Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2055

At this point, Kai was completely impressed by Trevaris' ability to perceive malice.

Feeling more convinced than ever, he dragged Trevaris along to wander through the mall and told the latter to buy all sorts of things.

When Rhodes checked out at the cashier with Kai, Shannon, and Trevaris sat at the lounge, each holding a milkshake. They sipped slowly while waiting for Rhodes and Kai.

Trevaris clearly found milkshakes fascinating. He sat there hugging the cup tightly and slurped up the whipped cream with deep concentration while his eyes scanned the people walking by in the mall. Occasionally, his eyes would glimmer as if he were watching something especially interesting.

When Shannon asked what he was looking at, he pointed toward the passing shoppers and said, "People.

"Shannon, humans were interesting. A lot of them look totally normal on the surface. Some might be smiling, but deep down, they'll suddenly flash with malice."

Like a parent with a child, when the kid knocked over a stranger's phone on purpose, the parent might smile and apologize. Deep down, they secretly blamed the stranger for being petty and even wished the latter would fall down the stairs and break a leg.

Some were "best friends" who felt jealous of each other's lives and secretly reported each other out of spite.

The malice might be small or huge, carefully planned and in motion, or exist only in imaginations and never acted upon.

Some flashed for just a fleeting moment, while others were buried deep and rooted in the soul.

All these things were fragments of human nature.

Instead of dwelling further on good or bad thoughts, she simply went along with his excitement. "Yeah. I've never met anyone who can sense malice the way you do."

That was like a word of affirmation to Trevaris. He hugged his cup closer and took a big, satisfied slurp.

Shannon continued, "Just sensing the presence of malice is already a rare skill, but you can do more than that and see the specific malice someone's hiding. That, to me, is incredible.

"After all, only malice itself can truly detect the most detailed, primal form of malice in someone's heart."

Her words paused here. Then, she looked at him, and her voice was calm as she asked one word at a time, "Am I right, Vlad?"