Claiming the Authority, Hufflepuff's Legacy

"Child, which house are you from?"

A gentle female voice rang in Sean's mind, but he had no time to pay attention to it. Besides that voice, a thought suddenly surged up within him.

It was not a voice, but a thought that had inexplicably sprung from his heart. Sean naturally understood what it meant, and he even knew who had left it behind.

Or rather, "person" was not the right word. "God" would be more fitting.

The owner of that thought was the fish from the nursery rhyme. Its honored name was Life.

"Mother was betrayed. She fell from the towering tree, and the betrayers gathered around her, shrieking and laughing wildly..."

"I was an incompetent child. I was the cowardly one. I helped them carve up Mother's body..."

"Later, I often told myself that I had done it in order to survive and reveal the truth to the world. I had done it to leave behind a fragment of Mother's body for her possible resurrection..."

"But Mother's crimson blood flowed through the cup. I watched the betrayers drink it, and I... drank it too."

"I came to deeply understand that I was one of the murderers as well. I felt ashamed. I felt pain."

"That person said he wanted to build an entirely new world. I refused his invitation. He did not stop me, because I had already drunk Mother's blood. I had already become one of the betrayers. I had already borne this world's curse—it bound me tightly together with another curse, leaving me unable to break free or speak."

"I am filthy. I do not seek to wash away my Sin. The only thing I can do is hide away part of Mother, and conceal the secret that person desires as well."

"You who have sensed