be honest.

I have imagined many kinds of scenarios when I learned the bad news of my mother.

However, although I have vaguely expected the scene of being able to reunite with my mother alive in this life, I never dared to sketch it in my mind in detail.Because I know very well that the clearer the hope in my heart, once it is shattered, the disappointment and shock that follow will be heavier.

I told myself that I must keep calm at all times on the front line, so I must not allow too strong mental fluctuations.

And the result is...

Facing the good news that fell from the sky——and facing the familiar face my mother had been away for many years, I didn't know what expression to put on for a while.

"..."

Perhaps because of the claustrophobic life on the island for many years, in the past few years, I have grown a lot compared to the past, and even my height has been pulled out, but my mother's appearance has not changed much.

She looked the same, only paler and thinner, but none of this detracted from her jade-clean beauty.

Her beauty is neither bright nor ostentatious, and now she is lying quietly with folded hands in a corner of the cave, like a vine flower hanging silently in no one's place.

Just like the name "Zi", it carries the beauty of tranquility, sadness and desolation, infinite tranquility and sorrow.

Overcoming countless ups and downs and thorns, I finally found her.

"I...mother..."

"Ah, it's better not to touch her for now. Zi's soul is here."

Seeing that I froze in place, the gentle, considerate, understanding, and capable goddess Ai Lei stepped forward, raised the things in her hands and shook them slightly at me——from the shape, it seemed to be a long and narrow shape. birdcage.

The difference from the birdcage is that there are no birds in the cage, but a bunch of weird and bright blue light spots jumping around, as if they have life, wandering around flexibly in it.

"In order to prolong their lives as much as possible, I housed the souls of all human beings underground in the 'gun threshold'. In this way, you don't have to worry about food, oxygen, and health issues, as long as you protect their souls and bodies separately. As long as it is intact. Well, I am a capable goddess!"

Allie explained briefly.Although she is the "hostess of Hades" in Sumerian mythology, she has a calm and elegant demeanor corresponding to it, but if you carefully observe her demeanor and body language, you will find that she is just like a person who introduces her resume during an interview. Female college students are just as nervous.

"I, my gun threshold is very comfortable! How to say, in order to improve the livability of the underground world, so that the dead can live in peace in the underworld, I have thought of many ways? So, don't see it like this I feel that Zi is suffering... By the way, I can still talk to her soul! Do you have anything to say?"

"..."

For some reason, looking at the goddess who was clearly the savior but more nervous than me, my tense spirit gradually relaxed, and my hoarse and dry throat slowly recovered the ability to speak.

"……Mother?"

I bent down in front of the gun sill held by Ellie, and bit by bit, I carefully untied the knots wrapped around the tip of my tongue.

"Is that you? Do you... still know me?"

"..."

The hazy blue halo first paused slightly, then circled up and down, making a series of sounds like wind blowing leaves that ordinary people could not understand, and stopped in place again.

"Well...she said..."

Allie's facial micro-expression became more serious, and now she looks like a high-strung simultaneous interpreter:

"Well, that's right! She said, 'I'm back'. TA-DA-I-MA. I know, that's the one, the Japanese say hello when they come home?"

"……what?"

I couldn't help being startled.

Looking back, in those years when I lived with my mother, every day when she came home from get off work, I would immediately say "Welcome back" to her.At first it was full of joy and anticipation, then it became increasingly confused and confused, and then it was mechanical, indifferent, and step-by-step repetition day after day, and even a little bit of hope was not dared to keep.

Because my mother never said "I'm back" to me.

Thinking about it now, my mother at that time may never have been able to regard me as "family" from the bottom of my heart.

Maybe out of a sense of responsibility, maybe out of a sense of justice, she took me out of this island that nourished evil, and raised me alone.However, I am afraid it is still too difficult for her to regard the place where I live together as "home".

(After all, I belong to that leader...but why is she now?)

"I heard Violet say that."

Facing me who stood there stunned, Ai Lei turned her face to one side awkwardly, frowned as if desperately considering her words, and spoke intermittently.

"Zi said that she originally thought that it would never be possible for anyone to subdue this kind of supernatural criminal group, so she hoped to live alone and cautiously. She felt ashamed of her incompetence and had always harbored psychological trauma, so she was even more unable to face this. The symbol of incompetence is you. But later, she learned of the existence of the 'Supernatural Secret Service'..."

"'How stupid I was in the past. I don't need to live in the shadow of that man all my life, just defeat him and move on.'——At that time, she thought so. So Zi decided to take a risk Contact the Secret Service with the risk of identity exposure. No one can guarantee that there will be no eyeliner planted by 'that person' in the Secret Service."

"...So, Mother didn't tell me anything."

I whispered.

What I see as disappearing from the world and leaving without saying goodbye is actually a lonely journey full of dangers and narrow escapes.

She made up her mind from the beginning.

If you don't come back... then you don't come back.

"of course."

Ai Lei nodded, "Even when she called the police, she didn't reveal a single word about you. If it weren't for that, you would have been discovered by those people before you joined the Secret Service."

"..."

