The feeling was sickening. The blackish energy that radiated from the scale made her feel like she was drowning in quicksand with no way out. It was like the feeling of despair had, for a short time, knocked her off the very pillars that supported her very essence. It was suffocating…and then, it passed. It was as if those few seconds had never happened. She was kneeling, panting, and sweating profusely while resting her arm on her knee. At some point, her concentration must have broken as the partial transformation of her arm was no longer in effect and the spear had dissipated back into the air.
So, Nagi regained her bearings and stood up while wiping her sweat off her forehead. "If that was what that guy was feeling, then suicide doesn't seem like that bad an option in the face of that dense despair."
She pulled up the map she had recorded and searched for the closest markings. After confirming the locations, she looked off into the city and focused her senses again to double check the locations while keeping the map on her phone open. It was likely that some of them would be moving if others had picked them up, after all.