Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 51: Quod (Part 02)
“You know, I'm not human.” Mavis opened her own palm, then looked at her and explained, This soul and body, is undoubtedly an Artificial form. Myself is Homunculus, Intara Hexe Series created by the Great Witch.”
“!!!”
The mind was just wide-eyed, the fact that the figure he had been serving all this time was something almost similar to what Odo had said before actually took him a hit. Looking towards her Young Master, the woman was even more surprised because the young man looked so calm, when the fact should have surprised her and was not easily accepted.
Mavis looked back at Odo, then asked, “What ... You also know about it, my son?”
“Ya ..” Odo nodded, smiled sadly at a glance and replied, “Soal Mommy who is not human I already know. Such a magic structure is indeed impossible to instill in humans, this explains it.”
“Magic structure?” mavis asked confusedly.
“What made me come to this world.”
It made everyone who heard it flinch, including Mavis herself. With some hesitation, the blonde lady asked, “What .... are you talking about, Odo?”
The young man in black hair scratched the back of his own head, leaned his body against the chair and stared a little reluctantly. In a fretful tone he said, “Before discussing that, let's talk about Mommy first. I want to know Mommy more deeply, after that new ..”.
“Know?”
“Not Mother as Mavis, but as Mother herself.”
The words made the blonde woman startled, then smiled faintly from feeling pleased. Odo is indeed such a child, Mavis herself understood that her son would definitely not dispute it and change the perception on him.
With a little relief coming to mind, Mavis asked, “What do you want to ask, my son?”
“Intara Hexe ...” Odo looked seriously, then put his right hand on the table and said, “That is the First Generation Homunculus Series created by the Great Witch in Miquator City, Miquator City, with the task as the main weapon during the Great War. The first series I had so far consisted of five units .... Can you tell me about the sisters?”
“Saudari, yes ...” Mavis looked confused as to what to say. As the first created personality for Intara Hexe, her body was most recently created and could be said to have not participated in the Great War at all. Staring wistfully, the blonde woman replied, “Honestly Mother herself does not know about them other than the name .... Ibio, Iigram, Iin, Vib, and finally Mavis. Those are the five Intara Hexe who participated in the final war.”
“I know it.” Odo covered his own face with his right hand and briefly muttered something in a very slow voice without anyone hearing. Putting his right hand back on the table, he said, “On them, about the incident as well. Luke's family and the Intara Hexe, both of them have killed each other, ‘kan? Time of war ...”
Mavis was surprised to hear that word. But after giving it some thought, Mavis at first glance begins to know that Odo knows such things from the archives stored in the filing room of Luke's residence. With a sad expression the woman asked, “What ... You're not angry about that, my son? It's the same way Mother's sisters killed your uncle and grandfather.”
“Of course I'm angry, but not to Mother .... I'm angry at those who make such a war break out in the worst way.”
“On the Great Witch?”
“Not him. But on those who call themselves the children of Korwa.”
Mavis, Fiola, and Minda were shocked to hear that. Huli Jing behind Mavis immediately walked towards Odo, then kicked the table in front of him and loudly said, “So it's true that the war was also theirs?!”
Odo glanced at a glance, then ignored the woman's blackish brown hair and looked back at Mavis. In a heavy voice he said, “Not only war, I think all the tragedies that happened over the last hundred years were all of them. Great War, Demon Summoning, Slaughter, they were all...”.
Fiola looked extremely wrathful hearing that, making him remember his hatred for the Korwa children. A glimmer of a thin white aura shot out from Huli Jing's body, making her hair and clothes lifted by the changing air pressure around her.
“Fiola, relax,” Mavis said.
The Huli Jing instantly lowered her magic pressure, took a deep breath to calm down and immediately knelt next to Odo. With a serious look he asked, “Master Odo, what have all you been doing against them? Mr. Odo also seemed to know the arrival of the Ancient Demon King while in the Klista settlement, then the Lord at that time took action to defeat him. If it is like that, I would sacrifice myself i—”
“You are wrong,” cut Odo. Looking up with a flat expression and looking intently at the woman kneeling beside her right, the young man in black hair said, “We were just being directed, it was all planned from the beginning. The role of the Korwa was over when I was born into this world ...”
Fiola woke up with a shocked expression, unable to grasp the meaning of the words. Two of Huli Jing's nine tails slapped on Vil's face sitting behind her, making the Great Spirit a little annoyed that her dense fur was blocking the view.
Mavis and Minda fell silent with pale expressions, not daring to ask and the two of them just stared in bewilderment and waited for the explanation of the young man's black hair.
Staring at his mother, Odo Luke asked, “Does Mommy know the reason— Exactly, the underlying pretext of the Korwa children? What makes them willing to sacrifice their lives? What made them kill? And what made them wreak havoc?”
Mavis was speechless, she from the start did not think too much about their reasons. The cult is a form of evil, they commit indiscriminate killing and slaughter. This was already a strong reason for him to fight against the Korwa children. With a slightly doubtful tone, the blonde-haired lady replied, “They .. want to call the Devils, then ... their final goal is to summon the Ancient Demon King.”
