Chapter 104: Karma
Alexandre was quite surprised to see this karma notification!
First off, he hadn't previously known he could gain experience by killing a Hunter. That made him wonder exactly how the "levelling" system worked—was there some sort of energy transfer between Virus Z cells when one subject killed another? Of course, there was no way for him to answer that question just yet, but he was thinking about it more and more.
Regardless, this new information made Alexandre see Hunters in a completely new light: If a Hunter could gain power by killing his fellow Hunters, then the Black Zone, where Hunters had no accountability to anyone but themselves, was even more dangerous than he'd imagined.
Then there was this whole "karma" business. It struck Alexandre as very odd that he hadn't seen any mention of it in the academy encyclopedia, since it seemed like such an important detail.
On the other hand, if this information was kept hidden, then students wouldn't be aware of this incentive for killing each other. It was clear that the academy deeply frowned upon inter-student violence outside the fighting arena, so perhaps the karma system and its ties to murder was simply a taboo topic in the Hunter community in general.
At this point, Alexandre checked his character sheet.
╔═══════Aurora Nexus: Character═══════╕
╟─╼INFORMATION
║╰╼[Name]: Alexandre HautVille
║╰╼[True name]: Alexandre Goldberg *
║╰╼[Biology] Hunter