Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 50: Mutual-Evit 10 of 10 “To ...” (Part 02)
Odo's words brought Mavis to a standstill, staring in trepidation and raising his hand from the young man. Stepping back, the Light Witch could only stare chaotically and begin to fear the thing she was most worried about her son. Fiola who realized it was approaching soon, the only Shieal wearing a black kimono immediately snapped, “Master Odo! Don't talk to the madam like that! Why you—!”
Mavis stopped her loyal servant, then said, “Diam, Fiola ...”
“But ..!”
“Be quiet ...”
The atmosphere turned silent, the Shieal fell silent and none of the people let out a gasp in the middle of the heavy atmosphere. The mother and son stared at each other, not turning at all and their eyes met with a fixed.
Slightly putting on a smile that seemed sad, Odo limply said, “Kelak, from now on and on I will definitely endanger myself. Although this body is injured, even though this heart is hurt, I can no longer stop.”
Mavis was stunned, her anxiety had truly come true. The woman was aware that Odo Luke would step away from her, which is what someone who gave information to women who should not be able to conceive could have the child said. The blonde woman understood his selfish fee, she already understood what kind of punishment would befall her one day for sacrificing too much for the happiness of others.
Staring with glazed eyes, Mavis took a step closer and asked, “What are you doing all that for? If it was just to help the people in this city, all this should be enough, right? What drives you to keep doing it, my son?”
“Because I have already become a candidate for King ...”
“What is the engagement plan weighing on you?”
Odo only stared flatly at the question as if Mavis was avoiding the core of the conversation and dodging. Mavis herself should have known that her son's soul was indeed different, not something like most children born into the world in a general way and her soul came from the flow of life. Mavis himself also understood, that one day his son would stand on his own feet and start running to fulfill his reason for being born in the world. It was a provision, a nature that Mavis knew from the beginning from one of the Korwa who told her how to conceive her son.
“Not it ...” Odo stared flatly, completely stopped pretending in front of his mother and clearly said, “I was just looking for an excuse, from the start I wanted to do it.”
Mavis flinched, in her head as if the sound of something breaking and adding to her fear. He bragged both sides of his son's shoulders, then with a trembling body he said, “Why are you talking like that? Did something happen to you? Is there anything that pisses you off, Odo? Did that son of the Rein family do something to you?”
The young man in black hair looked straight into his mother's eyes, giving an expression as if fed up with the pretense that existed and all the upsetting relationships were forced. Indeed, the love and love of Mavis as a mother is genuine, but the basis given is wrong because indeed the woman in front of Odo is only a woman who occupies the position of a woman named Mavis.
Odo sighed, then in his mind said, “You are indeed my mother, but not Mavis. The pretense was so sickening, it made me feel ...” The young man stopped continuing his thoughts, realizing that Fiola could have looked at his head.
Staring at Mavis with a tired expression, Odo tightly grasped the two women's trembling hands while putting on a faint smile. The young man glued the back of Mavis' right hand to the cheek, stared with a look of relief and said, “I love magic, I thirst for knowledge.”
“Mother knows it ...”
“But the world has low knowledge and limited education level. A lot of false knowledge is spread, and people tend to worship or excommunicate something they do not know.”
“Indeed such a thing is natural. O my son, people tend to fear the unknown and rely on the stronger ...”
“Bunda .., the reason I build, help and give is because it's for myself. If I stay in that library and drown myself in between books and knowledge, later when I grow up and get out of there, there will be many people who will consider me different
Mavis was stunned, the hand shaking the blonde woman clearly Odo felt in his grasp. Despite knowing what he said that really made his mother suffer and be burdened, Odo did not withdraw his words at all and kept staring coldly.
“You are indeed from a different beginning, Odo ..” Mavis immediately pulled her hand from Odo's grasp, then hugged her son tightly. Tears began to flow, soaking his cheeks and sobbing he said, “My son, you are indeed a genius. Very smart and insightful. Not only do you have a mountain of talent and knowledge about magic, you are also good at government affairs and even equivalent to the descendants of Rein. You are different, but you are still my son. An irreplaceable child.”
“Thank you, Mommy .... I am proud to be born as the son of the Luke family, as your son and father.”
Taking off a hug and holding both sides of his son's shoulders, Mavis shook her head and said, “From the beginning you are. It never hurts to be admired or looked up to, you were also born into a noble family—”
“That's the problem,” interrupted Odo.
Mavis fell silent, completely confused by the words. Before the woman asked, Odo again said, “I am just an ordinary human being dragged into this incredible circle. What I really want is very simple, Mother .... I just want a happy ending.”
“And?” The word sounded so terrifying as it came out from Odo's mouth, as if indeed the young man had no regard for his own life and wanted the death that would be the end of living beings in the Real World. With a trembling Mavis asked, “What .... do you mean, Odo? What is—”
“Persis as I said,” by Odo. The young man stared carelessly, slightly tilted his head and said, “I want all these problems to end happily. No one should lose anymore, no grudges and no hatred.”
Mavis momentarily felt relieved because the ‘late’ in question was not the thing she thought about. But when he got a sharp look from Odo, the woman again trembled and filled with anxiety. Very clearly the young man with black hair said, “But .. I always fail to do that. Death is inevitable to save something, loss will appear when I want to keep something.”
