Honestly it’s pretty than scary how fast I grow up, I think I look about… 2 or 3 years old? Roughly? Maybe 4? I still have no idea how old I actually am though, didn’t exactly keep tracks of time, anyway I think I should be able to walk out that door at this point, I mean with those two around I shouldn’t have anything to worry about right? That should be the case. Would be nice if moms are here right now, I wanna learn more about this world, I mean there are some lingering informations in the back of my head but I’ll rather receive a clear explanation.

*Open*

Ah! Both of them are here! That’s great! Time to ask them.

“Moms! I wanna go out!” I said excitedly like a little kid that I certainly am right now. Both of them looked at me slightly surprised by what I said, but doesn’t look like they’ll object.

“Sure, you can come with us” Kaa-san as so and gesture at mom to do something.

“Yeah yeah I get it” Mom said in a deadpan tone.

*Lift*

Ah, she lift me up and carry me, not sure how to feel about that honestly.

“Alright, let’s go see the castle!” Huh? Castle? What? What did she mean by that? Maybe I shouldn’t think about it and just go with the flow, she’s walking out of the black door, along with mom and I, what I saw was a dark hallway, really spooky and what you’d expect from an evil lair.

Mom is a vampire, being evil isn’t out of the question, but she certainly doesn’t act evil, so that’s not it. Maybe it’s her superior who have such aesthetic, not a good one for sure. Moms walk along the dark hallway for a while then enter a giant room, there’s a throne high up in the room, look very imposing, but there’s no one there, so now what?

“This place is the throne room, obviously, and there’s also a balcony over there” That’s a very barebone explanation, even if technically there’s not much to this place. Anyway is this place seriously ours? A place that look like a giant castle?

“Is this part of our home?” I asked.

“Certainly is, I’m the one owning it at this moment, not that it’s luxurious or anything, even if this place is a castle there's really only us three that occupy it, and the only servants we really have is my unit, and they’re just a bunch of muscle brains anyway” Mom said not sounding very proud of herself, isn’t this place more befitting of a royalty than just a general?

“Well, us two can manage this just fine, I mean we don’t exactly rule anything anyway, and this place existed for a long time now and isn’t really inherited by anyone, it’s sort of the case of the highest in power taking it, and Vermilla is the one highest in power here, there’s no one in higher position than her at this point, also with only us three the managing cost isn’t much, and both of us are powerful enough to take care of this place single handedly” Kaa-san smugly said, so what is this place actually? Do people outside of here really don’t expect us to do anything?

“Um, then there’s no one who’ll took the throne?” I curiously asked, I doubt there won’t be anyone who wouldn’t took the throne and rule over whoever is down there, will they be a bunch of demons? Or humans? How are we related to all of this?

“That’s… depending on you” Mom said in a somewhat stressed tone, what? Also she’s putting me down, letting me see the room more clearly by myself.

“Maova, you know about the… confusing memories of yours right?” Kaa-san said in a cautious tone, they get serious all of a sudden, and this make it clears they know what’s wrong with me, something I want to know, I just have to answer and they’ll surely tell me.

“Yes, and I want answer” I stated.

“Well, if you want to know then it’s fine, I’ll tell you everything” Kaa-san said in a somewhat chilling tone, what’s going on? She then gesture to Mom.

“This world we are in at this moment, there are two factions, one of human, one of demi-human, due to the discrimination demi-humans received throughout the years, they have went to a desperate measure to make sure humans will not oppress them anymore, they use magic and many sacrifice to create an existence powerful and terrifying, the Demon Lord, the demi-humans have been branded as demons, even though they aren’t, so they think about creating an actual demon to destroy humanity, but while they succeed in creating their weapon, it also bring about their destruction, as they can’t control this single-minded creature. While humankind is devastated by this being, they counter attack with their own weapon, the Hero, using their defeated members as sacrifice, they created an existence similar to the Demon Lord to strike it down. That’s the story of this whole situation, this world is plagued by discrimination, destruction, and cycle of revenge, and that’s not all” Mom said, serious about everything she has said, so this world have the Demon Lord against the Hero, and it cause great destruction that lead to demi-human’s defeat and great loss for the humans, and there’s more to this.

