I Don't Run An Orphanage!

Chapter 67

Exploring Pain

So...do you guys remember when I said someone would be going with Yami on his little adventure...well...I changed my mind.

Let's clear something up, when I say something is going to happen take that less like a promise, and more as a suggestion.

Because there is no planner for this, I just come up with ideas and put them here. So that can sometimes lead to me changing things on the fly.

I had intended for Shinso to follow him, however, after thinking about it, I would rather Yami go on his own here.

Well at least at the start anyway.

Now, let's begin.

In the early hours of the day, is when Yami left the house.

It's not like he really needed to sneak out. Going into the forest was not really something special, and since no one was watching he could just...leave.

The only thing that would really stop any of the children from just leaving was the Seers...which Yami controlled so not much of an issue.

While Yami was sure his father would be worried if he noticed he was gone, Yami needed to see these things himself, by himself.

If he had gone with a supervisor, they likely would have restricted what Yami could see. And he didn't want that.

And so Yami went out into the city.

After a bit of walking, Yami reached the city streets and was immediately met with the feeling of negativity rushing into, coming from the people around him.

To explain Yami's vision, Yami would see aura's around people, with numerous different colors flowing around them, with the dominant emotion being the dominant color. He wasn't sure what all the colors meant exactly, but he'd figured a few things out. Red was anger, black was sadness, purple was fear and yellow was happiness. There were of course more colors, and the colors came in different shades, Yami didn't quite know what that meant.

These auras would always be clear to Yami. He could even see them through walls. The more intense a person's emotions, the higher the person's aura, some of them reaching above some of the buildings.

Which is what he was seeing right now. Pillars of negative emotions, blazing like huge fires above some of the smaller buildings.

Yami reasoned that if he wanted to see the suffering of the people firsthand, then he should probably head to the highest sources of negativity he could find.

And so he made his way towards the largest concentration of negativity that he could see from here.

But as he walked, he noticed something.

When he walked past the people on the sidewalk, they would look down at him. He would see the look in their eyes change, and their fear rise, before they walked slightly faster.

It didn't take a genius to figure out what was scaring them.

He walked past a plane of glass and took a look at his reflection.

His pale skin, his black nails, his sharp jagged teeth, his black sclera, and his beedy red pupils.

His form was frightening. He'd been told so numerous times. He'd even scared Eri a bit at first, although she'd gotten over it rather quickly.

But these people seemed far more fearful of him than Eri was. Which told him that this was something he'd just have to expect in the outside world.

Still, not much he could do about that, so Yami just continued to head towards the negativity.