179 – Amnesia-6
“…How do you explain this?”
As a mother, Silica was aware of how serious the problem was.
That’s right, because this question was related to the parents who were separated from each other.
That’s also twisted…
“I like things simple right now… To simply say that Mr. Reynald’s mother has been cloned and two of her corpses are kept…”
“Are you insane? Rios.”
Even a mother who loves her son could not allow this.
Even if the summary is good, no one will be able to calm down if this complicated situation is blown into a fastball.
“…But how…”
No amount of refinement could possibly soften this explanation.
The subjects that are obligatory to talk about are ‘Resurrection of Mother’ and ‘Two Mothers’. And ‘Chimera remodeling’ and ‘corpse dissection’.
The essence of the content itself was a sensitive and dangerous material that would go into basics.
“First of all, luck…”
“What are we going to do?”
And, unfortunately, Leonardo lacked patience more than at other times.
“Don’t be shy, just explain. I will listen.”
“…Yes!?”
It was a proposal in preparation for the previous hostile attitude. Everyone looked at ‘Raynald’ in astonishment.
“I’d rather speak properly than purify myself. It’s frustrating on my part too. Also, looking like an idiot pisses me off.”
It was a cheeky attitude, but it was a good news for the party.
If Leo said that, then they had the opportunity and right to speak properly.
“…That’s… That’s why… This is a little, complicated…”
Even so, Ariasviel broke out in a cold sweat and his lips trembled.
It was also a disprove that this subject was so difficult to bring up even though they were forced to wear arms.
“…Leo, no, Mr. Reynald’s parents…”
“Ren, is my biological mother alive?”
That word came out of Leo’s mouth first.
A middle-aged man who separated from his parents when he was 10 years old and thought he had died for 40 years said that before.
“…How…”
“You guys can hardly lie. It’s me, so I’m not there either.”
I let out a small sigh filled with old memories.
“…That’s… I don’t know if he’s actually alive…”
Ariasviel spat out a vague explanation without confidence.
“…Is that so?”
However, it was worth talking about at the point where the certain ‘death’ changed to ‘disappearance’.
“This is good information for severance pay. Say it.”
Chewing bitterness, Leonardo looked at Ariaspil.
* * *
The story was explained at length.
The identity of the existence called Ren was still unknown, and she was currently in the process of finding information and identifying it.
But the story didn’t take long for Leonardo.
I speculated that it was a phenomenon that occurred not because I listened to the story casually, but because I was deeply immersed in the information itself.
“…Huh…”
After the explanation, Leonardo let out a soft, dejected exclamation. Then, without much agitation, he looked up blankly at the ceiling and exhaled deeply.
[…I’m not surprised.]
I didn’t notice the sage’s words, but everyone seemed to agree with that opinion. Rather, when he heard that the Senate had been slaughtered, he reacted more passionately.
“…I am speechless because I am stunned.”
[If you don’t believe me…]
“If you hear that your parents, whom you haven’t seen for about 10 years now, or 40 years in my era, suddenly returned after being cultivated as chimeras, you’ll even curse. Since he is a knowledgeable sage, he might know.”
Summarizing the current situation in one sentence, and at the same time mocking the sage, everyone could not say anything.
I thought maybe Leo didn’t want to talk, but he opened his mouth.
“…Can you believe it?”
“Because it is not a story that can be taken lightly like a salary increase. That doesn’t mean you guys are cheating.”
Leo’s words were right.
It wouldn’t be strange to be shocked or excited just to hear that the parents you thought were dead might be alive.
The current story was a hell that even torn ethics and memories to pieces.
It was so great that I could say that calmly sighing was a talent.
“For more information… We finished the investigation on the corpse, and are currently interpreting the data of the Red Pagoda at the Mage Tower, so if you wait a bit, you’ll find out the full story…”
After defeating the red tower owner, the traitor to the Mage Tower, with Leonardo at the center, the commotion was arduously settled.
Of course, the damage to the Mage Tower was a problem that could not be easily recovered, but with Eileen’s swift command, the solution was carried out sequentially.
Thanks to that, the corruption of the Red Tower owner was revealed, and her research materials were found through the pursuit of magic executioners and heresy interrogators.
“…Give me the Red Tower…Well, all the main members of the Mage Tower died after that day, and there were no proper successors to her. However…”
Leonardo immediately rolled his eyes and glared at her at a strange point.
“…No matter how you think about it, it’s strange. The situation is inconsistent.”
{Do you mean lie?}
“It doesn’t make sense to the point where you want to believe it’s a lie.”
Rather than being sarcastic, it was more of a self-deprecating tone because I was full of energy.
Leo’s rolling eyes eventually turned to Ain.
“Kid, you definitely said you were a familiar of the Mage Tower, right?”
Ain’s hard heart trembled with anxiety because it was a car that had already had the information that it was a familiar horse.
After all, Ren’s Chimera was completed because Ain came out, so there was nothing strange about venting her resentment or anger.
“…This is your familiar. I always keep that in mind…”
Nevertheless, Ain remembered that fact and calmed down her newly awakened feelings.
She is aware that she is not human after all. Even if Leo insisted that he was not his son, he could humbly accept it.
It was just… It was just a delay in the processing speed of external information.
“I’m sorry… I didn’t call you to notice. She’s not asking to be held accountable.”
Leo reassures Ain while purifying his language, albeit clumsily. The reason why he noticed the girl’s fear despite the outward expressionlessness must be because the two were not in an ordinary master-servant relationship.
“You sure said you took me out when I was about 16, right?”
“Exactly 18 years old, but roughly correct.”
“And you didn’t appear in my episode?”
“…I can’t be sure, but that’s why I’m assuming that the chimera is not configured.”