“Both of them are created so their souls will maintain and reincarnated, they’ll both be born again in two centuries, and then the whole thing will start once again, over and over, and never once that the demi-humans come out on top, and they continue to lose everything they have, right now, the place we’re in, is the last of the demi-human settlement, it’s an old settlement that hasn’t been used for a long time and now covered in a thick forest that cannot be easily navigated, the human cannot come here so easily, anyway, it have been two centuries since the last war of the Hero against the Demon Lord, and now the Demon Lord is back, but not like the usual, there has been some tampering” After Kaa-san said that she winked and look at me… wait… does that mean… what I think she means?

“D-Do you mean I’m…” I can’t even let out the word, even though it’s clear to me, that certainly explains something about me, if not necessarily everything.

“Yep, you’re the current incarnation of the Demon Lord, with some of their memories attached” … So that’s how it is, that explains the bloody battle field, the rage I have against them that I used to have… but there’s more to my situation, I know that much, this can’t clearly be everything. If I really am the Demon Lord shouldn’t I be going on about killing every human? Not about what my purpose is, that’s like the opposite.

“What about everything else? The rest of my memories? What about them?” I asked her flat out, I think she knows about it.

“About that, to make sure the Demon Lord no longer cared about humanity’s destruction, I did a ritual that combined the soul of the Demon Lord with the soul of a human that is from a different place and time, by doing so I tempered the Demon Lord’s directive, of course I could’ve just deleted said directive directly, but as there are wandering soul about I was thinking about merging them together and see what’ll happen, and that results in you my cute little daughter” Well, that explains the discrepancy, but not how I was born, like how come I was born without a dad?

“Then how did I actually born? I don’t have a dad didn’t I?” I asked flat out.

“Well yes and no, Demon Lord can born with just the mother alone, as messed up as that sounds, but I have part in conceiving you as well believe it or not, using my power for such a thing… and after that I put your merged soul there. You’re our daughter and there’s no doubt in my mind, and have you and her as part of a family I never had” She said so about about myself and a bit of her dark past, she talk about the last part by trying to keep it all in with a smile and somewhat condescending tone so no one will look at her with pity, I’m not sure what she have gone through, and I don’t think anybody will ever know, but she’s still someone who cared for me since I got here, and for certainty that won’t change.

“Well, thank you, for raising me, I’m really grateful, for both of you” I said so while bowing down, I take a glance at them and saw them let out a smile for a while, then after that is done I’m still not sure what to do next.

“But… what am I supposed to do? As the Demon Lord? Am I supposed to do something?” I said, concerned about my future in this world, now that I know for certainty that this world is different than before, even with this lingering familiarity I still don’t really know much about this world.

“Don’t be silly, as if we need someone like that to exist in this world, just do what you want in this new world, do you honestly think I could tell my own child to reign over something and wage war against humans? No need for any of that, as long as live your life fully then it’ll be fine, just don’t hurt anyone unnecessarily, of course helping out others is fine too” Kaa-san said, so I can to whatever I want, but I don’t really know what I want, what can I do in this world as the Demon Lord? I don’t really know anything about that, I’m glad I can choose my own future, but I don’t know what to chose.

“But… I don’t know what to do…” I stated so honestly, I want direction in this new world, to know more about it, what exist in this world and what can I possibly do to make a difference. 

“Ah, that can easily be dealt with, we’ll both teach you the way of this world and everything in store, right Vermilla?” Kaa-san said while looking at mom, mom look away instead.

“Indeed, she need guidance that much is certain, regardless of how she was in the past, she’s not that different from a child right now, she certainly needs help, and I’ll give her that” Honestly it feels like she’s saying it while trying to sound cool, but I think I shouldn’t call her out on that, but to get reassurance from my parents… it’s a feeling I never have, honestly I feel very warm, feel safe, feel assured, a feeling I barely ever had, and now I’m basked in it… I feel overwhelmed… I feel like I could cry right now seeing the scene before me, a scene so different than what I used to seeing, I don’t know how to express it to them. Huh? Are these tears? It certainly is, and I’m the one crying, my two mothers certainly saw this as they walk toward me.

*Lift*

Both of them lift me up and embrace me… this feeling… ahhhhhh, so warm, so comforting…

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… What’s going on? Ah, I must’ve cried myself to sleep, how embarrassing… it’s night right now, the outside is so loud for a moment… I have no idea what’s going on outside, hopefully it’ll end soon. Anyway, with everything being said, I feel like my future will be a bright one, one that I can look forward to, no longer am I stuck feeling oppressed and unsure of everything, insecure about how the world will see me, I don’t have to deal with that world anymore, and I can look forward, there might be something that I regret leaving behind that I can’t clearly remember, something that pained me up to now, but I’ll look past that for something more positive.