After learning of Namiki's second wish, Timidit's tears fell again, despite herself.
Mother...
She truly did not deserve that word.
Yet Namiki had already become a qualified mother. Even at such a time, with her consciousness blurred, she still understood what a mother should do for her child.
Prepare a warm home.
But that home had been occupied by others...
"Waaah!"
Watching Timidit cry, Zhou Qing continued, "Actually, Namiki had a third wish."
"What?" Timidit suddenly raised her head, her eyes brimming with tears as she wanted to know Namiki's final wish.
"To teach her child not to live in hatred and to become a psychologically healthy person," Zhou Qing said slowly. "Namiki's final child, Jia, was formed from a portion of her soul, but inherited her painful memories."
Becoming a mother—
Was not something that could be accomplished with mere words.
When Timidit had first acknowledged Namiki as her daughter, she had been like most parents, with no idea how to be a mother. She had merely felt that Namiki was younger than her and wanted someone to lean on. Or perhaps she had held onto the thought, Having been drenched by rain myself, I want to hold an umbrella for someone else.
In a normal society, doing so would not have caused much of a problem. Even if life was difficult, Timidit could have gradually figured out how to care for and raise a child. Just like most parents throughout the ages, in past lives and present ones, they had not been mentally prepared for how to raise children, yet most of them still managed not to raise their children astray.
But the problem was that during their exploration toward the bottom of the Abyss Ruins, especially after reaching the Third Layer, the pain brought by the Ascension