Soul Devourer Chapter 2 Episode 27 — An Item That Blocks Impulses
After returning outside, I immediately headed to the Hunter Guild’s branch office and requested the purchase of materials and the appraisal of an item.
When I lined up fifty Redcap corpses at the designated location, the staff stared with their mouths hanging open in shock.
“P-Please wait a moment! The purchase price for fifty Redcaps and the Redcap Leader materials comes to 102 million yen.”
If you hunt this many, even a B-rank dungeon can net you over a hundred million. Not something you can do repeatedly, though.
“Next, the appraisal results. This item is called《Interdiction Choker》. Its first effect is that it blocks mental interference regardless of whether it originates from skills, weapons, or items.”
“Hm? Are there really things that interfere with the mind aside from those?”
“Yes, there are… Titles.”
“Titles… ah!”
There's one!〘Serial Killer〙!
That one heightens sensitivity to killing intent, and until you kill those who harbor killing intent toward you, the urge to slaughter cannot be suppressed.
In other words, with this choker, it becomes possible to block those murderous impulses and respond rationally.
This is an incredibly welcome item.
Still… the fact that he immediately answered ‘titles’ means the staff are aware of titles like〘Serial Killer〙.
Even if it was killing in self-defense, acquiring〘Serial Killer〙is proof that you’ve killed ten people.
Most hunters would probably hesitate to provide that kind of information themselves… but it’s probably safer to assume its existence is already known.
That said, it feels like no countermeasures are in place.
If hunters could act rationally, then even if they fought each other, apprehension would still be an option.
Hunters who secure resources and protect citizens from the threat of monsters are valuable assets.
Their loss should be minimized as much as possible… or so I think.
The guys from「Demon-fist Raiders」weren’t wearing anything like this either.
Well, they seemed pretty accustomed to killing people, so they probably thought there was no need to suppress their murderous impulses.
“Excuse me, but is this choker not something you obtain very often?”
“Even among B-rank dungeon clear rewards, it’s considered quite rare. As a general trend, clear rewards tend to be items related to the boss.”
“I see.”
If it’s obtainable from a high mid-tier dungeon like B-rank and is rare even among those rewards, then it must be difficult both for individual hunters to acquire and for the Hunter Guild to secure in large quantities.
If possible, I’d like to help, but… clearing B-rank dungeons isn’t that fun, and I have no intention of doing charity work.
In the end, being a hunter is about personal responsibility.
Still, the real problem is when ordinary civilians harbor killing intent. Being killed just for thinking something like that internally is way too harsh.
Honestly, I wish there were some kind of interference-blocking barrier that covered all of Japan.
Ah, but there’s no telling whether it would even work inside dungeons…
No good. Thinking about this is exhausting.
“Thank you very much.”
After thanking the staff, I headed home. On the way, I stopped by the maiko establishment I had visited with Matsumoto-san.
On the night the stampede occurred, everything was so urgent that we hadn’t settled the bill.
However, it seemed Matsumoto-san had already taken care of it, so I hurriedly contacted him and expressed my thanks.
When I returned to my business hotel, I lay down on the bed and enjoyed some adult time alone.
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E/N:
Instead of Interference Blocking Choker, that my MTL named it, Interdiction Choker sounded way better! Am I cooking, chat?!
So, Matsumoto paid the bill? Maybe he got scared shitless seeing Yuito's power and decided not to mess with our boy?
Also, adult time alone, huh… 😏
Stay tuned!
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