LILITH'S HUMAN SIDE

His biological mother was actually Lilith, the Blood Ancestor!

Hobart stood stunned for a long while before suddenly thinking, My seniority has risen again. From now on, Emlyn will have to call me Ancestor! He quickly accepted the fact, because it immediately explained many strange things he had encountered before. For example, why she had betrayed the Earth Mother Church yet still possessed a Sealed Artifact bearing the Earth Mother's mark. Why the Earth Mother had been so kind to him. Why the Earth Mother Church had changed its prayer gesture on the day he was born!

In short, all of Hobart's previous doubts about his mother were suddenly resolved.

The rough outline of events in his mind was this: for some unknown reason, the Earth Mother had split off April as a separate personality. Perhaps it had been arranged by the Earth Mother, or perhaps April had met Hobart's father, Rex, by chance.

Later, Hobart was born. Under the Earth Mother's control, April must have betrayed the Earth Mother Church and begun making contact with the Fallen Mother Goddess.

After becoming an angel, April recalled everything. The first piece of information she remembered was that she was Lilith.

Hobart took a deep breath. It was a good thing she had not let anything slip. If she had followed that with, "I am also the Earth Mother," then everyone here would have had to be killed, and he would have needed to go to the Spirit World and clear out all the nearby Spirit World Creatures before he could rest easy.

April—or rather, Lilith—quickly recovered from her daze. She smiled at Spike. "You have been used by the Fallen Mother Goddess. The Spirituality Research Society's research will never succeed."

Spike sneered. "Not necessarily..."

Suddenly, he vanished right before Hobart and