“S-so… you are basically saying you are my mother?”
“Yes!~ That’s right!~”
“…”
“Eeeh…what’s wrong?”
“It feels awkward…”
“Aren’t you happy to see me?!”
“Honestly, I just felt like you are being absurd telling me this all of the sudden…”
“I….I see….”
I just stood there quietly and she just sits uncomfortably on the ground as I honestly told her that it was really awkward…
She fidgets as she kept looking left and right.
It seems she wants to start a conversation again but too nervous to.
“Hey…uhh….”
“Yes?!~ Also, please call me mother!~”
“What’s wrong?”
“U-um… I-it’s… uh…ahahaha… it’s such a nice weather isn’t?”
“…There aren’t even any windows here for you to see the weather…”
“Uhhh….”
“Anyway… if you really are my mother… what are you?”
“Ah! As I told you earlier, I am Nivalis!~ People in the mortal plane call us gods and goddesses but I prefer the term Transcendental Being.”
“Then I am one of those transcendental being right?”
“Hmm… Not quite… Your body is but your soul is only half…”
“I see… then… why did you only call me now? Couldn’t you have done it earlier…?”
“…I’m sorry… the progress of your body and soul merging with each other is really taking a long time… I wasn’t able to make any connection with you since your mind and body isn’t that fully merged with each other. Even up until now, there is still a gap…”
“…”
“W-what?”
I have asked a question but something is really getting my attention…
On top of her head, there’s a hair sticking out.
This is what you call idiot's hair.
It’s sways left and right happily.
“A-Asagao… Where are you looking at? Won’t you just look at me? Here, here!~”
“Ni—Mother…uh… What’s the reason you are calling me now?”
“Ehehe!~ I want my cute daughter to see her pretty mother!~ Is it wrong?!~”
I immediately stand up and my hand rushes at the hair happily swaying, grab it and pull it playfully.
“Uwaaaah! Don’t pull it! *sob* stop it! *sob* stop, stop, stop!”
“Ah…”
“*sob* don’t bully me! Uwaaah! Why?!”
“Are you really a goddess?”
“Uhhh…*hic*”
“I can’t feel any motherly or godly presence from you… and you easily cry like this…”
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“*sob* aren’t you a crybaby yourself?!”
I pull the hair harder.
“UWAAAH! Stop! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
“Fine…”
I let go of the swaying hair and take a step back and sit in front of her.
“Uhh..not even a hug…”
“I’m sorry… it’s just that… this is absurd that I can’t believe it…”
“I see. That’s fine then. Then, what if I answer some questions that you have right now?”
“Really?!”
“Yes! But… I can’t go into details right now as we only have limited time.”
“That’s fine…”
I look at her with discerning eyes but she only fixes her standing hair and smiles at me radiantly…
Cute…
I want to bully her…
Is this how people often perceive me?
Should I act more grumpy and angry?
I should think of a question to ask now.
“Ni—mother… tell me… what connection do we have? Do you know why Fon-nii and I have the same appearance?”
“Ah… so we are starting with that! I want to give you the full details but I have to draw out Astlan’s memory to show it to you.”
“Astlan? Fon-nii?”
“No… Astlan Lionheart… is the very first Lionheart and a summoned hero. Ashfon just takes Astlan’s name ever since he received Astlan’s power.”
“Eh?! Eh?!!!”
“And Ashfon is my and Astlan’s long, long predecessor.”
“EH?!”
“Kyaa!~ I can still remember Astlan’s grumpy and mad face!~”
This is… believable or not, base on appearance it might true…
And for this woman to squeal in front of me like a girl in love…
“Then… where’s Astlan now?”
“…Astlan…died four years ago… away and hidden from anyone…he passed secretly with only a few people know about it…”
“I see… then… what are you saying that I am your daughter?! It still confuses me!”
“Your body… is the body I made a dozen of a millennium ago.”
“You are that old? Hag…”
“FUEEH?! You are basically an old hag too you know! I mean that body is a dozen of millennium now!”
“Then…how did I get this body… shouldn’t you be using it?”
“That body… I stored it away in the dimensional rift… hidden from the prying eyes of the other gods… after I did my quest when I descended at that time. It’s a miracle that, you, of all people to stumble upon it.”
“Eh?! Why is that?!”
“I need to hide it because it can be an evidence of me, descending from this plane…”
“So it’s illegal for you… transcendental being to descend?”
“Yes… unfortunately…”
“Then… why the hell there’s a large discrepancy between your body and mine?!”
