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"We ca from the stars, born from… whatever we ca from. And every once in a while, I feel this hunger, this endless… hunger."
"Hunger?"
"Yes, a hunger that slowly consus my very sense of self, and I rampage. I destroy, I devour… for dozens, perhaps hundreds of years. Until…"
"Until I am finally satisfied."
"What?!"
"And… This hunger is approaching, I can feel it. It is in its beginning stages, but… in a year or two… it will consu . And… I don't want to hurt you… without realizing… the thing I fear the most now… is myself. Because…"
He held my hands even tighter, as I noticed his aura twisting into countless red eyes crying.
"Because I don't want to lose you…"
"You won't lose !"
"But how do you know that?! I… must eat. And Frank, that human child, possesses imnse cosmic power! If I can devour him… I could satiate my hunger for perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, maybe millions! That's… that's why I must feed on him."
"So it all boils down to that… You should've told this earlier, dad! Why keep it hidden all this ti if you knew it was dangerous?"
"I didn't want to scare you; you were living your own life. Finally at high school, making friends, discovering your own self, loving and being heartbroken… all the things I never experienced, which you now had the privilege of going through… I didn't want to interrupt such an important ti in your life… but I was foolish, as I never realized the very target of my hunger was… soone you loved."
"Now I am in a dilemma… what do I do, Kireina? If I attempt at his life, you will stop … and… what do we do then? Do you want to fight… to fight ? For him? Who… who is more important to you? That boy… or your father?"
"T-This is…"
"Tell , Kireina… please tell !"
"T-That's… no! Stop it!"
I pushed my father back, realizing he was desperate, not acting like himself, letting his own sorrow for mother and his fears for sothing that hasn't even happened consu him.
"Your hunger has just begun and yet you let despair consu you!" I said angrily. "Father, this isn't like you! Are you seriously just giving up now?!"
"A-Ah…!"
His eyes widened, realizing how he had been acting, looking down in disbelief.
"I'm sorry… that wasn't like … I…" Hеlp us оut by rеаding оn М|V|LЕМ5РYR.
"It's… it's okay."
I patted his shoulders.
"Dad… Let's find another way, together."
"Another way? How?"
"I think we can find another way! Perhaps if we find sothing, tasty enough for your hunger… we could satiate it."
"But… That's… how do you even hope to achieve that?!"
"We'll find a way! I've been developing sothing inside of recently."
"I-Inside of you…? Wait, are you pregnant with that brat's…?!"
His face was filled with horror and anger.
"What?! No! That's not it!"
Though I did do it with Frank plenty of tis back in Grand Terra… I could've gotten pregnant if I wanted, but I chose not to, mostly because it's such a bother.
"Don't you have similar powers? It's like a dinsion."
"Ah, yes… I possess sothing similar. I call it the Abyssal Dinsion. An inner world within which I expand as a Domain within my territory, interconnecting various spaces. This is how we can easily move between Domains."
"Yep, that's it! I got that one and I am cultivating so special materials. I call them Divine Treasures, and they're packed full of Chaos and Cosmic Power."
"What?!"
"So, I think we could probably satiate your hunger with a al a day instead, for now! until we can find sothing bigger and juicier."
"T-That's… but how? You're growing… plants made of chaos and cosmic power?! How is that even a thing- not even I can do that!"
"Well, dad, I am special aren't I? We might be of the sa "species" but our powers and how we develop them are different… after all, I am also half Darkwood Fae, I possess a natural affinity with Nature, Life, and Plants."
"…Right," his eyes widened. "I never thought about that before. Is this why you contracted that Yggdrasil Spirit earlier? That little girl."
"Yggdrantia? Yep," I nodded. "She could also help us a lot… See dad? You were panicking way too much, when could have always communicated with … we can solve this together."
"Kireina…" he looked at , filled with emotions. "My daughter!"
He hugged tightly, with his arms and his countless black, chaotic tentacles covered with crimson eyes, which were all crying blood and miasma.
"You're… you're truly my greatest treasure! I thank… I thank your mother for giving birth to you every day…!" He said happily. "Indeed… I was foolish! I thought I could simply carry the burden on my own, that I could hide things from you… but… that's not right. This is… we are family, right?"
"Yeah!" I nodded, kissing his forehead and hugging him tightly. "We are family, dad! We can get through this problem together… so please, believe ! Have… have hope."
"Hope… what a peculiar word…" He smiled, seemingly calr, looking down on the floor. "I suppose I have to… I was once a monster… but since your mother and you appeared in my life, I beca more than what my own body dictated… I am… I am a father, thanks to you."
"Yeah, you've got your own flaws too, we all do but… you're a pretty good dad!" I smiled. "I'm also thankful every day for having such a cool father!"
"Kireina… you're going to make cry a sea of miasma at this point!" He cried, cleaning his tears with his handkerchiefs. "S-So… Uh, those materials, do you have them ready?"
"Yes, I have plenty," I nodded. "We'll experint cooking with them with the help of Araña and maybe we'll need dea too, or ant Alchemist."
"I see… then consider that done, I'll gather the most brilliant minds for that," he nodded. "I'm looking forward to that al… while we look for another solution in the anti."
"Alright!"
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