"I see. You have Lisa erase all of their memories, including Flinar and Erinmorlin about what happen. Then you ask Lisa to give those two to the couple you save back during the war. They then travel around before deciding to stay at Estel and then..." [Ash]

I can't keep up. No, I don't want to keep up. I don't care, and I don't want to know what happen next as I can already guess it.

Mara and I, both thinking of the same thing, quickly went out from on of the empty room. Rean, Elise and Farhah try to make us feel better, but we just can't. Even the other orphans seems shock seeing the two of us run into our room. Thank goodness it's empty

"Kara, Mara! Please open up!" [Rean]

"We... we understand what you're going through, so please..." [Elise]

"Rean, Elise! What happen to them?" [Seo Ah]

"They seems depressed... What did Mrs Aries do?" [Long hair girl]

"Claude, Rafiah why are the two of them... and those three, why are you crying?" [Kana]

"Well... I think it's better for Mrs Aries or someone else to explain" [Rafiah]

"Let just give them some time for now" [Claude]

Now I can hear Singa, Savel and Charlotte crying. The very young one among the orphan cry as well because of those three excessive cryings. Even though we are the one who are supposed to be crying, but why. Why can't I just accept what Mrs Aries told us? She's out mother, but is there even a proof of it? What if she says that just to fool us, just so they can take us away from the orphanage. What if they wanted to

"AAAARHHH! JUST WHAT IS HAPPENING!" [Mara]

"Mara... Hey Mara, Is she really our mother?" [Kara]

"I don't know! I don't want to know!" [Mara]

"Maybe she's trying to trick us..." [Kara]

"Maybe... But..." [Mara]

"But..." [Kara]

I think I know what she's about to say.

"I don't think that's the case..." [Mara]

"She did try her best to protect us on multiple occasions, and each time, we feel some tingling warmness. It's addicting, and I love that feeling..." [Kara]

"But she had abandoned us, and tried to kill us as well!" [Mara]

"Just what is happening..." [Kara]

Goddess. The path ahead of us is a hard one. We awakened this blessing of your after meeting Motra, multiple attempts to separate us from Brother Ash few times in less than a week, and now, knowing the truth from her. I thought I was ready to accept her, but, just why did I suddenly feel like this? I thought both Mara and I wanted her to become our mother, I thought both of us will accept her just as easily, but why... Why did we feel like this after knowing the truth. It's hard enough to digest the revelation, but knowing your own mother try to kill you and then abandoned you is just...

"I'm sure she had her own reason, abandoning us... most likely to keep us safe" [Mara]

"I know. But..." [Kara]

"It's hard for the heart to accept it. Just when I thought we will be happy to be reunited with her..." [Mara]

"Mara. What should we do..." [Kara]

"I don't know" [Mara]

Silence once again filled the room. Should we accept Mrs Aries? Are we being selfish here? We are already twelve, so we shouldn't create immature trouble for people around us, but our heart is

"I'm coming in" [Ash]

""WAIT!!"" [Kara, Mara]

"Too late" [Ash]

He just barges in! How rude! Mara try her best to kick him out, but it prove useless. I can see the other having a worried look, just standing outside our rooms. They're still there, I wonder if they heard our conversation

He then sits between the two of us, before bringing out some nice cold drink from his item box. Apparently, we have been in the room for quite some time now. I didn't even realize it is already nighttime

"So, should I kick your mother out?" [Ash]

"!" [Kara]

"How blunt" [Mara]

"Well, you guys didn't want to accept her, right?" [Ash]

"We didn't say that!" [Kara]

"Oh... so you accept her then?" [Ash]

"We didn't say that either!" [Mara]

"Then which one?" [Ash]

""We, we don't know"" [Kara, Mara]

"Haha" [Ash]

""Grrr! Don't laugh!!"" [Kara, Mara]

"Sorry, but... Do you want to give her a chance at least?" [Ash]

""Chance??"" [Kara, Mara]

"Chance to redeem herself. Chance for her to correct her past, and most importantly, chance for her to call you, her daughters once more" [Ash]

""That is..."" [Kara, Mara]

"Well, personally speaking, I do feel what she did was wrong, but I won't blame her. She was stressed, under the influence of Drant as well as her circumstances when giving birth to you. That said, the idea of abandoning her children don't seat well with me" [Ash]

""..."" [Kara, Mara]

"But, she is serious, and for that, I think you should consider it as well. At least live with her for a while" [Ash]

"You mean..." [Kara]

"We will follow her and went to the demon kingdom?" [Mara]

"Nope. She already resigned as the Paladin of the demon kingdom. Now, she's an adventure for the guild in Estel. An A rank for that" [Ash]

""What!!"" [Kara, Mara]

"Yeah, even I thought they will give her an S rank title, but..." [Ash]

""THAT'S NOT IT!! What do you mean she resigned??"" [Kara, Mara]

Unbelievable... She resigned. But why

"Well, Mira there ask how serious she was to adopt you back. She immediately answer by saying she would stay here to look after all of you. She, Mira, Khamishah and I then meet the Demon King for a discussion and she keep pressing poor Druser to let her go" [Ash]

"Why?" [Mara]

"Why did she do that!" [Kara]

"Simple, she wanted to be with you" [Ash]

""!!"" [Kara, Mara]

What should we do...

"For now, do you want to see her?" [Ash]

~Nod~

"Understood. Let us go" [Ash]

Brother Ash hold our hands and when we get outside, the other begin to ask whether we are fine or not. Looks like we made them worry sick. Sorry.

We can see Mrs Gizzere, Mrs Aries and Mrs Lisa are discussing something. From what I could hear, it sounded like the demon king Druser buy Mrs Aries a house nearby, as a parting gift.

"You two. Are you alright?" [Gizzere]

""Hmm... We are"" [Kara, Mara]

"That's good to hear. Don't make this old heart of mine worry" [Gizzere]

""We are sorry"" [Kara, Mara]

"It's fine. How about you talk to her for a bit" [Gizzere]

Mrs Gizzere leave, dragging Brother Ash with her. I can see he is worried about what would happen, but Mrs Gizzere drags him away nonetheless

"Kara, Mara... I am..." [Aries]

"Should we look at the house first?" [Lisa]

"""!!!""" [Aries, Kara, Mara]

"How about it, are you guys excited?" [Lisa]

"I guess we should see it" [Aries]

"How about the both of you?" [Lisa]

"Yes" "Sure" [Kara] [Mara]