Heal, then fight, wake him up after he faints, and infect him.
After repeating this process, there was still no progress.
But these Samurai had absolutely submitted.
Miki would not mistake this point.
So, is it an uncontrollable subconscious mind that still harbors resistance?
In this situation, humans cannot control the activities deep within their psyche on their own.
Continuing would be meaningless.
Miki stopped Ryoma and Shikuro's beating.
She looked at Yui beside her and beckoned, "Come here."
Yui walked up to Miki and looked at her.
Touching Yui's head, Miki said, "Don't resist later."
"Resist?" Yui asked, puzzled, "Resist what?"
"You must absolutely obey any command I give," Miki said, "Something like that."
Yui nodded and timidly asked, "Then what should I do later?"
"Just follow your feelings," Miki said, and began the infection.
After a while, Miki stopped and looked at Yui in silence.
Yui looked at Miki and asked, "Is it over?"
She hadn't held out hope, but…
It succeeded.
This child had become an Insect under her control.
"Do you feel anything strange?" Miki asked.
"Strange feeling?" Yui said, "No, I just feel like you've become even more…"
Miki's thought moved, stopping her from continuing.
Yui closed her mouth.
Is that so?
The person herself didn't feel anything special, and her personality seemed unaffected.
"Can you hear me?" Miki asked, not orally, but deep within her mind.
After looking around in confusion, Yui looked at Miki and nodded.
"No need to speak, just think it in your mind."
Miki was browsing through the child's thoughts, and as her consciousness deepened, Yui's memories tumbled before Miki's eyes.
Unlike Insect Sister, Insect Sister's mind was a blank slate without memories.
When she was reborn, her mind had already been formatted.
After Yui nodded, she tried to communicate with Miki, and soon began a conversation with Miki in her mind.
And as Miki browsed, within Yui's memories, Miki found what seemed to be the reason for her success.
This child deeply admired Miki, and her heart held an unreserved, blind trust in Miki.
Commonly known as a fanatic.
Is that so, Miki withdrew from Yui's memories.
She extended her hand, and purple Parasitic Micro-Insect crawled onto her fingertip.
"Try to command them," Miki said.
Yui nodded, extended her hand to touch Miki's fingertip, and immediately the Parasitic Micro-Insect, without Miki's command, crawled onto Yui's finger.
They did not attack Yui.
On Yui's finger, some Parasitic Micro-Insect crawled back onto Miki's hand.
"They suddenly stopped obeying," Yui said.
Like Insect Sister, after authority is delegated, the swarm obeys her commands.
"These Insects are for you," Miki said, then looked at Shikuro and Ryoma and asked, "Do you want them?"
Shikuro and Ryoma nodded upon hearing this.
"Like Yui, don't resist," Miki said, extending her hand to begin the infection.
It ended shortly after.
However, it did not succeed.
Although the two didn't quite understand what had happened, they looked at Miki expectantly.
They wanted the Insects.
Miki looked at the two and thought, so is it like Orochimaru, relying on personal charisma to make subordinates loyal to the death?
If that were the case, the only ones who would trust her absolutely and never resist, besides Hitomi, would be Naori.
Tsunade, on the other hand, was a bit subtle.
This method of infection was too inefficient; although she could cultivate fanatics through proselytization.
But the preliminary work required too much, and Miki herself disliked religion.
However, fear cannot make a person's soul submit; only benevolence and love can erode and dominate the will?
A somewhat annoying method.
Are there other ways?
Miki fell into contemplation.
The interrogation room fell silent.
Miki looked at Ryoma and asked, "If I order you to commit suicide now, what would you do?"
Ryoma paused for a moment and said, "Execute the order."
"Then, prove it," Miki said.
Upon hearing this, after several seconds of hesitation, Ryoma pulled out a Kunai he carried and fiercely plunged it towards his chest.
He did not hold back.
Miki allowed Ryoma to stab the Kunai into his heart.
Ryoma groaned in pain and knelt on the ground.
"Humans are truly strange."
