(Mi)
"I see... so that was it..."
Upon the divine throne, Mi Xue, who had absorbed the Consciousness Fragment, held her forehead in distress.
"So Auntie only woke up because my fragment called you here to stop me?"
"Do you know everything now?"
"Mm, I know it all."
Pointing at her temple, she spoke with her eyes closed.
"The fragment that spoke with you doesn't belong to anyone's consciousness. If I had to put it into words, it was Father and Mother's love for Mi Xue. Mi Xue is very happy to have taken it back. Thank you, Auntie."
"Love... I could indeed feel it. But since you know that, you should give up on your plan."
Yet Mi Xue narrowed her eyes and continued protesting.
"I can't, because Mi Xue loves Father and Mother too."
No one had ever told her that she should never have been born, yet she had stubbornly pursued the plan to "revive Father."
A little angry, I reached out and pinched her nose.
"Sigh, you're only stubborn with your words now."
With Ceruno and me suppressing her in terms of sheer scale, what else could this little girl do?
"Then do you know what Black Rabbit wants to do?"
"...Mm, Mi Xue already understands Father's thoughts."
Really? Had there actually been a clue I'd missed?
"What is it?"
"Auntie doesn't intend to tell Mi Xue the clue, so Mi Xue doesn't intend to tell Auntie the truth either."
She spoke in a petulant tone, but her expression looked rather...
Lonely?
"My little niece, tell me, won't you?"
I gently placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Since you call me Auntie, we're family. When family runs into troubling matters, they can discuss them and confide in one another, rather than bottling everything up alone like