I lowered my head, watching the halo ups and downs, like a gentle eye.

I can't imagine.

(Mother, what kind of mentality is she in, determined to face the past and once again pick out the scabbed scars in her heart?)

"Zi, she said she wanted to start over."

"...do it all over again?"

"The reason why she didn't commit suicide on the island, but was forced by that person to give birth to you, is because she wanted to live. In other words, you are a child created because of her 'self-preservation' .She saved you because of this—she can't tolerate her selfishness and that person's desires trampling on your life like this. "

"It wasn't Mother's fault."

I asserted without hesitation.

"At any time, the desire [to live] is never wrong. My birth is an unforgivable crime and atrocity, not a mother's responsibility."

"That's what I said. Even so, Zi looks strong and cold, but in fact he is a hopeless good old man."

As if resonating deeply, Allie shook her head helplessly and sighed.

"So she saved you, not because of maternal love, but because she didn't want to be an accomplice who ruined your life and pushed you into the abyss of crime. In the following days, she never regarded you as her own child '."

"I know this……"

And it has already been accepted.

"However."

I don't know where the joy came from, Ai Lei's face was full of brilliance, and she even proudly put one hand on her hip, and declared to me in a firm and high-spirited tone:

"Even though you're not her 'wanted child' and she doesn't love you by blood. But eh, Si? Just one thing - the time you spent with her was real. Even with the clouds hanging over your head , that is also an irreplaceable, jewel-like time."

I suddenly have a feeling.

The smile on the face of the goddess is like a child seeing the ideal happy ending in a fairy tale.

Or, as it were—

"That's why Zi said that he wants to start over. Not to treat you as her child, but as a kind and upright girl who grew up beside her and thought of her wholeheartedly. Even strangers who have never met before Can I become a 'family'? Zi, I want to become a 'family' with you after she settles everything with that person."

——It was like seeing gorgeous flowers in the depths of the desolate and cold underworld.

"…………"

That's the answer.

I don't even dare to dream about it, what I can still get in this life - the answer in the affirmative.

My mother recognized me not because I was her child, but because I became who I am.

My mother regarded me as an independent individual different from her and that man, and affirmed the value of Akane Yuzuki, saying that she [wanted to be a family member with me].

"...Thank you. This is the greatest reward I have traveled all the way."

I bowed my head deeply, deeply to the gun sill.In addition to this sentence, no words can sum up my mood.

Then, I heard a "pop" in my ear.

"...?"

For a moment I thought I had been beaten, but after a few seconds I realized dully that it was Ai Lei who stretched out her hands to hold my cheeks, and turned my face upwards like a switch.

"Listen? Flower trees will never grow in the underworld, nor between your mother and that person. But, Akane, you are a real 'flower'. Even if there is no soil, flowers can bloom in the air Come on. You and Zi's life so far, as a goddess, I can say that it is a beautiful thing."

As if very shy and awkward, and as if she was proud from the bottom of her heart, the blond goddess showed a somewhat jerky, loving smile.

"So, you can hold your head up."

"……Um."

I almost used all my strength to suppress the warm tears welling up in my eyes again.

Then, I was finally able to turn my head and calmly face the warm and quiet light in the gun sill.Probably, this is the so-called "never forget, there must be echoes".

"Welcome back, mother."

……

……

……

"By the way, um, the other pharaohs... didn't come together?"

↑Worried about disturbing the atmosphere of the reunion, Nitocris has been hiding behind the rock and watching secretly

"……sorry."

↑Because I didn't draw Pharaoh and set the phone ringtone as Merlin (instead of Pharaoh's happy laughter), I suddenly felt extremely guilty

"No, it's okay! I just asked a casual question, you don't have to apologize to me!!"

Nitocris's tension seemed to be lower than that of Eileen, and she immediately waved her hand in denial with her face blushing:

"Having saved so many people, will Lord Ozymandias praise me with 'well done', "I didn't shame the pharaoh"... I have thought about this kind of thing, although I have thought about it! However, it’s not for the sake of getting praise…”

"I know."

I couldn't help laughing out loud, "It's the responsibility of the pharaoh and the god of the underworld, right?"

"Right, that is it!"

Nitocris admitted in a panic, and then noticed the smirk I couldn't hide, and the blush that permeated the cheeks rushed to the ears in an instant:

"You, are you making fun of me?! It's so disrespectful, but this is in front of Pharaoh—"

"No, I respect Nito-chan very much. Specifically, the kind that I respect so much that I want to take it home."

"It's really very specific?! But, I completely, I can't tell where the respect is——?!!"

The author has something to say: Hei Zhen: I smell xjb's flirtatious breath, and I'm still typing.jpg

Qian's mother's feelings for Qian are not the usual "mother and daughter". She has neither natural maternal love nor the mentality of being a mother. She has always been strong, and Qian is also Qian in her eyes.If Akane learns badly when she grows up, then there is no fate, and she will part ways with Akane without nostalgia

Ai Lei and Qian Ma have a very good relationship, and have listened to the story for half a year (laughs)

It's going to be an all-out showdown (hands rubbing

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