"It's agreed!"
"Well, it's agreed!"
Chapter 205: The day when fate intersects.
"Ash, do you want this?"
"Mom!"
Noticing his mother's approach, Ash quickly pretended not to care and moved his gaze to one side, but Catherine, who looked slightly behind, still noticed the toy he had been staring at at a glance.
"Ash really likes Tiga. I used to always like to drag my mother to watch these special photos."
Even in 2049, Ultraman Tiga is still at the forefront of the popularity of the Ultraman series.
"Mom, do you also think these are false things?"
That's what dad always said.
"Mom doesn't know as well as Ash."
The mother knelt down and gently stroked the black hair on her son's head with gentle movements.
"However, if Ash likes it, mom will also like it."
Great! Hearing what his mother said, Ash was really happy.
"Sorry, mom didn't bring so much money today."
Then he looked at the Ultraman doll on the stall, and the gentle Catherine stroked the black hair on his forehead with gentle movements.
"I can't buy it for you today."
"It's okay!"
Ash did not show any expression of regret, but instead comforted his mother.
"As long as I can be with my mother, I'll be happy even if I don't need toys!"
"Besides, I'm already six years old, so I really don't need to play with such children's toys anymore."
"What a sensible and good boy."
Ash didn't understand it at that time, but for some reason her mother, who seemed very reluctant to let go, hugged her tighter and tighter.
"Mom, I'm so happy."
"Let's do this. Mom will come back tomorrow and buy it for you."
"Ash Do you remember what happened after that?"
"Ah..."
Returning to the real world, Ash answered gently while supporting his increasingly painful head.
"Maybe mom was busy with other things, or maybe the toy was bought by someone else. That's what I believed at the time."
After all, my mother is an adult, and that is just a toy. If she is a child, she must be considerate of her relatives. I am not going to keep thinking about this kind of thing.
And until my father remarried to a new woman, that day was the last time I saw my mother.
But...
He noticed that something on Catherine's hand seemed to be flickering slightly. Ash looked more and more familiar the more he looked at it.
"That is..."
"That's right."
Putting the doll in his hand in front of Ash, Catherine continued.
"I bought it the next day as promised."
In this case, the reason why it was not given to me was because...
"That's right."
Catherine told his son the possibility that he least wanted to hear.
"This way you can see my son's expression when he knows that something is lost and he will never get it back, so I did it on purpose."
Ultraman Tiga slowly slipped from his loosened hand. Ash quickly stretched out his hand to pick it up, but a sudden headache caused his hand to move slightly away.
"Crack it."
With the crisp sound of landing, the broken head rolled to his feet with a rumble.
"..."
To me, it seemed that my mother suddenly came back that day and gave me hope, and then suddenly disappeared, taking away the last bit of fantasy.
I'm not actually too sentimental about things like this. In other words, after I gradually lost my desire for "miracles" in my heart, I almost lost interest in everything. I don't care about anything.
Until the day I met "Him" when I was 12 years old, He invited me to embark on a journey with him, and I happily agreed.
I lost the city that once contained my memories, but I gained Mugen the vast world. I am determined to survive tenaciously with Him, and witness in this world of Mugen, leaving a wonderful story behind.
After that, I encountered countless enemies and stories uglier than my own world.
But I also met countless companions and legends that exceeded my imagination and made me long for them.
Time passes like water, and I continue to understand and forget, but deep in my heart I am still growing.
Gradually, as I kept moving forward, I found that I had the strength and wisdom I had so longed for.
I became friends with heroes I had only seen on TV, and even fought alongside them or against each other, creating countless great legends.
My mission was to collect "Dark Echo" with Him, but I got a treasure that could never be called darkness.
I have met good partners who also care about me, I have gained good comrades who are both enemies and friends, and I have people I love who also love me.
Just like this, when I called myself Black Night King and walked all the way to Haruka and the others, when I remembered everything again, I looked back on the past.
Unknowingly.
Then I became me.
"Why..."
The suffocation feeling coming from the chest has made Ash almost unable to make a sound even deeper in his throat.
It was obviously the gentle and powerful mother who told me to be as great as a hero in all seriousness, who guided me to make my first vow!
That's why I tell you that my dream is to let the people who are important to me know that Ash has grown into an amazing being in the story!
If we want to talk about heroes, you are the original hero in the heart of the child named "Ash"!
"Why would you become such a person?"
No matter how I think about it, I won't understand! Mother—Mother!!!
"Are you asking me why? I lost my former love and felt hopeless for the world, and all of this is human beings' fault!"
Catherine, who was reciting an opera, suddenly changed the topic and said playfully.
"Is this the answer you want to hear?"
"There is no reason, as long as I want to."