“…Even so, it’s strange…”
What Leonardo wanted to point out was not the existence of subhumans, but the contradiction of causal relationships.
“How strange…”
[…Certainly I still don’t understand.]
The only person who followed Leo’s point was the wise man, yet others have not caught the clue of the contradiction.
Soon, Leonardo pointed out a part that he had not taken for granted until now.
“At the time I live, I couldn’t even find a corpse, let alone a chimera. That’s why it’s awkward.”
“…That’s because I couldn’t find a human, so I couldn’t complete my research…”
From noble mtl dot com.
“No, it’s strange that I didn’t come up with any information even though I completely destroyed the vampire with the rod.”
Obviously it was bizarre.
It was obviously awkward that not even a handful of clues about Ren were left in the previous episode.
In particular, it was a strange situation that Leonardo, who handled the vampire load at the time, did not hear any words or information.
“And it’s strange that the owner of the red pagoda is a traitor.”
“…That’s not it. Jane Narsha, the owner of the red tower, definitely joined hands with Mine. She can tell by fighting herself.”
Rios and Aria, who objected to her, and even though she lost her memory, Leonardo himself can tell because he directly dealt with her who fell.
The lord of the Red Tower, Jane Narsha, was an obvious traitor, a renegade with no room for defense.
“No, not this episode. It’s my turn.”
“…Did you mean… Not in the 1st playthrough?”
“Unless I have dementia in the future, there is no way I won’t catch the owner of the red pagoda right away.”
As she said, if she had recognized the fact that her enemy tower master had betrayed her in the first playthrough, Leo would have immediately excluded or punished her.
Even if he hid it in the Mage Tower or Eileen hid it, it was absurd that he, who had the knowledge of the distant future, did not know such a treacherous criminal.
“…Certainly…That’s…”
“Even if the episodes have changed, there are too many things I don’t understand.”
[But you did a lot.]
“Could it be because of the butterfly effect…!”
“It’s none of my business what happens.”
“Yes Leo, no Mr. Reynolds, I don’t know…”
Soon Ariasviel stopped talking.
Others also froze at Leonardo’s sudden declaration of inaction.
“…Suddenly why…”
“Suddenly? I originally heard this information as a ‘severance pay’.”
Everyone forgot as Leo calmly listened to the story.
Leonardo himself insisted on leaving the family from the beginning.
“…Does this look like someone else’s business? Your parents…!”
“Parents? Okay. Well done once darkness.”
Leonardo widened his blue eyes at eye level with Chris.
“Do you easily call a girl who abandoned her child after the age of 10 a parent? Is it because it resembles your favorite proverb? A lion raises its children by throwing them off a cliff?”
When Chris looked into Leo’s eyes, he couldn’t make an excuse. It may have been an unanswerable wound for Chris, who enjoyed the life of an aristocrat and took parental love for granted.
“Leo… Reynald…!”
“Or is this what the family head wants to say?”
Leonardo stealthily took a pack of his cigarettes out of Chris’s pocket and held them up.
“Even if it is abandoned, it will still contain the blood of a monster…”
Spontaneously, he took out a cigar, cut it open with his bare hands, and lit it in an instant.
“Huh… It’s natural for me, as a child of monster parents, to win.”
Smoking a cigar and with a rather malicious interpretation, Leonardo drove Reinhardt’s party.
They couldn’t say anything at the approaching malice that was cruel to Reinhardt, who pursued the right.
Not because malice is truly evil.
“I didn’t expect it anyway.”
He did not dare to refute because his heart was so scarred that he could not see it.
“You guys, Reinhardt, aren’t even prepared to get dirty.”
Leonardo let out a sharp sneer as he pressed his cigar to the table.
“…Well then…”
“Wait a minute.”
There was a girl who approached the heart of Leonardo, who had only scars.
“…You don’t have anything to talk about anymore? Warrior?”
It was Ariaspil. She grabbed Leonardo’s wrist as he was about to leave and met his empty eyes.
“Ah, it’s not like she’s going to catch up with the fact that her mother came back from hell, right? Then really…”
“Don’t you want me to win?”
These words brought Leonardo’s red eyes into focus.
“…I told you that you are my goal, just as you are my goal.”
“…So? Do you want to duel?”
Leo raises his eyes in amazement,
“That’s how we get it.”
But the girl’s spirit was strong.
“… Ha…”
A sigh comes out again, but Leonardo’s attitude of scratching his head as if in trouble proves that it is contrary to the sigh he first let out.
“Why are these useless parts the same…”
“Why? Are you scared?”
A repulsive expression that a hero is not likely to do, and should not be.
The family was shocked, but more than that, Leo was shocked.
“…Ha…hahahaha…!”
Laughter soon followed, but this time it was a completely different smile from the first one.
“Fun. Good. I won’t give in to trivial provocations.”
Even if he said that, an arrogant and pleasant smile remained on Leonardo’s face.
“Instead, if I just do it, I will lose myself.”
Leonardo’s arm drives Aria like a hunting wolf.
“I will cooperate with you if you lose.”
Then they reached the wall and heard the sound of a collision.
“But if you win.”
Leo’s body wrapped around Arya as if swallowing it. Her intimidation made Arya feel her spirits slowly freeze.
“I will humiliate and violate you like a dog. Even if you beg me to kill you, I will rape you until I am satisfied.”
At those words, the air instantly froze again.
“Isn’t that fair? From what I’ve seen before, both the mind and the body are ripe for eating.”
Of course, Leo thought it was an illusion, but it didn’t matter.
Looking at it now, Aria and her future self should have a stronger bond than colleagues.
If I could break it by forcefully raping it, I would be satisfied.
‘…’
And Arya thought.
‘Should I surrender…?’
Leonardo was still mistaken.