Soul Shard Captor [BL] - Volume 1: Aris the Soother

Chapter 75 - Painful

As soon as Noah's life signs had stabilized, Fynn had given Noah's father, the city lord of Concordia, a call. Their family's spicy old ginger had immediately connected many different things together and issued his verdict – rest at home.

Since Noah was fully healed, there was no need to go to the hospital. Not only would he have more privacy and comfort at home, but he would also be safer and better cared for.

His son just needed to rest and recuperate. And what would happen if he was allowed to stay in the hospital? Forget the privacy issues, the noise, the people, the reporters crowding around the hospital, etcetera, what was the real deal-breaker was... wouldn't his baby son start soothing the whole bloody hospital as soon as he came about?!

Out of the question! Home! Ship him home right this instant!

...

One had to give props to Cordia daddy; he knew his son very well.

And thus, Fynn took a team of peacekeepers to safely escort unconscious Noah home. After Noah got tucked into his own bed, Fynn ran off to continue his investigation.

Knowing that everyone was safe and sound should have put Noah's mind at ease.

But it did not. Not at all.

In fact, instead of feeling relieved, a feeling of dread welled up in his chest.

Why?

The answer could be summed up with one word.

Levi.

"Blackie," Noah painfully swallowed.

"What?"

"In your memories... there are unnatural periods of silence and big black spots."

"Yea?" Blackie responded nonchalantly.

"Don't 'yea' me! Why do your memories have black spots?! Why is there no Levi?!"

This time, Blackie fell silent for a while.

When he finally spoke again, his response was dry, "He is censored out, ah. You are a valuable resource to the Bureau; thus, there are many protection methods in place to ensure your mental and emotional wellbeing. When transferring memories to you, be it my own or that of the original owner of your current identity, the memories aren't sent in their raw form but go through an automatic content filter."

Blackie paused, "I mean, who knows what kind of tragic thing the original owner of the memories went through. What if he was brutally raped? Receiving full memories of the traumatic experience would be in no way beneficial to you. It would be like you've personally experienced it too. Why would we unnecessarily subject our employees to what could be considered as mental and physical torture?"

Unable to take the suspense any longer, Noah snapped, "What are you trying to say? What happened to Levi?!"

"Technically... nothing. He wasn't injured and just needs some R&R to fully recuperate," Blackie coughed awkwardly.

"Then why censor him out?!" Noah spat through gritted teeth.

"...As I said, if memories I transfer to you contain bits that might be highly upsetting or painful to you, they are automatically censored out. Nothing happened to Levi... but, uh..."

Noah's patience reached its limits, "Enough talking in circles! Turn off the filter and transfer the entire thing!"

Blackie shut up. He hesitated briefly, but since the warning level of the censored content wasn't in the traumatizing range, he decided to just do as his silly host asked and send over the uncensored version.