"Describe the looks of that lady!" He commanded with authority.
"Why are you getting so agitated?" Alia asked. "
"I told you to describe her!"
"Fine! She had silver hair that ca down to her waist; however, she was shorter than . She only ca to my shoulders in height. She had deep blue eyes and a child-like naive face. But she was pretty strong," Alia explained.
"D-did she wear gloves like these?" Lucifer asked, showing his hands.
"Yeah... How did you know?" Alia asked weirdly.
"This... You... Her... How..."
Lucifer couldn't understand anything. His mother wasn't a summoner, let alone soone who could summon a High Beast from the world of Summons. So how was it possible?
But Alia knew her. She perfectly described her. That was impossible if she didn't know about her. So could it be that his Mother was a summoner? Then why didn't anyone know about it?
"Did my Mo- I an, did that last summon you in public? How many people were there around her when she summoned you?"
"People? Not many. Usually, there was only one person with her whenever I was summoned. It was a guy who had light golden pupils. Oh, and he was pretty strong. It was only once when I was Summoned with more than one person present."
"So she did Summon you in public. There must have been a record of that then. Why was it hidden? When was it? When did she summon you with more people present?!" Lucifer asked.
"A-are you alright? Why do you look so agitated?" Alia inquired, not understanding why he was so involved. What was happening here?
"Answer !"
"Fine! The last ti she summoned was the day it happened! It was the day I received this poison!" Alia explained.
She rembered the past as well as she could before she explained.
"We were inside a cave. There were tens of people around us; however, none of them were moving. It was as if they were all dead. Even that woman was lying on the ground weakly. She asked to take her and her husband to safety..."
"S-safety? Please tell you did! Tell you saved them!" Lucifer exclaid out loud, standing up.
"I... I... I don't know what it was, but there was so kind of poison in the air and I... My physique attracted that excess poison. I don't know what happened after that. My mories are a bit hazy. I rember waking up back in my room after that, feeling extrely hot."
"My entire skin was green as well. Since I'm a Phoenix, I was never phased by heat, but that day, I was feeling like my body was burning. It was as if my own body was destroying from inside."
"I called my mother and told her everything." Alia sighed. "She checked and told that I was affected by so poison that made my flas unstable. And this position was only going to get worse. She brought to this place."
"Every ti my flas beco unstable, I co into this freezing pond to control my body. Why else would a Phoenix that hates cold stay in this pond? It's all because it does more good than bad. It's what kept alive all this while, but even it's getting useless."
"At first, I was able to last a week without having to co here to control my flas, but this ti, I wasn't even able to last one day..."
Even though Alia described her whole life story, Lucifer wasn't interested. He had already dropped to his knees when he heard that Alia wasn't able to save them.
When she told him about eting them last ti, he was sure that it was when his mother and father were poisoned. He thought that Alia would have saved them after hearing the start of her story, but by the end, he only got disappointnt.
It was the sa thing that he told Alia before. He saw the door of hopes, and when he opened it, there was only disappointnt.
"So you couldn't save them?" he asked.
"I don't know. As I said, I don't know what happened after that. But most probably, I failed and lost consciousness right there to wake up at ho. So you can say that I failed, and I'm suffering all this while..." Alia answered.
Even though she was slightly surprised that even after hearing his story and how she was suffering, Lucifer was more concerned about that couple.
"You look sadder about them. Did you know them?" she finally asked, slowly.
Lucifer lowered his head, looking at the snow under his feet. "I did know them."
"How did you know them? Did they summon you too?" Alia asked. "If that was the case, why did they summon in the last monts? You seem immune to the position since even after touching , you were fine. They could've summoned you and survived. Why ?"
"Because they couldn't summon . They... They couldn't do anything. You were their only hope, it seems, and even..."
He took a deep breath, realizing that he was going down the wrong route. He couldn't bla Alia. There was no way a Summoned Beast wouldn't help their summoner if they could. It was just that she was too weak for the position.
He couldn't bla her. She had no hand in it. Moreover, she was also suffering all this while getting closer to death with each passing day.
It was because of his family that she wasn't living the healthy life she could have. Instead, it was her who should have blad him and his family. But she seed to have no ill will for his family.
"Do you hate that woman?" he asked. "She was the reason you're suffering."
"She is the reason for my suffering? I don't think so. She loved like a daughter. She would never do anything to harm . In fact, I'm sure if she knew I was going to be affected by the poison as well, she wouldn't have even summoned ," Alia replied.
"She... I don't bla her, and I never can. It wasn't her fault but the circumstances that brought her and to suffering. In fact, I bla myself. I couldn't save her..."
Lucifer observed Alia's expressions. She genuinely looked sad. Even after all this, she didn't bla his family. That only showed how well his mother treated her.
"You didn't answer . They didn't summon you. Then how co you know about them?" Alia asked, getting back to the topic.
"How do I know them?" Lucifer muttered.. "I know them the sa way a son would know his family."
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