Sarah stood in silence with her mouth agape. She hadn’t thought about how much of a problem that could be in the future. She agreed to John’s idea and they both came up with a plan.
They decided to tell Kelly that the puppets were only helping Sarah until John returned because they had saved their lives in the past. Now that John was back, it was time for them to return to their families.
Over the next few hours, they talked about what to tell Kelly in regards to how they met, why Sarah chose to live in the jungle, and a few other things.
John then took out a thousand beastman cores of each element and gave them to Sarah. It took about twenty minutes for Sarah to gain control over all thirteen elements after eating a few hundred cores altogether. John placed the remaining cores inside his Storage Space to save them for Kelly to use as an Immortal.
After going through all the plans, John destroyed the bed, and as they were getting ready to fly back to the house, Sarah asked, “What’re you going to do about that Demon personality you talked about? You do know that making it do the breathing technique for you is only a temporary fix, right?”
“What can I do? I know it isn’t a permanent solution, but I don’t know how to get rid of it.”
“Who said you should get rid of it?” Sarah asked. “While it gave you suggestions to do those things to the mortals and blow up planets to generate the sins, it might’ve helped you in other ways, too; like dealing with the after-effects of killing so many people.
“Immortals are still technically human, and killing that many people would take a toll on anybody. Compared to the soldiers who fought in wars back on Earth, you’re perfectly fine without showing any signs of distress. That’s insane considering the fact that they might’ve killed a few hundred people at the very most, whereas you’ve killed billions.
“It could be the Demon personality taking in all the negative emotions, leaving you with the benefits and none of the repercussions.
“If that’s the case and you get rid of the Demon personality, then all of that negativity might overwhelm you mentally and seriously harm your psyche.
“I wasn’t a psychologist but I did quite a few rounds in the psych ward in the hospital before, and I remember the way to fix this is to, well, fuse the personalities together.
“The only possible way that I know of is to confront the source of the split. In your case, it comes from you killing innocent people, including children, on your rampage against the Anti-assassin Sect. I’m not sure how to help, but you’ve got to come to terms with what you’ve done on your own.” She grabbed his hand and squeezed it before continuing.
“I feel like I’m partly to blame. You wouldn’t have done what you did if I didn’t fall into a coma after losing the fight. Despite what you did, how you act, or what you’ll do in the future, you’re a kind and caring man, and I’m happy about that. Someone without a conscience wouldn’t be in the situation you’re in.”
John shook his head. “I have no idea where to start. You’ve seen the conscious centre the Demon talked about in the Information Sphere, but I don’t even know how to get there. How am I supposed to talk to the Demon or come to terms with killing children?”
Sarah shrugged her shoulders. “I’m not an expert either. This is the sort of thing people used to hire psychologists for back on Earth.”
John took a deep breath and rubbed his temples. “I can’t do anything about it now, so I might as well focus on what to do next. I think it’s time for Kelly to start training in the basics of martial arts. I want to give her the skills to improve her body and make her immune to poisons, but that wouldn’t be possible without her system informing her about my Share skill.”
Sarah thought about the poison immunity and answered, “If we want her to have a fairly normal childhood, then you can’t use your Share skill. The best way to fight poisons without a mysterious system is for the body to create antitoxins to fight it, but the only way for those antitoxins to get created is by being exposed to the poisons.
“I can administer the smallest amount of poison to her body for a short period of time before giving her the antidote. That will make her body immune to those poisons over time. We’ve done experiments like that back on Earth, so I know what I’m doing.”
John smiled. “We’ll have to go with that plan for the time being then. We’ve got time. From now on, I’m going to try to figure out what her system is. With any luck, she won’t have to kill millions of people to get any real strength, like Danny’s system.
“Let’s go home. Kelly will wake up in a few hours.”
Chapter 2: Story
The next morning, John and Sarah were sitting at the kitchen table and talking. Sarah whispered, “Since we know she’s a Sider, why don’t we just tell her everything?”
John shook his head and whispered back, “We know nothing of her past life. When someone suddenly comes to a new universe and a system shows up with skills that could literally help them rule the world, we don’t know how that person will react.
“If they were bullied in their past life and then come into that kind of power, they might just go around killing people they see bullying others.
“I was lucky back then. I was still mourning over Lisa’s death and had no interest in other women.
