A human didn’t just magically turn into a demon. The logic was that simple. If Shao had co from Earth, then she would have had a human body like . Instead, she had a demon body. More than that, she had the demon lord’s bloodline, allowing her to transform into a demon lord. Her body had just suddenly appeared one day in a random town on the border of the Imperial Cloud adow. This was far too random to be a coincidence.
“Can you say for certain that you rembered Earth before encountering ?” I asked a question I had been wanting to ask for a while.
She didn’t answer for a bit, but then she started to shake her head. “I… bits and pieces, but… what happened to ?”
“I can only guess.” I shrugged. “Perhaps, you were the daughter of the demon king that Aberis suggested. Sothing happened, and you lost your mory, appearing in that town. I had always wondered, given what you knew about Earth, you should have had so kind of info to leverage. Knowledge is power, and even a greedy person wouldn’t waste such knowledge just to throw you against monsters and n.”
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“My guess is that with your mind an empty slate, you started from scratch. You had so flashes of that life, enough that you were caught off guard by , but it wasn’t until I began to absorb your lifeforce and give you mine that we finally opened the floodgates. My mories unlocked all of your mories. That was the mont the true Shao was born. Before that, you were just a demon with amnesia who had no past fighting to survive.”
“So… even I am not .” She said scornfully.
“No, weren’t you listening?” Lydia spoke up, causing the teary-eyed Shao to look over at her friend. “People change. You are Shao. You are my friend. You are Master’s woman, his lover, and his assassin. You’re beautiful, and you’re wonderful, and no matter what, you’re you.”
“Lydia…” She said, biting her lip.
“I love you, Shao,” I whispered in her ear. “All of you. We all do. So, don’t think that you’ve lost anything. You found us, and we’re your family. I’m happy to bring you to Earth. I just want you to be prepared for the possibility that we can’t find your family. Those mories could have been from an Earth only similar to mine. The details you rembered were always blurry. Even things like what decade you lived in are hard for to say. We don’t even know you’re original na, so finding your family, I’m not confident I can do it.”
“I understand, Master.” She wiped her cheeks and then smiled. “Thank you for being honest. I don’t know who I was, or where I ca from, but I know I’m Master’s property. That is sothing constant. We may change, but I will always be Master’s. That’s good enough for .”
“That may be good enough for her, but I noticed that you sidestepped the question here.” Elaya cut in, crossing her arms. “Shao’s identity is one thing, but I want to know why you seem to have no interest in returning ho. Wasn’t that your original goal?”
I chuckled softly. It looked like I couldn’t pull the wool over their eyes. Well, it was fine if they knew the truth.
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