As she spoke, Insects flew out from under Miki's clothing and began healing him.
This level of injury, if treated promptly, was not fatal, so Miki did not stop him.
Ryoma was truly ruthless, to be able to do something like this.
Even with Ryoma like this, she couldn't infect him. What made him determined to carry out the suicide order?
A Shinobi's code of conduct?
It was probably due to multiple reasons.
If so, this guy was the hardest type to infect.
A fanatic of some kind of thing.
Further conditioning was needed.
Emptying the mind, obeying my will?
Miki was thoughtful.
If it were that simple, there would be many ways.
Infants with blank minds were the easiest to infect.
And completely destroying and twisting the mind was also a method.
But this level of pain was not enough.
She could also twist their worldview through talk-no-jutsu.
Or, Kotoamatsukami?
Then, let's try this.
Miki looked at the Samurai from before.
"Take him down."
Upon hearing this, Shikuro stepped forward, untied the hanging Samurai, and dragged him to a bound torture bed inside the room.
When infecting the Slug before, due to the Slug's inherent characteristics, many physical methods could not be applied.
For example, physical destruction of the brain.
Artificially creating imbecility, i.e., a blank mind.
Or destroying a person's mind through mental pressure.
Mental destruction was too slow, so Miki chose physical destruction.
She stood up, had Shikuro tie the man down, and then Miki selected a handy tool.
A Senbon was held in Miki's hand as she walked to the Samurai.
She was about to begin a barbaric surgery.
A lobotomy.
This surgery could turn a person into an innocent and quiet child.
A patch of purple crawled onto the Senbon, beginning sterilization.
Then Miki inserted the Senbon through the bottom of the eye socket, and after the needle tip reached the frontal lobe area, she began to stir.
The remaining work would be cleaned up by the Parasitic Micro-Insect.
A moment later, Miki withdrew the Senbon.
The surgery was over.
Although it was her first time, Miki was very proficient.
There were no mistakes, and the excision was quite clean.
After the Samurai was woken up, he sat blankly and foolishly on the bed, his dull gaze unfocused, not moving.
He looked very quiet.
The other Samurai watched this scene in horror.
Even after being beaten, their pants hadn't been wet, but now they were completely soaked; they were terrified.
This kind of inconspicuous horror that couldn't be thought about too deeply.
It made people feel fear.
Miki reached out and began the infection.
Finally, she put down her hand.
Purple Parasitic Micro-Insect crawled onto her palm to disinfect it.
"How interesting."
It failed, but it also succeeded.
So the problem was…
"The soul hidden deep within the mind."
People in the Ninja World had souls.
Miki had known this for a long time, but she had never witnessed it.
If there was, Kato Dan's Spiritual Transformation Technique should count.
This infection was very smooth, but it inexplicably failed at the end, and Miki lost the ultimate goal of the infection.
It looked like a corrupted file that couldn't be decompressed.
Miki should have noticed this much earlier.
For example, a dead life, even if its cells were still active and not completely dead, Miki could not complete the infection.
So, was the problem here?
To find the soul within the human body?
And then, to erode and infect it.
If that's the case, the inability to infect all this time was just the soul cunningly playing hide-and-seek with Miki.
"I see."
Miki obtained a satisfactory result.
All this time, Miki thought her infection was a physical infection mediated by Chakra, but now it seemed that what was abnormal was Miki's soul itself.
It was a memetic infection transmitted through information.
Many people had already been infected by Miki unknowingly, only needing Miki to perform the final transformation.
And the swarm was Miki herself, within which her soul was hidden.
In other words, the key to infection lay in recognition; the soul within the body had to have no hostility towards Miki, thereby letting go of the body and allowing Miki to manipulate it.
And the ignorant souls of low-intelligence infants were extremely easy to deceive.
As for insects without intelligence, or rather, insects had souls, but they were too minuscule.
Miki found a new solution.
Orochimaru's Immortality Reincarnation.
Devouring souls.
Or, the Reaper Death Seal to extract the soul and occupy the body.
Simply put, this method was called body snatching.
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