“Anyway, stubbornness runs in the blood of mother and daughter.”
Lina sat on the chair, sipping from her cup while organizing her thoughts.
While she was deciding between what should be said and what should be hidden, the tea ran out without her realizing it
“Can I pour you more?”
“No, no need.
I will explain briefly and finish the matter.”
Lina refused any more snacks, and crossed her legs.
Then she started talking, crossing her arms and moving her index finger.
“I will skip the forgotten ancient history.
Immediately, for the Tinilath bloodline, their great power comes with great backlash.
If a person is born with abilities from the beginning, he is unable to control them, and often goes mad at an early age.”
"this …!"
Yasiris stood up unconsciously.
Her desire to check on the sleeping Michael immediately conflicted with her mind, which demanded that she hear the details first.
As if realizing her condition, Lina waved her hand calmly.
“If he has not shown any symptoms yet, Michael is probably fine, so rest assured.
There are three possibilities, but we will know more with time.”
“What exactly are the side effects of Tenilath?
Does it have a reaction with every use of the ability?
Are there other abilities besides Pledge Magic and Beast Domestication?”
“Ah...that's why I didn't want to get into it, I knew it would take a long time.”
Lina sighed deeply, and Yasiris tried to calm her excitement.
She took several deep breaths, then sat down again and asked in a calm voice the most important thing: “At least tell me about the side effects in detail so that I can deal with any strange signs that Michael appears.”
“Well, that's a commendable attitude.
It seems like Lilia raised her daughter well, didn't she?”
Yasiris smiled hesitantly, following Lena's slight smile.
I felt strange whenever Lina, who seemed to be her age, spoke in this way, but she focused on the explanation.
“It varies from person to person, but usually, whoever awakens Tinilath’s abilities becomes violent in his temper.
After using the ability to a certain degree, he suffers from nightmares every night.
They endure it with their physical strength or take a nap during the day.
Either way, this is a perfect recipe for losing patience.”
“Is sleeping at night the only problem?”
“Yes.
It seems that the Night Clan has imposed some kind of curse...”
“Night Clan?”
“Something like that.”
Lena shook her head as if to say, “Leave it.” Yasiris had no choice but to accept.
Even though she heard an answer, her questions strangely increased.
“Anyway, the Tinilath family is very weak to negative emotions.
Sadness, anger, despair...they are easily affected by them, especially those who inherit abilities, as this is a kind of side effect.”
“Do you mean they suffer from depression or irritability?”
"Not necessarily, but their threshold for emotional outburst is low.
If you look at the emperors of Ozevia throughout history, you will find that tyrants and lunatics are remarkably numerous, right?
That is the context."
Lena shrugged her shoulders and twirled her index finger in the air.
“They don't sleep well at night, they work during the day, they feel slightly positive emotions and strong negative emotions...
It's strange that they don't go crazy.
So, the average lifespan of Tinilath is very short.”
"…Understood."
“In recent generations, fewer and fewer people have awakened their abilities, so perhaps things have improved a little.
It is said that the current Emperor revived the magic of the Tenilath Pledge after a long time.”
"Yes, this is correct."
“From the rumors circulating, it seems that he will die soon.
His obsession is not easy.
It seems that he received the side effects of the blood abilities firsthand.”
Yasiris responded with silence.
I asked for an explanation for Michael, but the more I heard, the more I thought Kazan was strange.
That wasn't sympathy.
She was compassionate, but not to the point where she would regret breaking up with herself.
But…
[Why did you abandon me?]
The first meeting, the first conversation.
She suddenly remembered one of the feelings she had seen in the eyes of the red-eyed man.
Deep despair.
Why?
Yasiris asked.
Did he really go crazy when his ex-girlfriend, Sari, died or left?
While she was recalling the past, Yasiris subconsciously opened her mouth: “Is it possible that he sometimes doesn’t have nightmares at night?”
In the mountain where they had wandered together, he seemed to have fallen asleep all at once.
Or did he actually stay awake the whole time?
She asked, hoping it would help Michael, and got an unexpected response: “If he sleeps with you, he will be fine.”
"What?"
“Didn’t you ask because the Emperor slept next to you and did not have nightmares?”
