Attraction (Continued)

"Mm... ngh..."

Damn it, she couldn't listen to this at all. Artoria turned around and was startled.

Aya was really crying. Large tears fell onto her arms, soaking her black gauze dress.

"Y-You... stop crying..."

"Don't worry about me! I'm not your mother... I..." Aya wiped away her tears with one hand.

She didn't understand what was going on either. Rationally, she knew that Artoria was right, but... but...

The tears simply wouldn't stop. Her heart hurt, and that inexplicable sorrow could not be contained.

So this was what it felt like... to be rejected by one's own child?

Aya's children were all very gentle. They carefully protected their mother, because deep down, they understood that their seemingly omnipotent mother was actually very fragile.

Artoria dismissed all her armor and grabbed Aya's arm.

"So thin... so smooth... No, this isn't the time to be thinking about that." Artoria bit her tongue and forcibly regained her composure.

"Let go of me! Don't worry about me!" Aya cried out. "Let go of me..."

An inexplicable panic surged into Artoria's heart. Aya's cries contained something even more terrifying.

It was the resonance of another grieving mother.

The "Blessing of Eternity" activated once more, and Artoria again saw the world being destroyed.

For Tiamat, the sorrow of being rejected by her children was more painful than death.

If this continued, Tamamo-no-Mae might not even need to act—the world would be destroyed because of a single sentence from her.

Artoria gritted her teeth and directly embraced Aya. Aya tried to struggle, but the two lost their balance and fell onto the bed.

"Let go of me... let go..."

"Mom, I was wrong." Artoria spoke softly beside Aya's ear.

Aya's struggling stopped. "What did you say...?"

"I said, Mom, I was wrong." Artoria thought that calming