“Is Mommy sure that's just their main goal? Mommy should already know, the ultimate goal of the Korwa children is actually what.”
Mavis flinched, remembering something once said by one of Korwa's children. Worriedly he said, “Call the creature they call ... The fatherland? Bearer of change, destruction and reorganizer.”
“Ya, right.” Odo briefly turned his gaze towards Fiola, then looked back at Mavis and said, “They want to call that. However, until now no one knows what the real figure of the Father is. The relationship with the slaughter and summoning of the demons they carried out was also unclear.”
“What ... does it have to do with you, my son?” ask Mavis. The woman had begun to understand the essence of the conversation and what Odo was trying to convey, but the more she thought it made her tremble even more.
“It does have a lot to do. Ever since Mother and Mavis were swallowed by that Demon Monster in Gahon city, their final destination had already been reached ..”
“And Mavis ..?” Mind looked at the woman he respected anxiously, his mind was already able to guess what was really happening and why Mavis who now said she was not the real Mavis.
“Minda ...” The blonde-haired lady stared with her blue eyes, then reluctantly explained, “My spirit is Proten. The first personality figure created for Angel Manifestation Magic, but my body was late refined. Prototype Series of Intara Hexe, Proten .... That's my true soul.”
“Pro ... ten?” The mind is really confused. Unlike Fiola or Vil, he did not know much about the Light Witch. The woman trembled even more, falling in confusion and her mouth slightly gaping yet afraid to ask.
Mavis looked back at Odo and put aside Mind's expression, then in a curious tone she asked, “What is Mavis' death also their plan?”
“Mavis isn't dead, is it?” Odo smiled lightly, then straightly pointed at Mavis and said, “He should still be inside Mother .... Otherwise, where might Mother be able to use light magic with a high purity level.”
Mind was again surprised to hear that, as well as Fiola who had just returned to the back of Mavis sitting down. They both know nothing about it. Vil who had heard Odo's estimation had not changed his expression flat at all and was just staring lightly at the young man's black hair.
“Once, yes.” Mavis smiled faintly, then with a sad expression said, “My son, you even know to that extent. But, unfortunately Mavis was indeed dead .... A part of his soul was in me, but he did not respond anymore. Indeed lately he often met me in a dream, but Mavis just kept quiet.”
“I think it's not right, it's a sign that his soul is still there. Do you know why her soul began to appear on the surface of your consciousness?”
“What ... you know, my son?”
“Hmm, I know. Because it has something to do with my soul too.”
“Jiwamu?”
“Munda ..” Odo placed the right palm to the front of the chest, then in a resolute voice said, “I am a reincarnated soul. In my sentence, it means that there is clearly a party who deliberately made me reborn into this world as Odo Luke ..”
“Reincarnation ...? Mr Odo ..” Mind stared at the young man.
Unlike the black-haired maid, Mavis only had a calm expression as if she had known that from the beginning. Fiola who was standing behind the woman did not change his expression, the Huli Jing from the beginning had thought about it because he often watched over the contents of Odo's head from childhood until now.
“Yes .... “ Odo lowered his face, then grimly said, “Honestly there are still many things I do not know, but the matter of reincarnation is clear. I remember many things in my previous life.”
“What ... those Korwa children that made you incarnate?” ask Mavis.
“Mother should know ...” Odo stared, opened his palms and looked at it sadly as he said, “ Demon Monsters that destroyed that Gahon city, he said, undoubtedly it is a coffin to collect my soul in one place and put it in the body of Mother.”
Mavis and Fiola were surprised, the two of them who were in the place did not think at all up to that point. Fiola closed his mouth with his right hand, lowered his face and anxiously muttered, “True as well .... Those bastards, back then did not usually attack first.”
Closing both palms and placing them on his own lap, Odo again said, “The reason the Korwa children did the demon summoning, slaughter, slaughter, and making a mess is just a way to make it easier for them to collect my soul scattered on this land .... Mommy knows the flow of life, ‘kan? Solved life and death cycle, a Samsara.”
The pieces of questions that filled Mavis' mind were immediately neatly arranged in her head. The summoning of the Devil, the Slaughter, the Great War, and his knowledge of one of the sons of Korwa, all lead him to one big question that scares him.
“Se-Actually ... Whose soul are you? Who were you before becoming Odo?” mavis asked trembling. Although he knew who the soul of the individual named Odo was, he began to doubt it.
Odo briefly smiled faintly, then unhesitatingly said, “I .. is just an ordinary young man, who happened to get love from the Goddess.”
“““Goddess?”””
Everyone in the room simultaneously asked that, even Vil who had been indifferent was also curious.
Odo let out a small sigh, then replied, “Goddess who rules this world, Mother should know.”
“Goddess ... Helena?” The blonde woman trembled, covered her mouth with both hands and with an expression of disbelief asked, “The figure that stands at the peak of that life?”
