Chapter 220 – Episode 220. Dave’s Mama(1)
Ten days or so of staying in the village of Orcs.
In the meantime, Heira has been carrying out her teachings under the protection of her race, Melia.
Her teachings were only about taking care of children, but those experiences piled up and helped her control the spirits.
Although they have only lived for about 100 years, unlike elves who spend their entire lives meditating and hiding, the concentration they have forged through hunting has reached a level that is not inferior to elves who have lived for centuries.
‘Spirits…’
Heira put her hand on Dave’s head and focused her powers on her own mind.
She feels the mana that permeates the air and the earth, the tiny beings that exist in the mana that flows through her will, and she tries to contact them with the mana she controls.
Of course, even if she uses the elf’s delicate concentration, she can only communicate with the spirits.
If that conflict doesn’t bring out the hearts of the spirits, it’s impossible for her to achieve what she wants from them.
‘I feel it. Spirits.’
Spirits are freewheeling and immature.
Because they are so small, they are dark in the world, and that is why they are so easily drawn to contact with them.
Its disposition is like that of a child. In order to bring them together and induce the phenomenon they want, it is a premise that the person who wants to share sympathy with them has tolerance to embrace countless children.
‘Dear Dave.’
Heira had such qualities.
The girl who embraced her tribal characteristics intact and awakened her love at a young age has always lived her life endlessly contemplating how to express her own love.
‘Can you help me get in Dave?’
The spirits responding to that unwavering will immediately adapt and move consistently, starting to contact Dave’s unconscious mana.
A clash of will and will. Interfering with other people’s mana is not easy because of that, but the fine control ability exerted by the spirits is achieved at a much smaller level than such a clash of will.
If you can draw them out, it won’t be difficult to infiltrate the opponent’s consciousness.
Heira, who had been taught by Melia, knew very well that this was an area that even a child who did not have all of her ego could do.
‘Can spirits be used for childcare?’
‘So~ no matter how clumsy they are at handling mana, all living things unconsciously draw mana around them.’
Children who are easily excited and easily frightened because they do not know anything, become calm in an instant as their minds are calmed down by the power of the spirits that have infiltrated their unconscious.
If she did exactly what she did, it would certainly be possible to interfere with Dave’s mind, which had degenerated into her childlike state.
‘More than just controlling… If you enter Dave’s dream…’
Dave, who is in a nightmare, goes directly into the nightmare and saves it.
To that end, Heira’s closed eyes, which focused repeatedly, soon began to unfold a different landscape than before.
-Sureuk, sureuk.
The faint afterimage gradually changed into a clearer one, and soon a heterogeneous sight appeared in front of me.
“… Dave.”
Standing beneath the plain beneath the dark night sky, Heira took her foot towards the shadow in front of her and shouted her lover’s name in her mouth.
“Dave, are you here?”
Please be assured that you have full contact with his mind.
And hoping that my sleeping lover would answer her call.
“Oh my goodness… This must have been a guest.”
However, it was not Dave who responded to the voice, but a woman who quietly looked down at Dave, who was crouching with her back turned to her seat.
“… Who are you?”
A naked woman with no strings on. However, Heira felt familiar with him.
In addition to her long golden hair, her skin color was also dyed black.
“… Well, who am I?”
Before long, she turned her back from her seat and exposed her naked body to her Heira.
“Before asking who the other person is, it is the duty to introduce yourself first. Little child, if it’s okay, could you introduce yourself first?”
Even so, her face showed her composure as an adult. Facing her as she smiled as she placed her hand on her cheek, Heira felt her tension and responded with her sincere voice towards him.
“Ruler.”
A problem that Heira considers very important to herself.
“Not small.”
“… Uh?”
“Not small! Me, my chest is smaller than Celica’s, but it’s not small… Bigger than the kids…”
“… Uh, I wasn’t talking about the chest.”
“Ooh, ooh…”
“Mi, sorry! Since you’ve done something wrong, why don’t you stop crying for now?”
She is a mysterious woman who approaches Heira, who looks as if she will burst into tears at any moment.
After hearing her other names, Heira barely stopped her tears and looked up at her as she approached herself.
“Huh, you’re a good kid.”
She then gently bends her own waist to meet Heira at her eye level.
Her face showed the same kindness she had seen in Melia.
“Yes, kid. Could you tell her sister your name?”
She has always admired her.
Generous, like her mother, with boundless love for a child who needs her own guidance.
“… It’s hey you are?”
“Call me Miriam.”
Miriam. That was her name
Heira was her first name.
She was unconscious when the name was first mentioned, and she never had a chance to come across anything related to Dave after that.
“Are you Dave’s mother?”
But I could guess.
What she radiated was obviously the same as Melia emphasized, and she had been revealing that vibe to Dave even before she entered this place.
“Huh, do you see that?”
“… Because I feel like her mother.”
