Chapter 648 – A. A ? ─ Ceres Talks to His Mother His
The princess doesn’t know much about magic.
Since she was young, she tried to use magic along with Arisa many times, but she always ended up making a mess or failing miserably, with pain as if something in her body was broken.
So the princess doesn’t know much about magic. I know the basics of her story in theory, but does she know much about magic? She was a person who, when asked, could confidently say that she knew nothing.
“Ugh, ugh… Vomiting, magical power that makes me want to vomit…”
The princess, covered in cold sweat, felt the magic power emanating from her as the unknown ‘hexagon-shaped something’ was thrown to the ground and covered her mouth and nose with both hands.
The concentration of her magic that filled the room was so strong that it felt as if her mouth and nose had been immersed in a huge pool made of magic potion.
─Pajijijijik! Pajik! It’s so bad!!!
“Oh, my mother said she wanted to see me? Well, that can’t be possible! Satan! I don’t know what kind of pun you were talking about! You’ve gone overboard, thinking about selling out my mother’s name!”
“No. Unlike you, I did not sell her mother’s name. Please stay still.”
Satan, straightening his back in the darkness, speaks slowly.
“Mother wants to talk to you, Virgilia. Don’t be rude and dress neatly.”
“In response to this ridiculous threat, I—!!!”
Ceres stretches out his right hand, which holds his scythe, and points it at Satan.
A magic circle emitting purple light was created in an instant, but no magic was used.
The unpleasant magic that was filling the room disappeared in an instant! And disappeared, and a hologram appeared in front of Ceres.
‘Well, the author is Ceres’ mother…?!’
The princess, who was hiding behind her back, swallowed her saliva. In front of Ceres, there was a being with a good physique that rivaled that of Emperor Jupiter.
Unfortunately, the being was wearing pitch black robes. So I couldn’t tell what kind of face she had or how beautiful she was.
It was impossible to even examine her body. All he could tell was that a being with his entire body covered in black cloth had appeared in front of Ceres.
“Uh… Uh, mother…”
『Vergilia. It looks like he wasn’t satisfied with his disappointing rebellion last time. I remember that we talked a lot that day. How sentimental your opinion is, scientifically unrealizable nonsense obsessed with morality and emotions.』
The princess swallowed her saliva as the voice filled her room, and Ceres tightened her grip on her scythe.
“That’s because you didn’t read the report clearly! The Earth is changing! The countless people on the Earth are humans just like us! There is no need to persecute them and see them as objects to be exterminated! “
Unlike her pleading Ceres, the woman in the hologram is not even breathing.
『My poor daughter. You are now in a big delusion. Did you not have enough time to learn science and history?』
“That’s not true! Mother! Are you telling me that everything you learn in class is wrong? I saw it with my own eyes! I learned something by walking on earth with these legs!”
Ceres took one look at her princess and swallowed her saliva.
“They are not bugs or trash taking over our hometown like your mother said!”
『Vergilia. That opinion is too focused on emotion. Don’t you know that too? The beings on earth are creatures that look the same as us, but they are fundamentally different. Even if you call them a sub-race, they have nothing to say.』
“Mother, I am not like that now…”
『So far, I have dissected countless pieces of trash caught from the ground more than 100 times. Each time, there was only one conclusion I could come to. They and we are different. Why do you try to turn your eyes away from this clear and obvious fact? Virgilia?』
The princess held Ceres’ hand tightly as the atmosphere weighed heavily on her.
Ceres, encouraged by that small act, looks up at his mother from below.
“My mother always says that. It’s different. That’s right. There was a time gap of more than 10,000 years between them and us that we can’t take lightly. We, who lived completely separate lives above and below ground, were bound to be different.”
♠Ah, Vergilia. I wasted so much blood and time realizing that simple, simple fact.』
“But Mom, it doesn’t matter if it’s different. It doesn’t matter if you look at the people on earth and say things like Homo sapiens junk and all that! Do you know what that means?”
Ceres strongly grabbed the princess’s hand and pulled her by the waist.
“How foolish is it to stay above and below ground and fight, hoping to exterminate each other? We are all the same people after all! We can all live happily together!”
