Chapter 25: Debauchery
With the girl bound and gagged behind the carriage and Anna off searching the the Legacy, he finally had a moment to think.
And it was a dangerous thought.
"Can I feel carnal pleasure?" he asked aloud, voice low.
The response came, though he never knew if it was from the system itself or the entity that resided behind it. Either way—it didn’t matter.
What he needed was an answer.
[You have no motivation, as all emotions have been stripped from you. However, sexual pleasure is not emotion—it is sensation. Lust, on the other hand, is an emotion. If you engage in intercourse, your body will respond physically. And as a result, the pleasure will become your greatest driving force. If that happens...]
"I’ll become a mindless pleasure addict," he muttered, piecing the rest together.
Now that was a problem.
If the physical craving outgrew his need for vengeance, he would lose focus. Lose purpose. He could see it already—hunting down women, not for blood, but to satisfy some growing need for variation. For novelty. And in his twisted, fading mind, he might even convince himself it was still revenge.
After all, wasn’t stealing their purity, their pride, a form of retribution?
But no—he shook his head.