CHAPTER 135: GALE’S THOUGHT PROCESS

Gale’s Thought Process

Osho is cool.

That’s what Gale believed, anyway.

Gale had slowly been assimilating Osho’s thoughts and memories through their bond. It was controlled, so it started with Gale learning basic things like understanding English and math, but it soon ramped up as Gale started assimilating more important things.

Important aspects of Osho’s life, the things he went through, how he felt towards certain concepts, and all in all, just who he was as a person.

Armed with all that information, Gale had a single thought whenever his mind drifted to Osho.

He was cool.

His mind worked in ways that Gale had a hard time understanding. At first glance, it seemed like chaos, and whenever he tried to listen to his thoughts, it felt like he was listening to a jumbled mess of words and ideas.

Gale wondered why that was, and for a while, he believed that other humans were like this as well. However, whenever he heard Osho’s friends talk about how Osho was random at times with his ideas, he realized that Osho was a bit unique in this regard.

What’s more, Gale initially believed his thoughts were chaos, but when he inspected them closely, he found out there was a strange order to them. He couldn’t make sense of it, but Osho had no problem picking through the mess and selecting what he wanted. He also found it interesting how whenever he was doing something he enjoyed his thoughts would straighten out, and whatever he was doing became the focus of his attention while everything else sort of... got pushed to the back.

It was weird. However, this isn’t what made Gale call Osho cool.

While his thoughts were random, it was their sheer scope that impressed the bird. His mind worked in ways that Gale didn’t understand, ideas that Gale found hard to fathom were a regular thing.

In fact, during one of the more intense sessions of evolution Osho had been busy with, he decided to take a break and train with Gale. He then proceeded to unload a large amount of information into the bird’s brain via their bond, and Gale was amazed by the complexity.

Osho had thoroughly analyzed Gale and his habits along with his abilities, including things related to his domain, speed, durability, senses, and perception. Gale felt a bit embarrassed that a human was able to come up with moves for him so easily, considering they weren’t even his abilities, but it was drowned out by his fascination.

There was something else that Gale liked a lot.

Osho’s respect for him.

Beast Tamers naturally had some level of respect for their Beasts. However, in most cases, they still believed themselves to be superior.

However, Osho wasn’t like that. Gale never felt like he was being treated as lesser or anything like that. Usually, if Osho wanted him to do something, he’d ask and not just give a direct order, and even if he did, it was usually in a situation where wasting time asking for his opinion wasn’t very smart.

He also complimented Gale frequently whenever he did something of note, even when it was over small things like improving his Grammar or completing small tasks. He was very affectionate with him, too.

Then there was the deal with evolution itself. Gale thought Osho evolving him was nice, but he never fully understood just how significant it had been until he evolved the beasts of others.

He always believed himself to be superior to the beasts of Ellie and the others. Not just in strength, but in potential as well. Sugil was a bit better off, but the truth was that none of them could truly catch up to him.

Gale wasn’t a fan of this.

He found all their abilities to be quite cool. Sugil with her crystals, Blackie with her poison, Clyde with his sound, and Inagi with his poison. So the fact that their growth cap wasn’t that close to his was pretty sad, and it showed early on as even if they all came at him, they rarely did any damage.

Despite seeing himself as superior, Gale did like them, so seeing that he’d leave them behind in terms of power wasn’t fun.

But then Osho came along and evolved them.

He wasn’t able to evolve them to the same extent as Gale. Apparently, the place they lived, the Citadel, lacked the items needed. However, Osho was able to get them pretty close, and when they sparred again, Osho found himself under far more pressure.

They weren’t just stronger, they were faster. Moreover, their Tamers had gotten even more competent, and Gale nearly found himself getting overwhelmed by them with each battle. Despite his far larger skill set as a result of Osho’s help, he found himself getting pressured.

That’s what he wanted.

Beyond being his friends. He wanted beasts that could rival him. Beasts that could push him.

He hadn’t known why he had this urge initially, but when he felt himself get pressured, he felt something within his being stir.

His bloodline.

It’s been established that when exposed to any form of restrictions or pressure, Gale gradually gains a resistance to that thing—depending on the intensity—and becomes unbound by it.

Osho decided to name this the Freedom Concept. Gale liked that name.

Gale also instinctively knew that this concept behind his bloodline existed on a sort of hierarchy, and quite high on it as well, but he didn’t know the details or how high it truly went, he just knew that it did.

Anyway, the pressure born by the other beasts nearly overwhelming him spurred his bloodline, and forced him to grow at an exponential rate.

This was another function of Gale’s bloodline that no one knew about until now.

Previously, all cases of his bloodline acting up were limited to things that restricted/pressured him in one way or another. This could be from him being bound or being put on a timer.

However, this forced another aspect to reveal itself.

Gale was happy that his friends had a chance to start catching up. However, he did still see himself as superior to them, so the idea of losing to them made him feel pressure, and this pressure was noted and analyzed by his bloodline, which deemed the best way to deal with such pressure to be by getting stronger.

So Gale didn’t know it yet, but his bloodline was gradually making it so that he couldn’t lose to anyone he deemed to be his peer and he judged himself to be above.

Compared to everything else, this would take far more time to fully implement due to just how large a scope it was, but it was happening.

Anyway, the only thing Gale didn’t like that Osho did was his forgetfulness when it came to eating and resting. Whenever he focused on something, he’d become fixated on it and forget about everything else. Whenever he got like that, he even found it hard to attend to Gale!

The bird found it unacceptable, but there wasn’t a lot he could do about it, as when he tried to annoy Osho to stop, it wouldn’t always end the way he wanted, and in the end, he’d just feel bad for making Osho unhappy.

Which is why he became very cheerful when Osho stated he was done evolving eggs and finally got some proper rest. That meant they could do things together again.

Speaking of, Osho kept talking about this Beast Tamer College they were going to go to, but he still didn’t know what that fully meant. He knew it was meant to teach them things, but he didn’t see why that was necessary. They already had people to teach them things here, and there were many resources for them to use too, so he wasn’t too sure.

However, Osho simply told him that they could find better stuff there, so Gale decided to trust him in that regard.

Another thing that confused him was the way he interacted with Ellie.

If he wasn’t wrong, Ellie was his chosen mate, wasn’t she? So why was he so slow in procreation with her?

He’d brought up the topic before, and Osho, despite getting flustered, explained that the way humans and Beasts saw relationships differed greatly, and there were far more nuances in the process.

Gale was confused, to be honest.

If you saw another being you liked, and they like you back, why waste time? You’ve already confirmed that your feelings are mutual, so anything else just seemed like an unnecessary waste of time.

Then again, Osho told him that judging wasn’t nice to do a while back as everyone—Beasts and Humans—was different, and trying to instill what you find normal in them isn’t fair, especially when you expect them to conform to your expectations and not conform to theirs.

That one had stuck with Gale, he tended to forget that not everyone was a bird like him.

But regardless, he liked how things were going. It was fun.