The Idle System (A LitRPG series Book 7): Family, Pegaz [learn to read books txt] 📗

“What’s wrong with you? Since we’ve come to this town, it’s like you’re becoming more and more overprotective of not just Kelly, but me, too!

“I’m a Rank 9, just like you! I can use all the elements you can use, but if anything happens, you deal with it for me like I’m some damsel in distress!

“And you still haven’t told me why you’re creating those runes! You’ve told me what they are and what they do, but you dance around telling me why they’re so damn important!”

Lost in thought, John didn’t answer, which led Sarah to believe that he had no intention of spilling the beans. She rolled her eyes and stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind her.

I don’t think I’ve changed that much, have I? I know Sarah can handle herself, so I don’t interfere with anything she does, and I want Kelly to be able to handle herself, too.

I’ve even organised creature attacks on her when she goes to the jungle, so if I’m overprotective, that wouldn’t happen.

What’s Sarah on about then?

As he was thinking, he saw Kelly walking towards the house in his Scan and stuffed the runes and other tools into his Storage Space since Kelly was still unaware of their existence.

By the time Kelly opened the door, John had put everything away and sat at the kitchen table. He almost forgot about the mythical rune he had dropped due to the interruption from the system, but he found it in his Scan and put it away before Kelly arrived.

“You and mom fight again?” Kelly asked as she pushed open the door.

“I would say we’re exchanging our opinions loudly. Fighting is a strong word,” he replied with a chuckle.

Kelly walked to the kitchen table while laughing and sat down opposite John. “Then what would you call the big argument you had with mom a few years ago? Another exchange of opinions but at the top of your lungs?”

A smirk formed on John’s face as he remembered the fight Kelly often called “the big argument”—it was about what Kelly should do to an enemy.

John’s opinion was that she should kill them to make sure the person couldn’t attempt to hurt or kill her a second time.

Sarah’s opinion was to let the person go the first time, but if they tried it again, then Kelly could kill the person with a clear conscience.

One of his biggest mistakes to date happened next, as he couldn’t help but laugh at Sarah’s opinion.

“What’s so funny?” she replied, throwing him a side glance.

“You’re gonna get her killed!”

He claimed that while Kelly might be able to defeat the enemy at that time, next time it would be different as the enemy had come to understand how strong she was. They would then prepare better and try to catch her off guard, potentially leading to her death. To prevent that, she should get rid of any future danger right then and there.

Sarah argued that John’s training would let her deal with hidden dangers easily, but if Kelly killed an enemy then any chance of redemption would disappear. She said that she knew people who had committed terrible acts but then turned around to do good in the world which saved countless lives.

On top of that, Sarah argued that if Kelly went around killing all her enemies, the family of the dead would seek revenge and would attack when she least expected it anyway, so Kelly might as well take a chance that the enemy would turn around and do good, or possibly become friends through fighting.

The argument didn’t go anywhere and both John and Sarah never backed down from their opinions.

It lasted for hours and it was only until Kelly screamed that it was her choice to make and she wouldn’t know what she’d do until it happened that the argument stopped.

John came out of his thoughts and looked at Kelly. “You didn’t come here just to tell me I shouldn’t argue with your mother, right?”

Kelly smiled. “Of course not. I heard some news about the royal family that I thought you might want to know about.”

Her father stared at her questionably. “What news?”

“I knew you wanted to know!” She playfully stuck out her tongue and proceeded to tell him. “A royal entourage is coming here! The Bahan’s princess and the Gralux’s prince are getting married, so they started touring both kingdoms a few years ago. They’ll be here in about a month.”

John listened to Kelly go on and on about the royals, especially the prince.

When Kelly had calmed down a little, he decided he’d better warn her about what royalty could really be like.

He looked Kelly in the eyes before saying, “While there are a few royal members who are decent, most of them believe everything belongs to them and don’t even think about how commoners think or feel. The king will even have multiple women to make sure their bloodline continues, and some of them aren’t with him willingly.

“While you’re imagining meeting the prince, just remember that fantasy is always much nicer than reality, so don’t be too disappointed when reality hits you.”

John saw Kelly blush a little before she ran outside, not even saying goodbye to him.

Chapter 14: Experiment

“Is it normal for girls to fantasise about marrying a prince?” John asked Sarah as she re-entered the house a few hours later.

Sarah shrugged. “No idea. When I was growing up, I dreamed about being a surgeon and all my friends were the same. Why? Don’t tell me a prince is going to disappear soon?”

“No, they’d soon find someone that well-known and connected. More people would be searching for a missing prince than anyone else in the kingdom, and even if I brainwashed him into thinking he cleaned the streets for a living, his demeanour would be different than those around him because he was taught differently when growing up.”

Sarah sighed in relief, but then she heard John continue.

“If I destroy the kingdom, he’d