A miracle! This was a miracle happening right before her eyes! Mother wasn't dead, and Mother must be one of those legendary, great, and obscure scientists. She must have had to go into hiding and fake her own death in order to research and fight the Honkai.
In an instant, Mei concocted an extremely bizarre storyline to make sense of everything.
Perhaps it was bizarre, but it also seemed to make a lot of sense.
Since ordinary people truly knew nothing about the Honkai, she herself had only recently learned that such bizarre things actually existed in this world.
Therefore, Mother must have done it to fight the Honkai and keep her normal life undisturbed.
It was also because of the demands of the upper echelons, of Schicksal, that she had to fake her own death.
Mother was still alive, and she was right in front of her.
She simply couldn't acknowledge her.
This bento was actually prepared by Mother specifically for her. If that weren't the case, why would she be so readily willing to trade with her?
"Mm! Mm!" Mei choked out, "Good... delicious! Extremely delicious!"
"Mom..."
"MEI Research Institute." Mei bit her lower lip hard and said, "It's just too delicious."
She couldn't call out. Mother must have had her own unspeakable difficulties for not being able to acknowledge her.
Mother was giving a wry smile!
This was the helplessness of being a mother! She clearly knew, clearly knew her own daughter was right in front of her, yet she couldn't acknowledge her. She clearly knew she had actually been recognized, yet she repeatedly emphasized that she wasn't.
Mother had her own difficulties; she couldn't acknowledge her.
Therefore...
She must absolutely not bring her too much trouble.
Since they had already crossed paths again, why bother fixating