"Pain?" Squire Juvier looked at Rui with disbelief. "You want to make pain the trigger to extreme starvation? Have you lost your goddamn mind?!"

"Trust me." Rui sighed. "I know what I'm doing."

Squire Juvier facepalmed himself as he shook his head. "Well, you're the one who's going to be responsible for it, so go for it. It's a crazy stupid idea that serves no purpose, but I've already warned you of that. My responsibility as a guide and aid ends there."

"Then let us begin the moment I am beset by starvation." Rui nodded. He went on to solidify details of the procedure with Squire Juvier. Matters such as the kinds of pain to be inflicted as well as the frequency of infliction of pain and the order.

Squire Juvier had never been asked to torture a Martial Apprentice in order to form a pain trigger. Therefore, he had absolutely no input to offer from his previous experience, he merely shrugged and accepted whatever Rui told him on the matter. He had long given up on trying to make sense of the strange and crazy Martial Apprentice.

It didn't take long, he was already quite hungry after the continuous hypnotized hallucinations that he had undergone in order to be able to experience and identify the idea Martial body type that would become the template for his body as a Martial Squire.

They shifted to an isolated training room for the training technique.

"It's time." Rui nodded, as his stomach growled and he was beset by famished hunger.

clapping swiftly

Juvier swiftly subjected Rui to a few quick whispers,

open, transparent, shapeable." He told

of the fact that it was subconscious, external influx of information could and did influence it, but only if it bypassed the conscious mind. The conscious mind served as

why, back on Earth, hypnosis didn't work if the subject didn't allow the hypnosis to be effective by allowing it to influence the mind by immersing one's

said for the hypnosis in

to the same degree as ordinary people when it came to

attention of the conscious

enough to bypass the

All he needed was the momentary misdirection that a gesture as simple as abrupt and loud clapping caused in order to exploit the momentary distraction to influence Rui's subconscious mind to induce his subconscious mind into a state where he would more easily

way he did the mental techniques of a Martial Apprentice. He opened

then."

Rui simply nodded wordlessly.

Squire Juvier sighed.

THWACK

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