Chapter 176: SSS-rank Hint Inquiry Innate Talent
[Kyle’s face had lost all color, especially when he realized that his innate talent was extracted and stolen by you.]
[To make matters worse, as soon as you discovered that his lover also had an SSS-rank Innate Talent, his expression turned to that of fear and despair.]
[You haven’t blocked their right to speak; they were previously silent since they knew screaming wouldn’t do anything and might even displease you.]
[However, your actions of stealing his innate talent and even now his girlfriend’s innate talent made Kyle lose all his rationality.]
[Like a pig squealing as if he was about to be slaughtered, Kyle pleaded, "Please! Not my girlfriend!"]
["You can do everything you want with me, please spare my girlfriend!"]
[Hearing Kyle’s words made your face grimace, and even Jade at the side was holding back her laughter, "Pftt!"]
[Glaring annoyingly at Jade, you shifted your gaze to Kyle and looked at him as if you were looking at unrecyclable trash, "Seriously? You made it sound like I’m about to screw your girlfriend in front of you and cuck you."]
["Raping others is beneath me, so if you all hand me your treasures and everything you have, I won’t have to torture you all badly and will even kindly give you a quick and painless death."]
["As for sparing your lives, you all aren’t newbies. Since you all had blood in your hands, you lot weren’t naive and self-centered enough to think that you couldn’t be killed, right?"]
["Since you dared to kill others, then expect that one day, someone stronger than you will kill you. And it just so happens that I’d be fulfilling the responsibilities of the stronger party."]
[Hearing your words, you didn’t know where Kyle got his courage as he suddenly retorted in anger, "You might be correct, but that doesn’t mean you are right!"]
["From your logic, if someone stronger than you kills you, you’re fine with it?"]
[You shook your head, "Of course I’m not fine with it, but that’s just how the world works. The time I had killed and caused a genocide, I already expected others stronger than me to be capable of doing that to me."]
[You paused for a while, and glared and looked down on Kyle, staring straight into his eyes, "Isn’t the purpose of us Train Conductors becoming stronger just to escape such a fate?"]
["We disregarded the lives of station world natives, killed them as we pleased just for the sake of our interests, and plundered to our heart’s content."]
["All of that just to become strong enough to not face such demise. As we all know, weakness is the greatest sin one can have."]
["And you lot are truly sinful~!"]
[After saying that much, you no longer bothered with Kyle and used your third World Order to take his girlfriend’s innate talent.]
[As you had stated beforehand, the innate talent of Kyle’s girlfriend was an SSS-rank innate talent. You had coveted it due to wanting to give it to Jade.]
[It was none other than an information-type SSS-rank innate talent called "Hint Inquiry".]
[Its effects were quite straightforward.]
[The user would have to pick a target to use Hint Inquiry on. After a target was chosen, the user will receive a hint notification that only they could see.]
[The hint notification would display information related to the target. And the more it was used repeatedly on the same target, the more related information would be displayed by the hint notification.]
[It might work similarly to your Hint Prompt (Gold) talent, but it was the weaker and inferior version.]
[From what you could estimate, SSS-rank Hint Inquiry was only equivalent to an Orange-grade Innate Talent.]
[Unlike Hint Prompt (Gold), using SSS-rank Hint Inquiry would cost energy. Not only that, it couldn’t be used rapidly, and it has a cooldown of one minute.]
[If Hint Inquiry was used before the one-minute cooldown ended, the energy cost for using it would keep doubling, and the energy cost would only reset after the cooldown ended.]
[Although you had an SS-rank Innate Talent that was similar to it, which you had preordered before, you naturally wanted to give Jade the better version, so that SS-rank innate talent could be given to Scarlet instead.]
[That SS-rank Innate Talent was possessed by one of your debtors, and you were just waiting for him to be unable to pay the debt, causing his innate talent to be handed over to you as collateral.]
[To Jade’s luck, she didn’t have to wait that long and could even get an SSS-rank innate talent instead.]
[After extracting the innate talent of Kyle’s girlfriend and turning it into an innate talent crystal, you tossed it to Jade and said, "It’s yours. You can use it now or later."]
[After Jade received the SSS-rank Hint Inquiry innate talent crystal, she immediately hugged you and kissed your cheek.]
["Muah~! Thanks, darling!"]
[Since there were still other people nearby, Jade restrained herself.]
[You and she didn’t hesitate to use the innate talent crystals you both just acquired.]
[After using the SSS-rank innate talent crystals, you successfully have the SSS-rank Future Diary innate talent, while Jade had acquired the SSS-rank Hint Inquiry innate talent!]
[In other words, Jade wouldn’t have to keep relying on your Hint Prompt talent in most cases and could use her innate talent instead.]
[After obtaining Kyle and his girlfriend’s innate talents, you shifted your gaze back at them and coerced them, "As you can see, I’ve already stolen your soul-bound weapons and innate talents."]
["Now, all I need left is the items in your item inventory. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Either you hand them all to me, or I will torture you all until you do so."]
["And don’t think of fooling me. I have my means of checking your item inventory contents, so I know whether you all gave your items or not."]
[Hearing your words, the expressions of the seven Train Conductors undoubtedly became solemn.]
[They knew that even if they listened to you, you wouldn’t be kind enough to spare their lives.]