Chapter 155, Volume 4: Evil Magic City Tokyo: 146: Heartache

The leader of the Rise Mora Group, Dr. Dogenzaka Elio, though he looked like a scrawny little shrimp and appeared young, was actually about the same age as Qi Xing.

In terms of IQ and potential, he had been a prominent figure back when he was in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo.

By the way, "Doctor" was just a self-proclaimed title; he hadn't actually earned any formal doctoral degree.

Years ago, when Elio was still in university, he had dated his first girlfriend during an intercollegiate mixer. It was his first time falling in love, and for a while, he thought he had finally found his other half.

But that night, as their relationship was about to take the next step, on the bed of a love hotel—he was dumped by his girlfriend.

Just as both of them were in the hotel, at the very moment he was full of anticipation, preparing to welcome "█ █ █," his girlfriend stared at his █ █, remained silent for a long time, and then whispered to him, "I'm sorry."

"Although I know Elio-kun is a top student from a prestigious university with a bright future, and you're very gentle and considerate, you don't commit domestic violence or abuse alcohol, so a guy like you is really rare…"

"But to have me handle that 'pocket-sized' '█ █ █' of yours… I still feel… I physically can't accept it. I'm sorry."

Just like that, Dogenzaka Elio's first love ended. From that moment on, he realized a cruel "truth":

"Men, even if you have money or a future, women will take the initiative to woo you," "But if you lack sexual appeal, even if you have a bright future, graduated from a top school, and are gentle and considerate!" "As long as you don't have that damn 'thing,' everything is futile! As long as you don't have a cock, women won't truly love you!"

…Regardless of whether this was truly the truth, in any case, from that night on, Dogenzaka Elio carved this "lesson" into his soul.

This genius from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering henceforth threw himself into the black technology field of cybernetic human augmentation! His goal was to create a super cyber-cock and then install it onto his own body! What a terrifying ambition!

…It was at that time that the Greed Demon first appeared before him. [What a genius concept, Mr. Dogenzaka!]

The gentle-mannered and refined-spoken Greed Demon did not hold back his praise and compliments for Elio, [I will provide you with the initial funding and research facilities. Just go ahead and develop that super cyber-cock you dream of, the one all of humanity desires!]

With the support of such an understanding benefactor, Dogenzaka Elio was naturally deeply moved. In just a few months, he successfully developed the Cyber Rotating Super-Particle Vibrating Cock.

The Greed Demon praised him highly once more… but after the praise, he revealed a somewhat worried expression: [However… is having just a cock really enough?]

[The field of sexual appeal is vast and profound; there is much more to it than just a cock.] [For example, there are many different sexual fetishes in the world. Not every woman likes a cock, and not every man likes using a cock; there are even women who want to grow a cock █ men. Shouldn't you consider various other possibilities?] [Furthermore, having a cock without power is probably not going to work either.]

This sentence struck the anxiety hidden deep within Elio's heart. That's right. Relying on a cock alone is not enough! Women might be obsessed with you because of your superior cock, but the strong can still easily take everything you have using power! A man without power, in the end, cannot possess anything!

Thus, Elio began to bury himself in researching human combat augmentation. This required a large number of experimental subjects. So, he began to widely recruit volunteers with all sorts of strange fetishes and twisted desires, making them his experimental subjects—anyway, what Tokyo lacked the least were losers from all over the world who "could not get what they sought."

More and more weirdos began to gather around Dr. Elio. They offered their bodies and loyalty, and he gave them power. Thus, a new organization was born—the Rise Mora Group, the filthiest and most chaotic dark organization in Tokyo, with the lowest barrier to entry, rejecting no one!

As long as you are willing to accept the Doctor's augmentation, you can gain power. As long as you become a weirdo, you can gain enough power to beat up police officers at will, and even toy with Magical Girls! Even if you only become the lowest-level grunt combatant, you still possess three times the combat power of an ordinary person! For outsiders who failed to chase their dreams in Tokyo, this was simply a business with no investment but high returns.

However—even as his subordinates grew in number, the organization's influence expanded, black technology achievements emerged one after another, and even the cyber-cock was upgraded to version 18.0, the anxiety in Dr. Elio's heart never diminished. The shadow left by his ex-girlfriend still burned within him, never extinguished.

Not enough. Not enough! Still not enough! I need a more powerful cock and augmented organs! I want to master every sexual technique! Develop and research more fetishes, and know them all like the back of my hand! My combat power is also not enough; I need more, only then can I protect what I have already attained!

…Until today. He transformed himself into a mechanical body, embedded a biochemical reactor within, and forced out a full 200,000 horsepower of Life Magnetic Field power! Although the technique behind this power was crude, it was already more dominant and stronger than most experts in the world! Even the leader of the Onmyoryo, the Demon-Repelling Succubus, would likely not be guaranteed victory if she fought him.

