Chapter 240: CHAPTER 240 – Memory manipulation.
"So? How did you do it?"
Alex asked Luna as he sat straight on the weight bench where he was doing bench presses on a moment ago.
Right now, only Alex and Luna are in the gym, and both of them are wearing gym wear while doing their daily exercise.
Luna had asked for some time alone as she wanted to talk to Alex, and when he asked what she wanted to talk about, she told him that she wanted to talk about her ability.
She wanted to explain how she manipulated the girls' memories.
This got Alex interested in an instant, and he agreed to Luna's request, he had something he wanted to talk about with her as well, but he could do that after she was done.
"Huh?"
Luna, who was drooling over Alex's divine physique, quickly wiped off her droll, stood up straight, and started stretching.
"Oh, wait a sec, let me complete this set."
Luna was not actually doing anything other than drooling as she stared at Alex's perfectly crafted body, but she at least needed to pretend, right?
"Ok, go on."
Alex was not oblivious to what Luna was doing, his perception showed her every move to him, but he didn't point it out.
After all, he was appreciating her curves as well.
Unlike before, Luna's curves were getting better.
Her breasts size had increased as her power grew, by now, she was larger than Alice.
She was older, so she had that mature air around her, making her much more appealing to any straight male.
Alex was really making the full use of their time alone, observing every nook and cray of her body, but again, just like the time with Clare, he didn't have any lustful thoughts.
All he was doing was appreciating a piece of art created by heaven.
"All right, I'm done."
Luna stood up and stretched her legs after she was done with one set of her crunches.
"Good."
Alex nodded his head, moved his eyes away from Luna's body, and looked into her eyes.
Luna failed to notice that as Alex's movements were quite fast.
"Here."
Alex waved his hand and the next second, a chair that was in the corner of the room slid toward Luna.
"Thank you."
Luna smiled before she sat on the chair.
"Now, about my ability, I need to release a mist from my body-"
Luna thought for a bit before she started to explain her ability, but Alex cut her words.
"I know how your ability works and what it does, what I want to know is how you use it to manipulate memories."
Alex shook his head as he told Luna what he wanted.
(Author Note: Guys, the theory below is something I came up with, so it might be wrong scientifically, but it was the best I could come up with.
This is pure fantasy and everything I write comes from my imagination, so if you find something that's not scientifically possible, just take it in as one of my bullshits.)
"Oh…"
Luna was a bit surprised by the fact that Alex already knew what her ability did, but she contributed it to one of his abilities and moved on.
"Do explain that, I'll have to tell you a little about how the human brain works."
Luna started her explanation, and Alex nodded his head.
Alex was always in for learning new things.
"The human brain is big, very big, in terms of space that stores the memories, but the main functioning part of the brain, that keeps it running is small.
And since it is small, it can only keep a small part of memories there, so anything that the main brain thinks of to have lower value is thrown in the larger storage, only to be recalled if needed later.
It judges them as unimpactful events, something that won't affect our daily life much if we don't have them running in our mind."
Luna paused a bit as she looked into Alex's eyes.
She had a serious expression as she explained these things to Alex, but inwardly Luna was celebrating the small time alone with Alex.
She was doing many things she used to dream about before.
She was sitting close to Alex, breathing the same air as him, she could smell his scent which was oddly refreshing, like a spring breeze.
All of this was a dream for her in the past.
'Hard work pays…'
She muttered inwardly.
All of her hard work in the last three months was not a waste as she could feel the distance between her and Alex shortening.
She knew that, now, she was 'someone' in Alex's life, and he wouldn't just walk away if she was in danger.Nôv(el)B\\jnn
"I see."
Alex nodded his head, gesturing for Luna to continue.
Luna, who saw that, nodded and then spoke.
"But what would happen if the brain was forced with memories that were more impactful than any other before?"
Luna questioned with curiosity.
She was curious as to how Alex would answer.
"It will push away the ones that it thought were impactful away from the main functioning brain."
Alex answered as he looked at Luna as if he was asking for her confirmation.
And Luna did just that.
"Yes, that's what it would do, and that is something I made use of when I 'manipulated their memories' as you say it."
Luna nodded her head, acknowledging Alex's answer.
"Oh?"
Alex curiously raised his brow.
"And how did you do that exactly?"
Alex questioned with the same interest.
"What I did was keep using my ability on them for hours before they were completely under my control, so much so like no one before, and then I ordered them to forget anything they could remember about their family."
Luna answered Alex's question, but Alex was quick to point out the fault in that process.
"But that would be temporary, the memories will come back after the effects of your abilities have died down."
He knew how strong her ability was and he also knew that the longer someone stayed in the compelling mist, the more Luna would be able to control them, but that would only work till her target was under the effect of the compelling mist.
"Yes, I know, and that's why, I used the time they were under my full control to plant new memories in their heads."
Luna knew the weaknesses of her abilities better than anyone else, so she knew the point that Alex mentioned before anyone else.
"Ohh…"
Alex nodded his head in realization.
"So, that's why you asked that question earlier…."
Alex muttered, and Luna nodded her head with a smile.
"Yes, I will just give them commands, planting fake memories in their minds, and although it won't do much in one day, after continuous practice, it would work wonders."
Luna concluded her explanation with that.
"Hm, so it's a long process….."
Alex muttered with a pondering look.
"Yes, that's the only problem."
Luna nodded her head with a sigh, it took her a year to get it done, after all, and a year is really long.
"It's not actually a problem, if you could do it instantly, then your ability would be called broken."
Alex just shrugged.
He did get some ideas to use his abilities, so he was fine with it.
"Un."
Luna nodded her head and then followed Alex with her eyes as he stood up from the weight bench and moved toward the pull-up bars.
"Let's complete our daily quota."
Alex spoke without looking back as jumped up a bit and held the bars.
"A-ah, yeah!"
Luna quickly broke out of her reverie and peeled her eyes away from Alex before she went ahead and started doing what she was supposed to do.
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