The Human Giant



"Evi, what do you think of this place and Mr. Light?" 

Evi suddenly jumped as he looked at Yoze with surprise but realized he hadn't said anything. Just as Evi thought that he was going crazy, he heard Yoze's voice once again appear inside his head, and this time, Yoze glanced at him with a mischievous smile.

"Are you surprised? This is one of the powers of spiritual energy called spiritual speech. I don't use it too often since it previously had a problem of being audible to everyone, just like regular talking."

"But after experimenting and just being that good I figured out a way to use spiritual speech without others hearing it. Unfortunately, it seems to have a short range and makes it seem like I am whispering, so you are going to have to deal with it." Yoze whispered.

"Oh, so it is similar to telepathy. Yoze, does it work both ways?" Evi asked in his mind.

"..."

"I guess not. Damn, how do I learn this?" After hanging out with Yoze for the past few days, Evi felt as if his current knowledge of the world was nothing.

Not only were the demons, witches, immortals, and monsters that he thought were fake very much real. But Yoze was opening up his world to the prospect of helping him develop a more advanced path of martial arts and learn a new type of power called spiritual energy.

If it was anyone else, they would have doubted that what Yoze had said was true, but he didn't doubt it for a second. Not only was the proof right in front of his eyes, but he had a deep trust in his best friend.

"Evi, can you stop staring at Mr. Light? If you want to stare at someone, you have me here." Yoze's voice suddenly said in Evi's mind.

"Really? Okay, I might be staring." As much as Evi wanted to deny Yoze's claims, he did realize that he was staring at Mr. Light, who was walking at a normal pace.

From an outsider's point of view, it looked as if he was enthralled with Mr. Light or had a crush on him.

Evi shook his head to clear his thoughts and looked around the town to see that it felt like a ghost town. The streets were nearly empty, and all the shops that should have usually been full of products and people were all abandoned.

Fresh wooden planks and signs covered the doors and windows of the building, indicating that the previous owners had left hastily with no time to find someone to sell it to. As for the few people who remained in town and wandered the streets, they all looked at Mr. Light with dissatisfaction and fear.

Unfortunately, when those eyes move to Yoze and Evi, some of the suspicion is transferred to them, which causes Yoze and Evi to mentally sigh.

"Though this Mr. Light has only recently been placed as this town's mayor, his reputation is in the gutter. It is suspicious why the company that sent him here isn't doing more to persuade the people to stay."

"Even if it is just lip service, at the end of the day, it would make the people on the brink of leaving second guess their choice. It won't help much, but it is better than nothing." Yoze's eyes scanned the town for life and saw even more clearly than Evi how lifeless Jelly Town had become.

"A town that can hold a population of more than one thousand people is now left with a hundred. What makes this more depressing is that this number is inflated with the people Mr. Light and his company had brought into town."

"So the townspeople who have lived here are far below a hundred. From the looks of it, even the guards protecting the town are on the verge of leaving."

"This Mr. Light is a great client to improve both Evi and my skills of being scholars." Yoze smiled when he noticed that Mr. Light's back was subtly becoming more hunched as they walked through the town.

Seeing that Mr. Light wasn't immune to the depressing atmosphere of the ghost town, it was clear to Yoze and Evi that Mr. Light cared about the town's state. No matter how much he wanted to hide it or didn't want to care, the sight of something previously thriving suddenly dying because of your presence wasn't encouraging.

Eventually, they reached the town hall, which was covered in paint and harsh words that cursed Mr. Light and the company behind him for destroying the town. A deep frown appeared on Mr. Light's beautiful face as he tried his best to hide his anger.

"Those damn guards still haven't removed this filth! If I wasn't because I need them to guard this dumb town, I would have had their heads hung!" Mr. Light muttered to himself, seemingly unaware that Yoze and Evi could hear him clearly.

Evi tossed Yoze a concerned look and picked up his pace to stand next to Yoze. With the state of the town and from Mr. Light's unintentional words, it was beginning to be clear to them that not only was Jelly Town on the verge of dying, but it was becoming more dangerous.

The remaining townspeople and guards might be too attached to the town to abandon it, leaving it to the hands of an outsider. From a radical point of view, they might feel that it would be better to burn the town to the ground than let strangers have it.

Such actions would obviously lead to a path of destructive thoughts that would result in Mr. Light's death.

"Mr. Light is the son of the mining company's owner. So someone from the top might be the one preventing the company from assisting Mr. Light."

"All in hopes of having the townspeople kill Mr. Light!" Yoze's eyes shimmered with excitement as he felt Jelly Town was beginning to look like a better training ground for his plan than he thought.