“That's true, but...”
Lina laughed lightly at Yasiris' hesitation.
“I told you, your blood is very rare.
The reason I took care of Lilia is… well, let’s get over that.”
“Don't go any further, tell me, Lina.
How long are you going to hide things from my mother?”
“You don't have to know.”
“I believe I have a right to know my lineage.”
Lena sighed at Yasiris' plea.
That was true.
She did not explain anything to Lisaris even after more than a year.
All she did was provide a place to live and some things, and visit her every few months to tell her news about Ozevia as if she had wished her well, and then she left.
“Have I been a little irresponsible?”
"Yes."
At the decisive response, Lina's lips curled up.
“I'm usually a fan of free Turkism.”
“Isn't that why my mother ran away?”
“...You're good at responding intelligently, aren't you?”
“It seems that life in the palace teaches different arts of dealing.”
Lina shook her head and leaned back on the chair.
She looked at the ceiling for a few moments without speaking, as if recalling the past.
Then a surprising word came out: “It was an experiment.”
"What?"
“I mean your grandmother, she wasn't Lilia.
She was an experiment sample of mine.
I picked her up because she has special blood.”
Yasiris was unable to interact with the unexpected past.
As she froze, not knowing how to respond, Lina's calm voice continued: "It was employment for a reasonable wage.
You know I'm not rude enough to conduct random human experiments, right?"
"…Yes."
"If you think about it, I'm the savior of her life.
I took a dying girl, saved her, and raised her well.
Now that I'm saying this, it sounds similar to your situation, doesn't it?"
Lina laughed softly and stretched.
She didn't want to bring it up, but once she started, the words came out easily.
“We maintained a good relationship and benefited from each other.
But she fell in love with a man from the neighbors and married him.
Just a handsome man, what did she like about him?
But the result was good.
Their daughter was very beautiful.
That is your mother, Lilia.”
“Ah...”
“I will not go into boring details of the past, so I will be brief.”
Lina paused for a moment, then jumped to the conclusion: “Lilia’s parents died early, so they entrusted her to me.
I raised her diligently, but as soon as she became an adult, she left a letter and ran away.
With a bag of jewellery!”
“Hmm.”
“And worse, the content of the letter?
She said she was going to go look for love and romance!
Crazy, right?
I should have known since she’s been reading romance novels all day.”
“Um.”
Yasiris was unable to defend her mother, so she let out a soft moan.
In her memory, Lilia was a gentle and elegant lady, but Lina's words made her seem like a reckless girl.
The feeling of falling in love at first sight cannot be described in words.Hahaha.
Because of that, I struggled to learn palace etiquette in order to marry him
...Now that she thought about it, maybe there were hints.
Yasiris felt embarrassed for no reason.
Perhaps because her mother died when she was young, she remembered her perfectly.
“You didn't communicate after that?”
“I was somewhere else, so I found out about Lilia’s disappearance months later.
She had no way to contact me.”
“Why?”
“Here, the continent is magically separated.
It's easy to get out, but it's hard to get in, and communication is almost impossible.
I knew that and left anyway, that naughty girl.”
Lena clicked her tongue.
When she returned home, she found the valuables missing, and Lilia absent.
She thought a disaster had happened, but when she found out she had escaped, she was distraught.
Although Lilia had not awakened her abilities, she had extremely rare blood.
So, I protected her carefully, but everything was in vain in an instant, so anger and frustration combined.
“Actually, I was a little angry.
A woman with no identity, how could she live alone in a cruel world?
To run away without a word while I was gone?
If you would just ask me...”
Despite her words, Lena knew that Lilia knew that she would not allow a trip to the continent.
So, running away was her only option, and she knew it.
'I felt some remorse and regret, but the disappointment and frustration were stronger.
She was angry with herself too.
'That's why I shouldn't get romantically involved.
How did I become close to an experience sample?
Why did I carefully raise offspring that had no abilities?'
'I was the one who cut her umbilical cord.
I raised her since she was a baby...
“...Anyway, I decided to consider her dead after she left of her own free will.
Decades passed and I almost forgot about her, and then you appeared.
You carry the same type of blood that runs in your mother’s veins.”