After hearing this, Lake could not help looking at Hill beside him, as if asking whether he had heard her wrong.
After receiving Lake's look, Hill immediately became curious as well, then shook her head.
Lake smiled.
"Sorry, I didn't hear you clearly. What did you say? I have a younger brother?"
"Yes."
Meredith nodded. "By the time I spent all that time making my way home, Midgard had already become Earth, and the Midgardians had been replaced by Earthlings. So I found someone I had once dealt with as the High Priestess and struck a deal with him. That deal was you and your younger brother!"
According to Meredith, even her pregnancy had merely been part of a deal. Even sending Lake away after he was born was not because her maternal instincts had suddenly awakened and she had regretted her decision. It was simply because she had suddenly realized that the partner she had sought out was not very reliable.
In short.
Because of this, combined with Meredith's own concerns and the abnormalities she sensed when Lake was born, she made up her mind to send Lake far away while that partner was still gone.
Meredith's goal was to revive Midgard. She had made the deal with that partner for this purpose, and she had sent Lake away for the same reason.
Because...
"I discovered that he had no intention of helping me accomplish this goal."
"Oh?"
"After giving birth to you and your younger brother, I discovered that my immortality had been taken away. That was also why I returned here and entered my genetic code and data. I was no longer immortal."
"Your immortality... was taken away?"
Hearing this, Hill could not help saying, "How is that possible? No one can take away the immortality of