“AH?!”
That’s what bothering me now.
I am small, slim and a child who hasn’t entered growth spurt yet while she is fully grown with a pair of bountiful bags.
“Ahahaha… I’m sorry… I don’t remember the reason why I made that body that way…”
“Uhhhh… so… I will still be entering that monthly bloody period…”
“That’s impossible…”
“…”
“Our body, as a goddess, won’t experience that!”
“OH! That’s a relief!”
“It’s just that… your body may take millenniums to reach adulthood…”
“Being a body of a goddess…or anything… I can believe that…”
“But be careful, though…”
“…”
“Our body is everlasting fertile. You must be really careful…”
“What?!”
Everlasting fertile! That means that even I do it even once…
Awawawa!
I shouldn’t even imagine it and I don’t want to!
“As long as you are careful!~”
“…can we move on? About Astlan… about you… and about me… there’s more to speak of, right?”
“Yes.”
“…”
“I won’t cut corners now. When Ashfon was five, it was the time Astlan gave up his power and granted it to Ashfon, at such tender age… along with his virtues and hopes for this world. Together with it, I also granted Ashfon the blessing Truth Bell.”
“What…”
“Hmm? Eeeep!!!”
As she realized what she just said, her body jerks and covers her mouth with her hands.
“Blessing Truth Bell… What is that?!”
“W-what are you talking about!?~”
“…”
I immediately grab her idiot hair again and pull it upside down.
“Uwaah! Please stop! *sob* I will tell! I will tell!”
“Okay… what is that?”
“…uhhh…it’s a blessing I granted to him. It can detect lies. Whenever a statement is a lie, a bell will rings inside his head…”
“Oh?! Isn’t that helpful?!”
“…no… on the contrary… Astlan and I granted Ashfon not blessings but curse…”
“…”
“It made him hate liars because of many circumstances. So many people lied to him causing the bell to ring so many times that he became sick of it later in his life…”
“…resulting in his agitating distrust of everyone?”
“…Yes… it was… a mistake… I hate myself… for it…”
“…”
I don’t know what to say… what she is saying is that… her blessing caused Fon-nii to distrust people and hate them…
But… there’s no point in emphasizing that now…
“Let’s move one please… what happened at that time…”
“And at that time… I am pregnant with Astlan’s second child…”
“A second child?! Wait!”
“?”
“Along with your long generation of lineage, you and Astlan had another child?!”
“Yes. “
“Absurd…”
“I know. But… I love Astlan and it was fine for me.”
“…”
“When that child was born…”
“…”
“When that child was born… I have taken it… to another… plane of world and time… to your world…”
“Then… what did you do with that child?”
“I… left that child in an orphanage that catches my attention…”
“…no…”
“The name of the orphanage is Lionheart…”
“…”
I was shaken.
I can’t speak.
I can’t utter a word.
I am dumbfounded.
“You are… genuinely my child… you and Nil…”
“M-mother…”
My hand reaches out to her trembling…
She also tries to reach out to me…
Mother…
I put out my hands and…
“WHY THE HELL DID YOU JUST LEFT ME THERE?!”
“Uwaah!!! This is the third time you are pulling it!!!”
“YOU COULD HAVE EVEN WAITED FOR A TWO OR THREE YEARS!!!”
“*sob* I have a reason for doing it! And I really thought we are going to be emotional!!!”
“WHAT WOULD THAT REASON BE THEN?!”
“P-PLEASE *hic* stop pulling it! It’s going to snap!!”
“…”
I let go of her hair again as she tears up immediately when I always do that…
It kind of feels relieving when I do that.
“I was… a fugitive… so I need to take you somewhere…”
“Fugitive? Is that the reason… you have those shackles?”
“Yes…I can’t tell you the reason why… but… do you believe me?”
“I believe you… I think you are too dumb to make a complicated lie like that…”
“Dumb?! Fueeh?!”
“Haa… is there any more you can say?”
“Uwaahh... You are being cold to me…”
“As I told you… it’s all sudden… and treating you like a mother suddenly… feels weird…”
“Ah… I see… too cruel…”
“So, is there more you can say?”
“I have.”
“…”
“Astlan actually had two more wives.”
“Eh? EH?!”
“Yes!~ I believe you have already met one of your sisters… your sister technically in that body…”
“EH?!”
“It was eleven years ago, Astlan impregnated The elven queen, Miss Hinoki Prasiolite, and the Beast General , Miss Izuna!”
“What the F…!!!”