed to become the Half Vampire Half Human, Dhampir, with the strange ability to manipulate dark matter. Fascinated by his ability, the Vampire Knight stole the kid from Veriscene, leaving her powerless as she just bit her lips and kept silent. But the fire to save her kid still lingers inside Veriscene.

Task: Save the daughter of Veriscene from Vampire Knight's clutches.

Rewards: Advanced Time Manipulation(Skill), +10 Skill Points, +10 Stat Points, +10,000 Exp]

[Quest: Save the Dhampir(Complete)!]

[+10 Skill Points Received!]

[+10 Stat Points Received!]

[+10,000 Exp Received!]

[New Skill Received: Advanced Time Manipulations!]

[You already have [Advanced Time Manipulation]. Using the [Skil Fusion] to combine the two skills!]

[Advanced Time manipulation(Rare)]

[Effects: Allows the user to increase or decrease the time of a process by reducing the molecular activity by as much times as the user wants (max 2000). Does not work on any macro movements

Cost: 0]

'The limit increased to 2000 times, huh?' I thought before I smiled a little.

[Are you sure you want to add [Advance Time Manipulation(Rare)] into [Multiple Copy]?]

[Yes!]

[Multiple Copy (Special)] 

[Allows the user to copy any 3 of the Skills in his arsenal. Can only copy Rare Skills and below. 

Currently Copied Skill: Advanced Time Manipulation(Rare)

Note: Once the user locks a particular skill to copy, he can't change the skill for another 12 hours.]

'This should give me some boost in increasing the firepower of my allies and friends,'I smiled as I looked at that skill before moving towards the mother and daughter duo, who seem to finally have reached a conclusion.

Though before I could take a step, a call stopped from making any move.

It was from Caroline.