I open my eyes to find everyone playing some games and just lying around. I do a quick scan to find my body and find that I'm perfectly fine. I then look over my status to find that my superpower had been boosted.
[Evolved Light's Bane]
[Due to the effects of [Progenitor Of Superpowers] light's bane has been amplified to such as a massive degree it can't even be recognized as the same power. Instead of now just reusing light as energy you can completely destroy light inside your body giving yourself more energy making it so you never need to eat. Your lung capacity has also been enhanced allowing for almost infinite processing and storage of light should your breathing stay stable. Various abilities regarding darkness have also been improved, modified and a new fusion of abilities has also been created]
[Renaming the power is recommended to lessen confusion. Also it could just have a better name]
I decide to put the naming off for now, it could be done latter and names took time. I then start running a in-depth scan on my body while I breathe.
After a few breaths I start to get up before I start getting a flash of my more traumatic memories. While they weren't in order or coherent I couldn't see or hear anything but them.
I kept getting the same memories replayed until I was snapped out of it with a loud ringing in my ears. I look over to find my cyborg parts making a list of issues.
While a bunch of information is being displayed I decide to take the risker route for solving the problem, killing my regret.
While playing with souls was incredibly stupid, it was that, removing my memories of those events or turning my emotional inhibitors up more and that would be extremely dangerous.
After a few deep breaths and making a mirror I start to slowly shave away pieces of my soul. I have to cut through some memories to get there, I get rid of my the memories for the rest of my shop. I then slowly start sawing away at the regret.
While I was somewhat sociopathic I could still feel regret, albeit rarely. After a few more painstaking minutes and more close calls then I'd care to admit, I manage to remove the regret.
I then put the piece of my soul inside the old earring I had before I swapped it out for the storage one. As soon as my soul fully enters the ring it changes a bit so it could fit my finger before it suddenly flies into my shoulder crystal.
I watch as the crystal exits my shoulder more and the ring turns into a circle before incasing the bottom half of the crystal while making an odd pattern of white x's against a blood red metal.
A few seconds after exiting my shoulder the crystal falls back into place with an extremely loud click while I feel a wave sadness coming over me. I look over a bunch of new notifications while I catch myself crying.
[You have Crystalized your regret within a S class spirit stone, you have successfully crystalized a part of your soul and created a greater spirit stone that can hold more energy and will now passively absorb regret. While it doesn't give much energy by default, emotions like despair or terror will usually amplify regret. While you absorb regret, you do not remove it from others]
[Due to the name 'Barry's Regret' being taken a suitable name will be found]
I then wait a few minutes as continually wipe my eyes, though the tears seem to be slowing down. I then finally stop the tears as I readjust my emotional suppressors. I then send myself the footage of the store and the events that happened.
While I felt like there were a few gaps in the timeline but otherwise I felt like I was as knowledgeable as my old self, though I have no idea why I felt like that. I then get up and walk inside to be blasted by nostalgia.
I quickly look around to find everyone playing some HHG while I went to the back. I then looked to find myself with the empty power cells and the rest of my energy pills. I then hook myself up to them before eating the pills.
I then distribute all the power into the cells before taking out my cauldron and a rice cooker and I put the rice on but this time I decide to hold off on making any more energy pills for a few reasons.
First, it was the fact I had a cooking skill but I never used it, that was just a waste. Second, while the pills can be consumed they just don't give as much energy and my breathing could sustain me just fine.
The added effort of making them was also something I just couldn't be bothered to do currently. I had a plethora of skills and abilities to test.
I breathe in as I warp outside to find that the shadows visibly lengthened with my arrival. While it looked cool and everything, it was definitely not subtle. I decide to walk around while trying to get the shadows under control.
I keep walking until a crack in space appears about ten feet in front of me and a man ridding a motorcycle then exits the space. I blink in confusion as the motorcycle then does a flip off.
I then get a good look of the man, seeing that he is covered head to toe in a sliver colored armor. He then throws a few throwing knives at me while I simply teleport to above his head and slam my heel into his helmet.
He makes a crater below his feet but aside from that no damage is visible. More blades then appear and I teleport backwards into some shadows.
I then watch as twenty blades then hover near the figure while I take out my twin pistols and I make a bunch of shadow blades.