Uchiha Shūichi walked slowly across the lake, soon reaching its very center. Then he lowered his head and gazed at the pitch-black water.
Kurama Yakumo's Mental Space felt like a fairytale world wherever you looked. Even the lake, which shifted in color from azure to pitch black, seemed natural.
But now, standing in the middle of the lake and facing its dark center, Uchiha Shūichi could faintly sense ripples stirring in those black depths. An unimaginable Mental Power Crystal was taking shape there, absorbing Kurama Yakumo's negative emotions as it slowly developed.
In theory, given Kurama Yakumo's current mental state, the Mental Power Creature beneath the black lake might never have the chance to fully form. It was equivalent to a Negative Personality within her—a faint stray thought in her mind.
In fact, contrary to the common belief that everyone had only one personality, each person's mind was a complex whole made up of many different personalities.
For most people, these many personalities formed a harmonious whole. Only in very rare cases did they become divided and opposed to one another—a condition commonly known as dissociative identity disorder.
In the original story, Kurama Yakumo went berserk and killed her own parents largely because she lost control of her emotions. It was only her excessively powerful Mental Power that led to such irreversible consequences.
For an ordinary person, a blow of that magnitude would at most lead to a good cry or a bout of smashing things. After some time, their emotions would settle.
But it was precisely the act of killing her parents, and the surge of negative emotions caused by that immense psychological shock, that allowed the Inner Demon in Kurama Yakumo's heart to fully take shape.
In other words, a whole series of coincidences had to occur for