Chapter 20: Madison! (3)
She returned to hugging him with her face nuzzled into the crook of his neck, but waved her hand in the general direction of the assistant and asked, "Who or what is that?"
"My soul space assistant," he answered absentmindedly.
He was still processing what she had just said. Her obsession with him was evident. The way she described wanting to be part of him, inside him, was equal parts enticing and disturbing. With the loss of his parents, then his adoptive parents, he had begun feeling like the lone survivor stranded on a desert island, so the idea of being inseparably connected to someone was enticing. But the way she described it, and the tone she used, left no doubt that she was obsessed with him, and he had never read any story, or heard about any real-life situation where it was beneficial to have a woman be that obsessed with you. The yandere archetype in anime was meant to be humorous, but it wasn't something he had ever wanted to experience in real life. The soul bond description said that the bond prevented the person from being able to harm him, but he wondered whose idea of harm it used, his or hers.
Looking back at the assistant, he asked, "The description says that the soul bond will prevent the bonded person from harming me. Who's definition of harm does it use? How does it actually work?"
Madison tense up when he mentioned "harm." He cared about her, but given her revelations, he couldn't afford to avoid hurting her feelings. He needed to know what kind of risk she posed to him, given the degree of obsession she had revealed. In the back of his mind, he wondered if she would resort to locking him in a room, or murdering the first girl to make eyes at him.
"Also, how does the soul bond prevent the bonded from revealing information about Genesis Heart? Are there any limits to what it can prevent?" He figured he should learn about this aspect as well.
"The soul bond fundamentally alters the bonded person's value system such that they will value your health, physical and emotional, above their own or that of anyone else. There is no separate logic or intelligence associated with the soul bond, so the bonded person's understanding of harm is the primary limiter. However, your own reaction to their actions will propagate down the link to the bonded person and can influence their behavior. So, if they are about to do something that they genuinely believe is innocuous but you know to be harmful, they will feel your knowledge of that potential harm manifest as a sudden sense of danger and will halt their potentially harmful action."
"As for your other question, all knowledge of Genesis Heart, including any events related to it, are sealed inside the bonded person's mind. They will be unable to do anything that could possibly reveal information about Genesis Heart no matter the circumstances, not even if you command it. This effect is a core defense mechanism of Genesis Heart designed to ensure your safety."
"So that's what that is," Madison said into his neck. "I felt something shift in my mind when the bond formed, but up until now, I just assumed it was my mind unclenching, letting go of my irrational fears. But now that I know about the value system changes, I can feel it. There are some things I did in the past that I could never do now because I know you would hate it."
Say what? What things? What did she do that he would hate?
"Madison?" he asked. "What did you do?"