But she was, so she felt strange.
Why is Dave curled up in her seat with his back turned, even though he is loved by her?
Why is she cutting herself off from her world without even realizing she’s here?
“Is it you who made Dave like that?”
The reason is clearly in front of me.
It is because of the being who is assumed to be Dave’s mother.
“Dave, are you holding him here?”
Gradually realizing this, Miriam opened her eyes and began to draw a bitter smile on her lips at Heira’s sharp voice, which gradually began to show her wariness.
“Hold on… That’s not a very good expression.”
It’s as if you don’t like the current words.
“No wonder a mother loves her son.”
She, who showed her feelings without regret, lifted her bent upper body upright and continued her words in a non-trivial tone.
“It would not be strange for a mother to see a fragment of her husband in her son…”
“… Husband?”
“Yes, it’s only half, but I’m a child who inherited half of the person I love.”
The sadness, the longing, the nostalgia, the love, the way I look down at my son.
“And also someone I will never see again.”
And the obsession towards the remaining existence.
Eventually, turning her back on Heira, she turned to Dave, who was crouching down again, and her fingertips gradually began to reach out to him.
“Dave, let go.”
What stopped her fingertips was the small voice of an uninvited guest.
“Everyone is in trouble. Because Dave spreads her powers while knocking her unconscious…”
Even so, it is scary to show the intention of resistance clearly! There was a sound and the earth shook, and with it the light of the moon in the sky began to become clearer.
No, it was close enough to see the light clearly.
As if you are guided by the power of those who exist here.
“… From me.”
In the voice that sat down with him, the previous softness was gone.
“Did you come here to take my son from me?”
Squeak, squeak.
The darkness rising from the shaking ground begins to cover her body.
Her naked body with exposed skin is covered with clothes, as if to highlight her existence.
“… Dave’s mama.”
“Never do that.”
Before long, the one who descended to this place was the past, when she was active as a witch.
Even though it is a body that is nothing more than energy without any form, in this mental world, it can move with its ego. She can use that ego to fully embody her past powers.
“This is the child I finally met after wandering in the dark for a long time. My regrets, the reason I existed in this world, I finally…”
Showing off her strength, she appeared in front of Heira and began to draw a warm smile on her lips.
“Now we can finally become one, and no one can interfere with that.”
“…”
“… But if you want to push me away, show your strength once more.”
Eventually, the tip of the staff in her hand is aimed at Heira’s small body.
“I’m going to prove that you’re strong enough to push me away and protect this child.”
The power of a dreamer who has lived for thousands of years.
The ability to refine and handle it will exert power comparable to that of the Dream Demon Queen only in the spirit world.
At this moment, Heira was definitely feeling that strong desire to protect her own love with such a huge power.
“… Really?”
Even so.
I didn’t think that the action revealed at this moment was her transparent sincerity.
“Dave’s mama, can you fight for Dave?”
That it is nothing but a bluff.
That true intention stemmed from something other than monopoly toward him.
“Yes, I would do anything for this child. Because this child is my everything. If this child accepts me, everything will be resolved, so I can’t get in the way of that now…”
“It is not so.”
With such confidence, she can resolutely vomit her denial toward her sincerity, which is emphasized over and over again.
“… What?”
“Because Dave’s mama is kind. I won’t do anything to get Dave in trouble.”
A power that spreads in all directions.
Even at this moment, Heira resists the power that tries to infiltrate my mind.
No, not even resistance. Even at this moment, the spirits led by her generosity block her power of dream magic, and she allows her to express what she wants to express.
“Yeah, I can feel it.
Yeah, that’s what she’s feeling too.
No matter what the attitude of the person in front of me came from, it can never be called an illusion.
“Are you in pain? After coming into Dave’s mind, you must have felt the pain Dave felt.”
Flinch. Trembling hands.
Heira, who did not miss that response, narrowed the distance with her and continued her words.
“Is that why you are anxious? If you don’t give me a little more power, something like that will happen to Dave again.”
“…”
“… She was worried that she wouldn’t collapse without her, so that’s why she’s afraid, right?”
-Suddenly.
The moment the power that weighed down the surroundings subsided.
Soon, when peace came to the space, a shadow began to fall on Miriam’s face as she bowed her head.
“… Really.”
As if even the heart to be hostile to the current generous attitude had disappeared.
“Really, you are a considerate child.”
As if this child realized that at least she wasn’t going to harm her son.
“… Because it’s Mama.”
And that’s never wrong.
Heira loves him, and since she started with him, she sees the world she lives in differently.
“Because I am everyone’s mama, I want you to understand too.”
And that trivial trigger has led to her maternal love, which now embraces everything she loves him.
Himself and the warrior party.
Even if it is such an abstract existence, created only by the lingering feelings and desires of the dead.
“Can I tell you your story?”
“…”
A bitter laugh without words.
The answer came back after a while.