“Ya ..” Odo momentarily raised both shoulders, then in a less than convincing tone said, “I was once just an ordinary person, then was killed by him and forced into an eternity. Live a long life, but in the end die too. When I thought it was over, I was reborn into the world. At first I also did not remember all that, my memories of his previous life were only limited before I had a long life. But after being killed by that Ancient Demon King and revived, I almost remembered all that...”.
“Di-Killed?” Fiola was startled, immediately walked towards Odo and shakily asked, “At that moment ... Mr Odo is dead?”
Odo stared intently and made Huli Jing's steps stop before arriving. Staring with a slightly mocking expression, he said, “There is indeed a human who did not die after almost all of his bones were broken and his head was crushed? Of course I die if squeezed like that! But ..., after that I was brought back to life with complete memory.” Turning his gaze away from the Huli Jing, Odo sighed lightly and again said, “Complete I don't think that's the right word. My memory is only full.”
“Full?” Fiola looked confused. Mavis and everyone in the place did not understand the difference between complete memory and full memory.
Staring at Mavis, the young man in black hair explained, “I do have all the memories of my previous life, but there are still many that I have not opened. It was still like wooden boxes that were still neatly nailed. And if I open all that, surely my personality as Odo Luke will disappear.”
“Le ... nyap?” Mavis grew even paler upon hearing that. Everyone in the place trembled, completely shocked to hear the words of the young man in black hair.
“My condition is almost the same as Mother ..” The young man put on a smile that implied sadness, then in a light voice he said, “My soul will be overpowered by all those memories, then I will definitely change. I will still be who I am, but obviously everything will collapse...”
Odo's words came to a halt, instantly his eyes looked blank and his mouth was slightly gaping without making a sound. It looked very unnatural, as if the young man's soul was coming out of his body. Mavis was anxious and got up from her seat, but that's when Odo started talking.
“Round .... The multi-story concrete building slowly collapsed. Iron surface, spotlights in enclosed rooms underground. Surgical room, knife and scissors. Brain nerve. Forced mutation .... Planting radiation element. Head contents surgery, vascular tissue surgery and along with digestion, heart surgery, back surgery and replacing the spine .... The blood is dried, the flesh is rearranged in composition, the muscles are trapped with imitation minerals, the skin is less replaced with rubber, additional organs are added. Trials for adjustments have to be made, all of it, kill and revive. Embed pe— elements!”
“Odo!”
“Ah ..” Odo's consciousness returned and he flinched. Seeing Mavis standing nearby and holding tightly to his right hand, the young man looked as if he wanted to cry and softly said, “This, I expected. Memory ...”
Mavis tidied up her dress and knelt next to Odo, then anxiously the blonde woman asked, “What ..
“Let's know, I don't know whose memory this is. It's like watching someone's memory ... and someone's ...” Odo's words came to a halt, gazing at Mavis and instead asking, “I ... I'm who?”
“O-Odo ..”
“Ah, true too. I ... Odo.”
“What's up with you?! What's the matter, my son?” Mavis was so anxious that she woke up and held both of her sons shoulders.
“Wait, Mother ...” Frowning from the excruciating pain that had struck his head, Odo turned his gaze and said, “His alignment is in disarray. When I remembered and opened it, it was like this. I .... Ah, don't worry, it's fine.”
“Where maybe Mommy is not anxious!” mavis.
“Really ...” Odo stared lightly, then put on a fake smile and said, “This is fine. As long as I don't open that memory and finish my plan as soon as possible, everything will be fine.”
Mavis looked very angry, holding tight both shoulders of her son she firmly said, “What plan is it?! Why are you still talking like that?! You better not have to deal with those problems?! Come on, you need to go back to the room .... You must be sick.”
Just as Mavis was about to grab Odo and take him back to the room, the young man brushed his hand aside and put on a blank expression. The atmosphere turned silent, with no words coming out and the young man looked extremely hollow.
Blinking once, Odo's eyes look back and he guiltily says, “Sorry, Mother .... I have to stay up .... Mother knows, for my coming suffering fills this world. Instead I want to correct that mistake. At least get back to the point where everything is—!”
“This land is at peace!” snapped Mavis. He overflowed his emotions and violently bragged Odo's shoulders, then in a loud voice said, “My son, there is no more war here! What do you want to do?! What do you want to fix?”
Both of Mavis's legs began to limp, he removed his hands from his son's shoulders and began to sit pale next to the young man sitting on the chair. Clasping his son's right hand tightly, Mavis said, “Odo ..., please .... You're my only reason to stay alive. Please don't say that, my son.”
Odo was silent, giving a blank look as if the words did not touch his heart. Down from the chair, Odo hugged his mother tightly. That young man did without trembling, without feeling the urge to make his mother calm, and only did that because that was the right attitude.
“Munda ..” Odo released a hug, looked at Mavis and asked, “Does Mother love me? Does your mother love me?”
“Sure!” answer Mavis directly. “You are my beloved son. My pride!”
“Then, please let me do it until the end. Take it easy, I won't die or disappear before my obligations end.”
“What obligation?” Mavis stared confusedly with a trembling body, then said, “Nobody obliges you to shoulder all that ...”
“This is my duty, a must for me to do it.”