Chapter 287

"Where am I?" [Charlotte]

"You have wake up!" [Elise]

"Thank goodness" [Kara]

Elise and Kara can be seen, with a raccoon like eyes. I see, the two of them must be worried sick because of me blacking out all of a sudden. I am told that this is the resting room inside of the castle. It remains unscathed even when the mermaid king is on a rampage, and speaking of the mermaid king

"What happen afterward?" [Charlotte]

"The mermaid king, he's dead" [Elise]

"!" [Charlotte]

"After your assault with the water bullet, thing we're looking good for a moment, but due to the massive strain that he get after going berserk, his frail body take the toll and..." [Kara]

I see. In other word, we fail to save him. Now all that's left is to investigate why did all of this happen, and for that

"No! Stay in the bed! We will handle this" [Elise]

"I'm no longer a child! Let me help!" [Charlotte]

"This has nothing to do with that. Sick people should just rest" [Kara]

They're trying to prevent me from getting out of the bed, and they actually won. I am still feeling weak, so all they have to do is just hold me in a place with little to no effort at all

"You three are in a good mood" [Mahsuri]

Mahsuri, who suddenly look a bit older enter the room. Her usual thirty year old appearance take a decade and a half leap forward in time. What happen?

"Why are you looking older all of a sudden?" [Charlotte]

Wait, she did mentioned that she will be here no more, and she's looking rather sad and worries about it back then, so is this what she meant?

"I am supposed to be death by now, but I guess Death didn't just caught up to me yet" [Mahsuri]

She said it like it was no big deal, and the way she mentioned death just now, is she referring to the God of Death?

"Now then, should I continue?" [Mahsuri]

"""!!!""" [Elise, Kara, Charlotte]

The three of us, agree through mutual silence, and without missing a beat, she continues her story

"Charlotte. Long story short, you're actually the child of Vincent and Maria, the first saint and saintess, which makes you Ash's biological little sister" [Mahsuri]

""WHAT!!"" [Elise, Kara]

"You're joking right..." [Charlotte]

"I'm not, though I should speed up a bit. I don't know whether the fallen god curse will catch up and prevent me from talking about it. Remember how I said the saint and saintess was killed with her three year old son? You're still inside the womb and you have no chance of surviving whatsoever at that time, and thus..." [Mahsuri]

Again, she pause. I don't know whether she couldn't talk about it, or simply refuse

"Thus, in order to save you. I actually take you out from Maria's wound and have the mermaid kingdom save you. The mermaid king and I by any means are no great physician, and there's no one that can save you at that time... So, with what little knowledge we have at that time, we created what we know the best... A homunculus to save you" [Mahsuri]

"So, I am a homunculus?" [Charlotte]

"Half homunculus. You see, true homunculus like me, Lara and Nara are really hard to create, and so, in order to give you a second chance, we both actually shared half of our magic core and implant it inside of you, but as you can see, you're simply an abnormality, and that happened" [Mahsuri]

She pointed out to the direction of the large blue orb. There's a wall that separates it, but since it emits mana, the three of us just pick it up straight away and know what she's trying to convey, but

"But that's how many thousands of years ago?" [Elise]

"True, if Charlotte really am the daughter of first saint and saintess, how can she lives in our era?" [Kara]

"Some time later, the fallen god and its army try to capture the mermaid kingdom. They nearly..." [Mahsuri]

Mahsuri suddenly stop. She tried her best to speak, but regardless, she can't. Is this what preventing people from talking about the fallen god. If so, this is the first time I actually see it in action. Almost anything regarding the fallen god will be blocked, but the curse varied from person to person, since a large scale magic like this bound to have many loophole

"Understood. Thank you for telling me that. I am really grateful for it, although I still don't know how I ended up with the other, I am still satisfied" [Charlotte]

""Charlotte..."" [Elise, Kara]

I shouldn't be extra greedy. Plus, if I really need to know, I simply have to defeat the fallen god and come back alive, and have Mahsuri tell me the story once again

"I'm tired, but I kinda want to see the mermaid kingdom and help around a bit, so can I..." [Charlotte]

""No!!"" [Elise, Kara]

As expected, they aren't making it any easy. Just when I wanted to say my counter argument, the important looking person come, with few of the soldiers just behind him, carrying what seems to be the scales of the mermaid king when he was corrupted

"Your highness, please, have a look at this" [Important looking person]

Not only Mahsuri, the three of us actually take a peek as well. There are some sort of inscription being written by heat on the inner layer of the scales, and

"""This is!!!""" [Elise, Kara, Charlotte]

"And I suppose the other scales contain similar inscription?" [Mahsuri]

"That's right, though this one in particular is for the both of you" [Important looking person]

The one we are looking just now contain the information regarding the fallen god devil executive on this era, and the one that is handled over to both of us says

"Please. Take the throne and protect the mermaid kingdom in my stead"

The mermaid king dying wish