The Martial Unity

"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.

sighed, before suddenly clapping swiftly before Rui's face,

subjected Rui to a few quick whispers, before slowly edging back

transparent, shapeable." He

indirect manipulation of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind was normally to external information that the mind processed by virtue 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 a guard between the external influx of

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 self into the hypnotic treatment. It

be said for the hypnosis in Martial Art of

limited to the same degree as ordinary

the attention of the conscious mind before proceeding to hypnotize the subconscious mind swiftly

would engage in highly stealthy and subtle manipulation that was sneaky enough to bypass the recognition of the conscious

caused in order to exploit the momentary distraction to influence Rui's subconscious

way he did the mental techniques of a Martial Apprentice. He opened his eyes once Squire Juvier had finished. His eyes were different, they were blank

soon then." Squire Juvier

Rui simply nodded wordlessly.

Squire Juvier sighed.

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