“What do you mean about the Klista tribe? You know my son, death is a natural thing in this world. Things like that .. have happened too often. Although peace pervades at this time, it cannot be completely lost. World history is very closely linked to conflict.”
Mavis was anxious to see the gaze of her son, while raising her hand from his shoulder she asked, “Why did you come to think of another? What did they give you until you worked so hard to do all this?”
“Many they give!” Odo immediately grasped both hands of Mavis tightly, looked straight and firmly said, “The piercing that I took seemed to lead and drag others along, I am the one who learns the most from those around me. I also got a lot of things from Mother, until I was confused what to reply .... However, I am not a person who lives just to survive, I live to develop and move on!”
“Please, Odo .... Don't harm yourself again, don't hurt yourself again! Only that is enough for Mother ...”
“If I do that and stop, one day tragedy will surely come to all! That must have been ..” Odo lowered his face, held Mavis' hands tightly and stuffed her fingers between her fingers. Staring as if full of frustration, the young man loudly said, “I've already got the wheel! If I leave it, this sailing ship will definitely hit the reef and sink! Therefore .., until everything reaches its destination please let me continue sailing, Mother.”
“To where?” Mavis looked back at her son, straight and without hesitation she asked, “To what place are you going?!”
Odo fell silent with his mouth gaping without being able to issue an answer. Although with Perception Speculation and Calculation, that question could not be answered by him. Staring doubtfully he said, “I .. less know about it, Mother. However, at least until all the passengers on this ship can hold the wheel together, I will continue to stand and wake up even in the middle of a storm though.”
“My son, you ...”
Odo stared blankly, clasped Mavis' hand tightly and said, “Because of that, Mother .... In a moment, please let your son make you real anxious again. Please let me continue to trouble Mother until this ends ..”.
“Cannot!”
The words came out of Mavis' mouth very firmly, making Odo jolt and petrify. Removing his hands from his son's grasp, Mavis immediately stepped back and turned her eyes away with an anxious expression. The mother and child quarrel seemed to make everyone who saw it fall silent, feeling absolutely not entitled to interfere in the conversation or leave their place.
In the silent atmosphere, the young man who was highlighted by the morning sunlight looked straight at his mother and stopped putting on labile expressions. Odo stared straight as if erasing all the emotions he showed in the conversation, then very clearly he said, “I. That's why I chose a path like this.”
“A—!” Mavis flinched, stared trembling and was completely muddled by it.
Putting my right hand to the front of my chest and looking straight, the young man said, “If I remain a good and obedient child in the house, all the happiness that exists will surely disappear. What Mother has maintained all this time, what you dream will be destroyed like a sand tower hit by waves.”
“A-What are you saying, my son? Why ... You talk like that?” Mavis stared anxiously, constantly dodging and defending her decision.
“Munda ..” Odo stared tiredly, put on an expression as if fed up with the conversation and limply said, “I have the power to predict the future and predict the past. From the point of view of the kingdom of Felixia it is called Oracle or at its simplest it may also be called Intermediary.”
“That's impossible!” Mavis stared chaotically, she completely did not want to believe that and snapped, “If you have that power, my son! You definitely won't—!”
“I won't fight destiny?”
“A—!”
“So, yes ...” Seeing his mother's shocked expression, Odo again confirmed something. He stared flatly and fretfully said, “Saint is also an intermediary, huh? So Mommy turns out to also often get predictions .... Obviously there Mother often guess what I will do accurately and immediately ask something when I want to do something dangerous.”
“Not .... Mother can not do such a thing.”
“Not Mommy, but her, ‘kan?”
Both of Mavis's eyes opened wide upon hearing that, he fully understood that Odo knew the secret he wanted to hide. Something cracked in his mind broke completely, it so echoed inside the head and made Mavis speechless. In the chaos, the blonde woman quickly screamed at herself, unable to dodge anymore.
Staring with tears in his eyes, the Light Witch pleaded, “Odo ..., please. Let's go home .., let's go back to our house .... Please do not make Mother cry loosely in a place like this ..”.
“Hmm ...” Odo just stared coldly, really feeling pain in the mind but he did not show it on expression. Bracing his own left chest tightly, the young man in black hair replied, “Alright. I'm not gonna say anything more. If that is what you choose, I will obey it. If it was for the sake of Mother's Happiness, I would have relented.”
In the end, the son of Luke's family and the Great Spirit who found him wanted to return to his residence, leaving the barracks with the people who picked him up. The statue that could only be silent during the conversation the mother and child were in was staring at their return from afar, without being able to say anything to the light magician he admired.
He was surprised because the Light Witch did not ask for Odo's victory at all, as if the woman had already known it from the beginning. But quickly his mind was filled with another curiosity about the secret Odo had said before. Standing in the corner of the field, the young man from the Rein family held the Dimensional Bracelet in his right hand and stared flat at the wooden carriage that had begun to depart was pulled by a Drake.
“That shame .... I don't know what you're really after on the other end, but this task will definitely be completed. Before the deadline, I will definitely finish the company and fulfill all your schedule, Odo Luke .... Why did he deliberately make his mother cry like that, I. For what ...”
In Arca's own mind understand the reason Odo is indeed the best choice. For overprotective mothers, such a thing is very necessary, rebellious and make a suitable gap between mother and child. But in the mind of Arca it does feel there is something strange from the conversation of the mother and child.