"What?"
"It was all because I wanted to do it."
He said the fact that made Ash's pupils shrink as if nothing had happened, but Catherine still couldn't see any change on his face.
"I thought it would be fun, so I did it."
Something is broken.
When he heard these words, it was like a thunder exploded in his soul. Ash, whose ears were also buzzing and couldn't hear any sound, twisted his expression, drew his sword and rushed towards Catherine.
"Shut up, don't talk! Don't talk with the same voice and face as my mother!"
"Ah, are you running away at this time?"
Catherine easily dodged the sword that was thrust out of nowhere, and raised his hand to grab Ash's face, pressing him hard to the ground.
She is absorbing the "desperate energy" of the entire world to fill herself up with a higher efficiency than that Dyspear, but Ash is resisting, and she has easily surpassed Ash at this moment.
"My mother already knows her son's story, not only because she can read his mind, but also because your memories are also my memories."
"Shut up, I don't want to hear it!"
Ash, who was struggling and shouting, shook his head wildly until the other person's warm body pressed him down. His soft hands held his head with a frightened expression and intimately leaned his forehead against his, while forcing him to look directly into his eyes.
"In this case, mother will tell some stories that her son doesn't know."
Chapter 206: Broken Soul and Broken Dream
"Before you were born, your mother was Interdimensional Traveler."
"I was just an ordinary person, but I inexplicably awakened the power to travel across the world and read minds. At that time, I felt so new about this kind of thing, but I was ecstatic."
"Isn't it very interesting to have a golden finger like the protagonist of such an online novel?"
Catherine, who had no talent for telling stories, just boringly recounted settings from the past, but just listening to these boring words made Ash's head hurt.
"So I immediately used this power to act recklessly. I would breathe the air of another world and seize things that originally belonged to other people. There was no reason. All just to make me more powerful and satisfied!"
After all, isn't that what Interdimensional Traveler says? Why do you look frightened? There's nothing strange about that, right?
"Gradually, I also gained power far beyond what I had before. I could kill gods when gods blocked me, and Buddha when I blocked Buddha! Until I discovered that no one could stop me no matter how recklessly I acted."
"I'm tired of it."
The high-spirited speech suddenly deflated when it reached its climax. The rather cute and pouty Catherine suppressed him and began to pull the soft flesh of Ash's cheeks.
"When you have everything you want, things that you thought were interesting before will become boring. Ash You know this kind of thing best, right?"
It's different, I'm different from you!
"So I have been playing in other worlds that are full of excitement. I want to try a more ordinary life, such as... an ordinary marriage and having children."
"So I married your father. Don't get me wrong. Your father is indeed an ordinary person. He is an ordinary person who will be happy and sad because of me. No matter his ability or appearance, he is extremely ordinary."
After all, this time I want to live an ordinary life after getting used to excitement. Of course, I have to find an ordinary person. I pay great attention to the role-playing experience and don't want OOC.
"As a result, being a wife, raising a husband, raising children, etc., doing these things that I have never experienced in the past is surprisingly interesting." Catherine gave up the touch of kneading, and instead used his slender fingers to poke Ash's chest underneath him. "Originally, I was thinking that I would spend my life with you as an ordinary person and then go to other worlds to find new fun."
If nothing unexpected happened, this family would probably spend their lives in such a normal way.
"If that's the case, why did you leave anyway!"
Ash roared angrily at his mother.
"Of course it's because of my son, you."
"Me?"
"I knew it the first time I saw you start talking and showing your curiosity about the world." Catherine The original Motohei's quiet face instantly came closer to Ash, and became extremely ferocious again. "You are a being who is insulated from ordinary life just like me!"
"So I became interested, and something more interesting than the original husband and godson came up!"
I can see through the minds of intelligent beings. All minds are like flowers to me. Whether they are blooming or withering, I am extremely fascinated by their changes.
Have you said that? What I like best is the expression when the originally "light" being is suffering from the "darkness".
So, how could I not be excited when I looked through your small body and saw a flower that I had never heard of or seen before? Don't imagine that such a flower will turn into a form that I have never seen before!
"Only those under pressure can see their true selves, so I did the same to you."
"Your father didn't tell you, did he? I brought up the divorce unilaterally. It seems that he didn't want my image to be broken in your heart? I'm obviously just a human being."
"!"
The already blurred image of his father suddenly became more "strange" in Ash's heart.
"I can see that if you continue like this, you will use your indelible talents to change the whole world, whether it is good or bad. I have been waiting for this scene and I am really looking forward to that scene! The result..."
Catherine sighed.
"You were kidnapped by that thing first, and when I finally found you again, you had grown into the amazing person you are now, far beyond my mother's imagination!"