"But it's no longer necessary. After all, my mother is back now. I can continue to love Ash. After all, it is a beautiful and natural thing for a mother to love her child, right?"
The gentle words that were exactly the same as his memory weakened Ash's fighting spirit. Ash felt the warmth of his mother in this woman for a long time. Ash really felt it. This woman could love him so purely that there was no other reason.
The hand holding the sword began to waver. Even though his reason told him to push away the woman in front of him, his sensibility just wanted him to embrace his long-lost mother.
"It's easy to get mom back to Ash, as long as Ash is obedient again."
"For example, Ash has to personally get rid of some unnecessary things, such as those girls who are a bit dazzling and annoying~ After all, those are things that only little girls like..."
"Shut up!"
Don't involve them casually!
The sudden sweeping sword dance created an absolute clear space around him, and Catherine, who reappeared not far away, smiled ferociously in front of Ash.
"I'm not a beggar who needs your charity! I'm not so lacking in love that I need anyone's charity!"
Don't think that you can control me by just using such topics. I am who I am and I am not anyone's property!
"Ah~ you finally spoke." The smiling Catherine said something completely different from what was asked. "I thought the energy of despair had some effect on your voice. After all, mom still wants to hear Ash's voice again."
"You are not a child who lacks love, of course you are not~ After all, there are many people who love you, so many that you will be envied by other men, right?"
"But." The woman Yuyu said as she turned her hand around and something that seemed familiar to Ash flashed. "Human beings will always be trapped by the things they can't get when they are young."
"Don't you think so, son?"
"You're not my-!"
"Ara, do you still have to deny it over and over again now? Mom, don't you remember that you were raised to be a child who likes to deny facts." Catherine, who squinted his eyes slightly, could more clearly see the black mist of "desperate energy" on his body, which seemed to be blocked by a subtle layer of light film, preventing it from penetrating deeper into the inner shell.
Still insisting? If it were before, his heart would not be so strong. Did the heroes including Pretty Cure make his heart stronger?
Yep, they are obviously just heroes.
It's obvious that they are just some... British "heroes" who appear on TV as many times as they want.
Ah~ Now I have one more reason to hate them.
"No, no! No matter how similar you are, there is no way that you will be the mother in my memory. This is a disguise, and it is absolutely not the case anyway!"
By the way, I still have a reason to deny it.
"Don't you know this question if you ask yourself?" Catherine casually tilted his head and blocked all Ash's words. "After all, this is your own relative, so it's impossible to admit your mistake. In fact, you can feel the truth from the beginning, right? Even if you can deceive anyone, you can't deceive yourself."
What she said is true.
"This is because...!" Ash, the only one who could only keep talking, insisted on continuing to quibble. "That's right, even if this body is really my mother, then you must be possessed by something like Imagin or Hora, or your mind must be controlled by the evil witch in that world!"
Only the existence deep inside didn't want her to be stained in any way!
"Stop imitating my mother, she can't be someone like you!"
That's right, now I have even more reasons to defeat you! Because you insulted the image in my mind!
Chapter 202: When looking back on the past, is it more happiness or pain?
"Sigh... children nowadays are really becoming more and more disobedient."
Seeing Ash who was about to charge at him again, he avoided his attacks several times. Catherine, who was standing opposite, seemed to have finally given up and sighed and asked again.
"Do you still remember when you started watching your favorite hero special feature film?"
"Hmph, anyway, if you can read minds, you have already seen my memories, right?" Ash finally smiled in front of her. "After my alienation from my native world reached its peak, at the age of 12, I indulged myself in that world and wanted to recreate everything in it!"
Do you even need me to repeat this kind of thing? Finally I found the flaw of you "fake actor"! You liar, you really deserve to be killed!
"That's not right."
I'll tell you if he's a liar or not. I'll show you the evidence.
"?"
"When you were almost 3 years old, you would look forward to us watching TV together every day after you came back from kindergarten."
"After all, your father prefers F1 racing, so watching those special feature films of children with you is the time that only belongs to me at that time."
Green fingers gently touched her chin, and a look of nostalgia appeared on the woman's face.
"Do you still remember the name of the tokusatsu film we watched together for the first time? Oh yes, it was "Kikaider", right?"
"At that time, you also liked to imitate the unique tricks of the protagonist 'Electromagnetic END', hehehe~ It's so cute!"
When she talked about such interesting things, she laughed.
"!"
"After all, it is a super-old special photo film from almost a century ago. I don't know where I got the original Ash and wanted to watch it. Mom, I also spent a lot of effort to find the disc, so the memory is still fresh in my memory."
The words were not cold but filled with memories. When Ash heard it, he clearly felt a big, piercing cold hand reaching into his chest and kneading it wantonly.
He remembered.
Excluding the existence of "hyperamnesia" or special abilities, even the smartest person cannot remember all the information in his memory. For example, if you ask people to recall what they had for lunch last Sunday, it is indeed a bit difficult.
However, if you can get a little reminder and some original impressions, it is indeed not a problem to unlock some of the dusty memories.
Therefore, Ash did remember it.
"Artificial World Kikaider" or "Computer Wizards", of course he remembered this special shot. This was the first world he and the system traveled through, how could he forget it!
And according to what He told me, the order of time travel is also in the order of my supplementary chapters...
"Let me think again~ Well, what is it?" The stronger the interest in recalling on her face, the more answers she came up with, like more hammers hitting Ash's heart.
"Ash's favorite ones when he was a child were Super Sentai and Ultraman. For Kamen Rider, he obviously liked it but was afraid of the scary elements in it, fufuhu~"
Thinking of Ash who was curled up in his arms in the past, but couldn't help but look at the cute appearance on the TV through the gap between his palms, Catherine couldn't help but smile happily.
