[ Baby, I'm fine. Don't worry.]
I hold the bullet wound as I teleport back to a make shift base I've been using this past month, an abandoned apartment complex.
[ Fine, my butt! I got a notification saying 'Warning!Body possessed by system: health dropped by 20%' where in that does it say fine! Did you get hurt?!] Alexander lectures me, as I'm taking out the bullet from my waist.
Opps, I forgot to turn that off in his settings.
[ I got hurt, but I'm taking care of it right now.]
I grunt in pain. Damn, it slipped back in. And it hurts bending to try looking down, how am I supposed to get it out like this?
Agh, my own body's the best, practically immune to everything and impenetrable. A bullet would have just bounced off. Too bad, I can only use my original body in level A worlds or higher.
Let's just try my luck and randomly dig around. Sorry if I poke an organ out of our body, Oliver.
I lean against the bathroom door, feeling lightheaded, as I continue digging inside my waist.
[...-ver, Oliver! Can you hear me? You need to stay stay awake! Is it a bullet or knife wound?!]
[ Bullet. Babe, I need to focus right now, give me a minute.]
I finally grasp the bullet in me, I quickly pinch it and pull it out. More blood spurts out, decorating the bathroom sink and floor. I grab a towel off the counter to put pressure on the wound.
[ I'm done. Sorry for worrying you.] I say softly, worried he might be crying.
[ ... are you okay now?]
[ Aww, baby, please don't start crying. I'm okay, I promise. You remember that we're immortal, right?] I grin.
It has been a while since someone worried about me, feels nice.
I grab a needle connected with a string off the counter, brought it out of my space storage earlier, and start stitching my self up.
[ I'm not crying.] He scoffs at me, then continues to lecture me about safety.
I listen to him as I continue to piece my skin back together. I clean up my other wounds as well.
That parasite bastard nicked me a few times throughout the battle with the knife he stole from me, it was the first dagger I threw at him.
I hum in response every now and then. His voice was like a pain killer for me, soothing. He usually has this calmness in his voice, but it sounds more hoarse than normal, like he cried.
[ What are you doing right now?]
[Uh-] I'm wrapping the bandage around my bloody waist, but I can't tell him that... [ -I'm cleaning up.]
I glance at the overseer system that was hopping around in a panic.
[ S- so much blood! Are you dying?! Oh my god! (αα£α)Υ And how are you not making a sound of pain?!]
" I'm fine. Start cleaning this mess up." I order it, seeing that it had nothing to do other than panic.
" Huu." I exhale in fatigue, as I clean my self up. After wiping my body with a wet towel, I change my clothing.
[ Are you done taking care of the wound?]
[ Yeah.]
[Then, go rest. Goodnight, Olie.]
I leave the mess to the overseer system, and shuffle towards the bed. I flop down, disregarding the pain Oliver's body was in.
I'll speed up this body's natural healing abilities as I sleep.
[ Goodnight, sweetheart.]
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I spent the next couple days watching over the parasite. I wanted to kill him the second I found him, but the overseer system asked me to wait since he was behaving weirdly. He was cleaning up all the shady connections and attempted crimes by the previous owner of his body.
The world Will hired us because it thought that the foreign evil soul was going to reck havoc in its territory. However, we haven't detected any 'evil'. Upon inspection I found that this new soul had intertwined with the original evil one. He's in a blank state right now. Not evil but not good, he's simply hovering inbetween.
In fact, I even tested him during that fight we had. I gave him multiple opportunities to give me a fatal life threatening hit, but he never did. His capabilities were on par with my own, and that's saying something considering I upgraded Oliver's body.
I am pissed about getting shot though, but I already got pay back by shooting him three times.
Anyway, we decided an observation period was required before terminating a potentially innocent soul and pushing them in this worlds afterlife or reincarnation, depending on how the gods or god of this world do it.
I'm currently on a roof top watching the parasite. It's late in the evening, not many people on this road, so it was quite obvious that he was being followed by a couple people. This was a group the original evil soul was making a deal with to launder money through his clubs. As well as the last group the new soul was cutting off from his life. It seemed like he wanted to get clean.
Those stalkers started herding the parasite when he noticed them.
As the parasite turns to a corner, I hop down the building I'm on to ambush him as he was looking behind, keeping an eye on those stalkers.
" Found you, you rat bastard! Let's see if you can run this time as well."
I head lock him as I drag him into the ally.
" Ack! Wait, wait, wait!"
" Wait for what? I just have to kill you quickly and go back."
" Not now! I set up the bait for another group, your gonna get caught in the cross fire. And how did you even find me?!"
" Another group? Oh, you mean those guys?" I glance back at the guys that where running towards us.
" Hey!" A gruff man shows up behind us. " Julius, my boss just wants to talk, work things out, renegotiate the terms if needed."
" Tsk. I already said no, I'm doing that kind of stuff anymore." The parasite, Julius, grits out.
From both sides of the alley, men popped up wielding bats and switch blades.
I let go of the parasite and tap his shoulder.
" Guess we'll have to work together for now. You take that side, parasite." I push him towards one end of the alley as I take on the other side.
" Alright, but don't call me parasite." He scowls shrugging my hand off, before running towards the five gangsters.
I take care of my side as he took down the others.
As I slam down the last guys face into the wall, Julius grabs my wrist and runs, pulling me along.
" Why are we running?" I ask confused, but still run.
" Cops, someone called the cops on us."
I check my mental map, seeing three police cars pull up where we just were. " Oh." I nod. " So where are we going now?"
He lets go of my arm as we come to a stop, a few blocks away from where we were before.
" Sigh* You still want your revenge?" He sighs looking at me.
" Hmm, not really?" I tilt my head, wondering if Main still wants me to kill this guy.
" Good, that's good. Thanks man. See ya." He grins, patting my shoulder before turning away.
I yank the back of his shirt.
" Ack! What now?!" He growls.
" I need to ask my boss first, so I need you to come with me."
" Boss? I thought this was your own personal revenge? So you're saying someone put a hit on me?"
" Yup." I grin before karate chopping his neck, with enough force to knock him out for rest of the night.
[ Teleportation skill used.]
Back in the apartment, I drag him by his shirt and dump him the couch. I head to my bed and lay down.
[ Message:
Main, here's the report for all the stuff this parasite has been doing. I inspected his soul, it's gray. I don't think he's evil enough for the world Will to freak out.
Respond in an hour or else I'm ditching this mission and going back to my baby. Hurry the f up.]