『Vergilia. I really don’t understand your hobby. Why do we have such feelings towards trash that looks just like us? I can’t figure out what kind of negative effect this unspeakable behavior with them had on your brain.』
“Mother!! Give me a chance! If you give me a chance to realize the plan I showed you last time, I will prove it! You always say that I am trying to do something impossible out of emotion and sentimentality, but no! I can do it! “
Ceres’ mournful cry prompted her mother to silence her.
『You seem to have gone crazy, Virgilia.』
“Mother! That’s not it!”
『What is your brilliant plan? Are you saying that we can live in harmony with the trash on earth? I think I need to study genetics again. Didn’t I tell you which side the child born between them and us would be closer to?』
“Ah, children… They are closer to humans on earth…”
『That’s why! Because of that simple and obvious fact! We must kill all the scum on earth! Do you know how shameful it is to call them Homo sapiens like us?!』
“Mother! Like that…!”
『What you do! Our great humanity survived the ‘great mistake’! It’s something to offer to the scum of the earth! You are such a fool that you are causing the destruction of our species called Homo sapiens sapiens!』
With her lightning-like shout, the mother of Ceres holds out her hand.
“Genetically… Ugh! We’re closer! But that doesn’t mean we’re gone!”
『No, it means disappearing. To our compatriots who have spent 10,000 years or more underground without sunlight, and to us who have waited for the time of salvation, you are recommending the means of erasing all traces of our species ourselves.』
“There are already tens of millions of people living on earth?! Find them all! Are you saying that you will kill them all, as if erasing all evidence of their existence? Mother!”
『Vergilia. There is a reason we survived the ‘Great Mistake’. There is a reason why we have done our best to preserve human culture and civilization until today. Your actions are very foolish.』
Ceres, realizing that her outstretched hand was caressing his chin, closed his eyes for a moment.
『Vergilia. My lovely daughter. Let’s end this long wandering. What you are doing is selling our humanity to monsters that take on the appearance of humanity.』
“Mother… Mother really…”
Ceres let out a small laugh, swallowed his saliva and opened his eyes.
She immediately grabs the princess’s waist, who is holding her hand, and hugs her, stepping behind her.
“Mother doesn’t know anything.”
『Vergilia…』
“Mother…”
Ceres, who wanted to say something nice, couldn’t.
Everything she knows she learned from her mother. She was powerless to refute the mother’s lengthy explanation of how terrible it was to interact with humans on earth.
“I’ve been listening to you since a while ago. You’re really talking stupid nonsense, aren’t you?”
The princess gently hugs Ceres in her arms.
『I never thought the day would come when I would hear nonsense spoken by a product of tragedy.』
“I wasn’t interfering because it was a family conversation, but if you’re talking nonsense like that, I can’t stay quiet either, right?”
The princess speaks and grabs Ceres.
“With the species disappearing and all, Homo is talking about it. Are you an idiot? She said she was the mother of Ceres, so I thought she was smart, but she is ignoring such an obvious fact.”
『How dare trash…』
“Listen!!! A child born between a married couple does not perfectly resemble either the mother or the father!”
The demons standing in the dark, including Satan, chuckle and laugh at the confidently shouted words.
In their opinion, the princess’s words were not logical. According to their common sense, it was nonsense.
Haha! Laugh as much as you want! But that’s right! You’re wrong! Even if you look at Ceres, you and Ceres won’t look exactly the same! Their eyes will be different! Their heights will be different! And the things they’re good at will be different!”
『…』
“Children are inherently different from their parents! Isn’t that natural?! If you and we have children, you will disappear? Then, won’t we disappear too? That’s what children are like!”
The princess shouted and roughly pulled Ceres into a hug.
“Don’t be afraid of things like that! Not even demons! Not even humans! Why don’t you know the self-evident fact that when two people love each other, another being is always born that heads towards the future!”
“..? Mother! Venus is right! We don’t need to be afraid! Just as horns, wings, and tails appeared to us underground! This is a natural change! Just like it snows in winter and is hot in summer. There is no need to be afraid of this obvious fact!”
After hearing the two girls’ cries, the mother remained silent for a long time and then opened her mouth.
『Vergilia. Do you love humans?』
“Yes, Mother! I love you! My sisters underground! And everyone on earth! We are the same human beings!”
『In that case, I guess I should punish you. You will hate humans forever from now on.』