…However, Master Leipu, with just one damn punch, smashed his head flat! Because Qi Xing's power was only more dominant, stronger, and more condensed than Dr. Elio's! If the 200,000 horsepower of power forced out by the Doctor's mechanical body were an arrow, then Master Leipu's power was a bullet!

—The above was the memory information Qi Xing extracted after punching Dr. Elio's head flat, dragging him out of the crater, and prying open his large mechanical skull.

"…So your villain origin story, the reason for your revenge against society, is that your first girlfriend thought your dick was too small?" Honestly, Qi Xing was truly speechless.

His speechless—even disdainful—gaze mercilessly pierced Dr. Elio's self-esteem, causing the Doctor's soul to ache even more intensely! It was like returning to that shameful night—the night he was looked down upon by his girlfriend.

It wasn't mockery, but disappointment. It wasn't a furious scolding, but the conviction that "you are not good enough." —Now, Qi Xing's gaze was exactly that kind of gaze. Calm and cold, the gaze of "you are pathetic."

No! Don't look at me like that! "Damn it… damn it! Master Leipu!" So, in extreme anger and resentment, Dr. Elio finally cursed,

"Someone like you, an alpha male who is naturally in the winner's circle of sexual appeal! How could you understand the discrimination and pain we suffer because of our appearance and physique?!" "My brethren like me also have nowhere to vent our sexual needs!"

"And yet, you cruel winner, you actually snuck NTR doujinshi into the shelves of our base's pure-love faction, triggering infighting over fetishes! To use such a vicious method to destroy the bonds of my members!" "Kill me! But even if I die, I won't let you off! Damn social winner!"

…Although Dr. Elio cursed passionately, Qi Xing still looked at him with a cold gaze. Until he was tired of cursing, Qi Xing then calmly commented: "If you were truly a mutual aid group of marginalized people who formed yourselves because you were oppressed by mainstream society, then there might be something to talk about."

"You actually have the nerve to talk about bonds that can be broken by infighting caused by NTR doujinshi? I couldn't even imagine that such a retarded tactic would be so effective!" "You, who know best what it feels like to be isolated and discriminated against, yet take pleasure in bullying those weaker and different from you to vent your desires—I cannot spare you!"

Having said that, Qi Xing grabbed Dr. Elio's head and lifted him up. Dr. Elio's entire body had been augmented, with only his brain not yet fully mechanized. Theoretically, the brain itself has no pain sensation. But Master Leipu could make it feel pain.

"I am Osiris, the judge of all living beings!" "Your life has been recounted, your name has been inscribed," "Just as I judged souls in the past, today I shall dissect your heart to punish your sins!" He chanted loudly, invoking the divine words that drove the authority of [Dominator].

The next instant, while Qi Xing continued to hold Dr. Elio's head with his right hand, he actually reached his left hand—into his mechanically augmented chest. That left hand, transformed into a deity's, seemed to pierce through reality itself; his fingertips sank beneath the metal shell, deep into the machine body filled with circuitry!

"Eh? Aaaaaah?!" Dr. Elio was immediately terrified and screamed. He could feel that some power "not belonging to the physical world" was invading him—splat.

Qi Xing's hand slowly pulled something out from his chest. It wasn't an organ, not flesh, nor metal. It was a mass so blurry it was almost "abstract," a transparent heart emitting a dim, ghastly green light, twisting and struggling in Master Leipu's hand, emitting weak whimpering sounds, and it was actually still beating!

"What is this… no, impossible… I… I have augmented myself, I clearly have… no such thing…!" But Qi Xing had already slowly tightened his five fingers, squeezing Dr. Elio's heart-soul.

"Yaaaaaaah!" In an instant, he began to scream miserably! Ultimate pain! Language cannot describe what this pain felt like, because it did not resemble any other sensation.

It is easy to describe the feeling of a burn, because anyone who has learned to cook knows what it feels like when boiling water or oil flies out of a pot and lands on one's arm. But no one can describe the pain Dr. Elio was experiencing now. This was a pain that the body could not experience, because physical trauma would eventually sever nerve connections and block the sensation of pain.

But the feeling of having one's heart-soul crushed by a deity was a Platonic ideal of pain. Any other pain was merely an imperfect projection of it. If there were a limit to the sensation of pain, this was it!

"This is your 'heart'." Qi Xing declared, "Your obsessions, your sins… are all written on this thing."

Dr. Elio wanted to scream, but he was already in too much pain to make a sound. His pain circuits were still intact, showing that all data was normal, but the pain of the "soul," the unspeakable torment, transcended any torture in the physical sense. —Deities do not need torture devices.

Master Leipu squeezed that mass of "heart-soul" tightly. "Now, tell me how many subordinates you have left, and where they are hiding." "Tell me where the Greed Demon is hiding." "Tell me—what exactly are you preparing to do to Tokyo." Having said this, Qi Xing temporarily loosened his grip on the heart, waiting for Dr. Elio to answer.