"Your first love is the yellow warrior 'Reimon Jasmine' in "Tokusou Sentai". It is obviously my favorite Sentai series, but when I asked you out of curiosity, I was too shy to tell my mother."
""Ultraman Gaia" and "Ultraman Tiga" are both your favorites. I once gave you a soft rubber doll of the former on your 5th birthday, and you happily hugged it to bed every night."
"Your favorite Rider is "Kamen Rider Kuuga", but you have always been afraid of Gurongi in it, so every time you watch it, your mother must be with you to sleep~"
"So the first real contact was not when I was 12 years old." After opening the conversation, Catherine continued to open the cat box hidden in the past for him bit by bit. "It's just that after we divorced when you were 6 years old, you lost your companionship and no one saw you anymore."
"The so-called 12-year-old is just picking up the past experiences again. Now that I think about it, it was a really good time——"
As the memories narrated by Catherine reappeared before her eyes one after another, just when she was still about to say more, she was interrupted by a sad roar.
"Stop talking!"
Ash, whose shoulders were rising and falling, was panting violently as the air around him gradually became smelly.
Such a thing! This is something I've never told anyone...
It's a memory that only my family and I have!
"I beg you, stop talking...!"
Don't remind me of more, don't let my memories be stained with stains!
"What is the reason why you came to this world!?"
The straightforward Ash pointed directly at the mother opposite, asking the original question right here.
I can no longer deceive myself.
"What is the reason why mom did this?!"
Whether it is why my mother, who in my mind was just an ordinary worker, became such a "Interdimensional Traveler", or why she found him with obsession, there were too many questions.
However, there is a problem, he hopes...
Please, please tell me that what you did has a deep meaning! It's all because of other reasons!
"Reason? I said it's because I'm unhappy. I like the twisted and painful look of others the most." Thinking of the heartbroken look on Yao's face when he heard Ash shouting that word, Catherine's gentle face was once again filled with sudden distortion. "Especially the reverse look, it's the best~!"
"There are Pretty Cure and the others in this world, what's wrong with that!?"
"Hey, there is indeed nothing wrong with that." Catherine continued to say with a smile. "So I want to kill them all, because it will make me happy again when I am unhappy."
"There is another reason, of course it's because of you."
"...?"
"Although you have been away from home for so many years, you are still my child, right?" The slender fingers once again climbed onto Ash's face, but this time the pressure of the sharp nails pressing into the flesh made Ash's breathing feel stagnant.
"So, it's almost time to come back, right?"
"Don't..."
"Don't be awkward~ After all, I am your mother, of course I will support you."
"So come back quickly and become your mother's thing again."
"This is natural, right?"
Chapter 203 The unforgettable past and pain (Part 1)
Why is it like this...
When Catherine came closer to his heart that was gradually unable to hold on, Ash seemed to see the principle of "despair" that Dysdark had been preaching. But in the face of such "desperate" facts, Ash's thinking circuit gradually became immersed.
Especially when the prompting from my mother awakens things that have been forgotten in my past.
He could feel that he was slowly but firmly sinking into the extremely profound and far-reaching past.
I started to read and speak when I was about one year and one month old.
So from that time on, when I gradually showed my curiosity and understanding of everything, my parents were of course unabashedly surprised and fond of my "genius". At least at that time I could see that their happiness and concern for me definitely didn't seem fake!
I didn't live in some indifferent world from the beginning. Although my parents were just ordinary workers, they loved me very much... at least that's what I thought at the time. I once had a happy life with my family.
I like my father who is silent but loves me, I like my mother who always embraces me with tenderness, and I also like that world that is a little cold but not entirely dark. I also thought with great interest that I would use my talents to make the whole world a better place like the protagonist on TV!
"Since when did I forget?"
When...
When did you start feeling that everything in the world was boring?
If you want to say why, it was a long time ago.
It was when I was 12 years old... No, it was further back than that day, when I was 6 years old.
"It seems things are getting weird between mom and dad?"
It would be nice if I was just as ignorant as a child of the same age and didn't understand the word "divorce" they were talking about, and didn't notice the changing atmosphere of the relationship between the two.
However, who calls me a genius that is praised by my parents and my neighbors?
Yes, since I am a genius! Then let me use my genius that can solve everything and let my parents remember the happy days together as a family again!
Today is my sixth birthday, but my parents seem to be busy with nothing else. It's okay, I'm a very obedient child, so I understand how busy adults are, so let me do the birthday arrangements myself today!
So even without anyone's help, the six-year-old child still arranged his birthday party by himself. Whether it was a delicious cake or a stage device that made adults smile, it must all be turned into "magic" that allows them to smile again as a symbol of reconciliation!
Ash just watched the young self hiding behind the door, quietly listening to the voices of the quarrel on the other side getting closer, until the moment the door was pushed open, he pulled away the rope of the ribbon.
"Crack!"
Ribbons of the color they liked were specially chosen and sprayed on the heads of the two couples who had been quarreling before.
Ash knows, he knows how bad "divorce" means, but I have also seen many special films!
The heroic brothers and sisters inside also told me, they told me how important their relatives are to them, no matter how harsh they may appear outside, as long as they are parents, they must love their children! They must all love me too!
This is definitely like the story on TV. As long as there is love, a happy ending miracle will definitely happen!
Therefore, I will try my best to hide my sad feelings in my heart, just to put the happier side in front of my parents!
"Happy birthday!"
Standing in front of the somewhat dull adults, the delighted child opened the homemade stage device and showed his brightest smile in front of his parents.