After leaving the hospital, Misumi Mikoto didn't return to UDI, since UDI's headquarters were in Musashi City, and the Eastern University Affiliated Hospital was inside Tokyo tropolis. By the ti she would have made it back, UDI would have already closed for the day.
So, after leaving the hospital, Misumi Mikoto chose to go straight ho instead.
Misumi Mikoto, of course, had her own family, but she didn't live with them, opting to rent an apartnt by herself.
It wasn't that Misumi Mikoto wasn't close to her family, but rather that her mother wasn't her birth mother—she was her aunt, and her biological mother had taken the entire family with her in a charcoal-burning suicide when she was little. Misumi Mikoto was the only one who survived, and she was adopted by her aunt's family.
It was precisely because of this experience that, even though her aunt's family was good to her, Misumi Mikoto moved out after becoming an adult. Partly because of her job, and partly because she was still troubled by the events of that ti.
However, this trouble was rely awkwardness she felt in the presence of her aunt; otherwise, it didn't affect the affection between the mbers of the family. Misumi Mikoto had long since co to regard her aunt's family as her own parents, and the only hurdle was the one in her heart.
Being very young at the ti, Misumi Mikoto couldn't understand why her mother would choose suicide for the whole family, especially since she had a younger brother two years her junior.
Over the years, she had always wanted to ask her mother why she had been so resolute in committing suicide with the entire family and why she deceived herself, who was only nine at the ti, into swallowing sleeping pills.
But with everyone dead for so many years, Misumi Mikoto knew that her desire to confront her mother was just her heart's own unwillingness to let go. How could there possibly be a way to get clear answers from the deceased? It was rely an obsession in her heart.
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But now, it seed there might be a way to address her obsession.
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Following a brochure on ditation Technique from Kyuuzai Ryousen, Misumi Mikoto spread out her yoga mat used for her yoga practice and rummaged through her cupboards to find a little pig-shaped incense burner for sumr mosquito repelling. She carefully inserted an incense stick given to her by Kyuuzai Ryousen, lit it, and placed it aside.
"Let see, first, I should adjust my breathing, clear my mind, discard all stray thoughts," Misumi Mikoto adjusted her state according to the content recorded in the brochure, crossing her legs in an effort to focus her attention.
"Smooth and gentle breathing, keeping oneself in a relaxed state...
all right, let's begin!" After reading the contents of the brochure, Misumi Mikoto understood the ditation Technique, and with her past experience in ditation during yoga practice, she quickly found her state, and her gradually calming spirit, along with the breath control dictated by the ditation Technique, kept her heartbeat and breathing at a very special frequency, forming a resonance.
The slowly burning incense emitted a particular scent, a specialty incense with a concentrating and calming effect that also amplified the senses of the soul, enabling a person to enter a state of ditation more easily.
But this type of incense was not easy to make, and it required quite a few precious materials. Even among the Transcendents, it was considered a rather expensive Cultivation Resource, not affordable for everyone.
If Misumi Mikoto hadn't been taken as a disciple by Chen Yu, she too wouldn't have enjoyed this privilege and would have, like most Transcendents, relied on her own abilities to adjust her state and enter ditation.
Under the influence of the incense, along with Misumi Mikoto's innate talent, she quickly entered a ditative state.
In many fantasy novels, ditation is described as magical and exaggerated: the protagonist can see Elental Energy during ditation, enter into a state of sudden enlightennt and so on, with one session of ditation surpassing an ordinary person's year of effort, actively attracting Elental Energy to form Magic Power Whirlpools, and causing various phenona...
But in reality, ditation isn't as exaggerated or mystical; although Elental Energy does exist in this world and ditation Techniques indeed attract the dispersed natural Elental Energy towards oneself, seeing and attracting Elental Energy into one's body to form Magic Power Whirlpools and causing various phenona...
unless you are the Child of the World with an entire world revolving around your will, all of that is impossible.
For Misumi Mikoto, what she felt after entering the ditative state was only that her senses seed to be amplified, a feeling that was indescribable but real. She could actually sense the Elental Energy in the surrounding space, albeit very sparse, with the only dense energy being from the electric wires in the walls of her apartnt.
However, all of this was still a very novel sensation for Misumi Mikoto, sothing she had neither felt nor seen before, which inevitably brought her a bit of excitent. She even tried to touch the Elental Energy that was roaming around her body.
Fortunately, Misumi Mikoto wasn't reckless; she clearly rembered the precautions listed in the booklet. She refrained from trying to touch the Elental Energy during her first ditation. According to the booklet, the first session was only about entering the state as much as possible, feeling the sensation of ditation, and expanding the range of her perception as far as she could.
With the aid of the burning incense, Misumi Mikoto's first ditation was greatly enhanced. Her perception gradually covered the apartnt she rented and even showed a tendency to penetrate the walls and expand outside. Still, Misumi Mikoto resisted the temptation to peer into her neighboring apartnts with her new senses.
Instead, she let her perception spread out from the balcony and the windows, reaching into the open air to enjoy the feeling of a more expansive space.
The feeling of seeing with perception was entirely different from that with the eyes. Although Misumi Mikoto's perception only extended to less than two ters from her balcony, a distance of around seven or eight ters from her person, what she saw was far more wondrous and distinct than anything she had seen with her eyes before, imrsing her deeply in the experience.
As the incense stick burned out, Misumi Mikoto felt a wave of fatigue wash over her, and her perception, which had expanded outwards, retracted like a tide going out, leaving her wistful. She had to end her first ditation, for the booklet on the ditation Technique clearly stated that one should ditate within their limits and stop upon feeling fatigued to avoid unnecessary damage to the soul.
After ending her first ditation, Misumi Mikoto excitedly flipped through the booklet on the ditation Technique, wondering if she really mastered a Spell, could she communicate with her mother who had passed away, and finally ask the questions she had longed to ask all those years ago?
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