" What does this mean, do you still doubt what I said to be the truth ? .
Well, I'm still doubtful, yes, after all if I remembered correctly, you had a lot of stuff going on, but you didn't tell me about any sort of details about it, unless I found out by accident or a slip of tongue, so how do you expect that I take your words for granted, don't look at me like that, you were the one who made himself lose his credibility to me, so you got only yourself to blame actually .
Her words were correct, her argument was logical, but it still hurt me quite bad to lose her faith in me all of sudden, she thought that the lost expression on my face, was because I was trying to to dissuade her from thinking like that or something, while in fact, it was a genuine reaction, not an act or anything like that .
Seeing that she seemed to have already an idea on mind, she said :
Wanting me to believe you is quite easy, tomorrow bring those two girls to the house and let them express what their true feelings was like, if it really was as you said, that they love you equally and willing to accept this kind of relationship, then I promise to accept them having this kind of relationship with you, what do you say ? .
What a headache, that was my honest reaction at what she was suggesting, having Tokiko to attend wasn't that difficult and the same goes for Mari, but that could only work if they come here individually, but gathering the two together in the room, that would be quite difficult, not to mention how shocked will my mom be when she get to know that I was dating the principal .
There were also the problem of Mari still not wanting to be exposed to Tokiko, she wasn't ready for something like that, neither was I, but looking at the expression and hearing the tone of mother, I understood that the matter wasn't negotiable nor discussable, which brought me a massive headache .
There was also the fact that she wanted them to confess their love to me in front of her, something which no matter how hard I tried to wrap my head over, I felt that it would be something quite difficult to make them do this, I really shouldn't have decided to come clean with her .
In the end, not only I ended up angering her, I put myself in a difficult situation that the mere thought of it unfolding seemed to be screaming at me to turn on my heels and run away, I was really beginning to put such a maneuver in mind, running away from all that was going on here didn't seem to be a bad solution at all .
Even though I still tried to tell her a few excuses that I hoped to make her change her mind about this, she still insisted on doing this, feeling quite helpless, I could only shrug my shoulders in resignation and nod my head, seeing me nodding the stern expression on his face softened a bit, then she said in soothing tone :
From your expression, I can tell that there might be some problems with me asking this, but I'm just trying to make sure that they were indeed the people you remembered from the past and wanting to make sure that they will be willing to go along one another in the future, if there was a future for this kind of relationship, I'm also able to tell that you already anticipated my response, but didn't expect it to be so sever, I bet you think that you should have left me in the dark about all of this, right ? .
I was caught red-handed, but at this point of time, I really found that her finding about this now was a bit pointless at least that was what I thought, but then without waiting for me to say a word, she continued to say :
I'm also aware that you were just trying to be considerate of how I feel after knowing this, I have raised you to be this compassionate after all, but Ryuu, sometimes you being compassionate like this might turn into a weakness that people try to exploit, I'm happy that you were still thinking of me in this kind of situation, but that more than enough reason to take the role of your mother more seriously and figure what those guys intentions were, I have the right to do so as your mother, don't you think ? .
Seeing that I was once again cornered by her words, I couldn't help but nod again and at me nodding hesitantly she smiled and suddenly opened her arms at me, I was a bit embarrassed at first, but this was another situation where no won't be a good answer in, so in the end I bit the bullet and embraced the hug, even though she always tried to appear strong when she was giving me an advice just now .
I was now able to feel how restless she was, her heartbeat was quick and seemed to be not slowing down too, so seemed to be even more tensed than me, after a few seconds with the hug still continuing on, I heard her talk to herself in almost a whisper, she was saying :
At least, you had only two past lives girlfriends, if you were to have three, things might really turn out to be quite ugly .
Hearing her say this, I almost couldn't help but laugh at her words out loud, but I kept my composure tightly, not willing to risk flaring her anger any more than I already did, but it seemed that she didn't seem to let that matter drop, she looked at me dead in the eyes and said :
Those two girlfriends of yours, were the only ones you have right ? .
I wasn't able to make my mind on whether should I tell her about maybe Sophia and the girl made of light in my memories, but my hesitation seemed to already be the answer, I saw her suddenly stretching my cheeks with her hands being like a pair of clippers, she looked at me with a look that seemed to be saying ' tell me everything or else .
Seeing her like this, I finally decided that it was another evil that I needed to deal with and told her about the girl in my memories who I hadn't met, I didn't tell her about Sophia, as I myself quite conflicated about what to say on that girl, she could be a spy in the end, or she could be just playfully playing on me .
So you have three girlfriends from your past lives, you have already met two of them and the third one is like a goddess or something like that, am I right with my summarize ? .
I nodded my head indicating that she was indeed correct, about the goddess part I corrected her that the girl in my memories identified herself as a Celestial being, someone who matched me in lifespan and a being that had quite the amount of strength .
She had stars shining in her eyes again at my words and she actually surprised me with how easy she accepted this piece of news, I thought that she might flare again at me or something, but that didn't seem to be no longer the case, seeing her like this I couldn't help but ask, saying :
" So Mom, is there a particular reason to why you didn't have much reaction to this ?.
I saw the she cupped her chin and said, sounding like an old wise man all of a sudden, she was imitating the tone of someone from the comics she read before, perhaps, she said :
If I kept getting angry over everything you say to me, then I would probably end up in having wrinkles all over my face and not to mention that I would still give my final evaluation of whether this relationship will continue or cease to exist tomorrow, so a third person would indeed complicate things, if I really gave my approval, so there was no need to make much a fuzz over something that have yet to happen .
" If you keep trying to imitate other people, I do believe that you will indeed get wrinkles, don't glare at me, I will help you in fixing that .
I said this and used Fixed Period for the second time, but unlike with the situation from before, my mother had no special past life as it seemed, she seeing the green energy swirling around her, began to actually panic and say things like I don't want you to delete my memories and nonsense like that, after hearing her say this kind of stuff, I really was beginning to think that it would be better to burn all the books from now on .
She closed her eyes, thinking that this would have shield her or something, but after a few seconds, she seemed to have lost her patience and opened her eyes slightly, seeing no swirling green energy, she turned to me and asked about what exactly did I do to her, seeing her current expression .
I couldn't help but found her reaction a bit funny, but just as I released a chuckle, I was forced to parry the jab that soon followed in tracks, figuring that she might really fight me at any moment, I shook my head and pointed at the nearest mirror .
She seeing me gesturing for her to look at the mirror, she first touched her face as if making sure that I hadn't transform it to anything other than what it originally was, then after she was certain that it was as the same as before, only then did she finally took a look at herself in the mirror, seeing the face that looked back at her, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and I saw tears flowing on her cheeks nonstop .
I already accustomed to how women able to cry, no matter what the situation was, left her to finish crying her tears of hopefully happiness out, whatever that I needed to talk to her about can wait, as she was mesmerized by the mirror, I was mesmerized by Suguha ability to read the mood and create a good situation where we can talk all this time without being interrupted, what a good job this was .
Oh, right, I should be introducing the two, Suguha and Haruka to one another with both working together, I can't imagine how the two might be able to increase their strength, In fact I still don't know how strong exactly was Suguha, our skirmish with one another ended without even a need to exchange blows, so I really don't know who was stronger between the two .
But just by combat experience, I feel like it would be Suguha-san win, she did work as an assassin after all, so both might be able to teach one another a few more things and the two might even help each other in breaking out of their shells .
Haruka had already shown a few signs that her shell was beginning to crack, Suguha on the other hand seemed to be enclosing on herself even more after I planted that seal into her, so them being even resembling each other in character much be quite effective in helping them progressing forward .
I also should ask Suguha's opinion on whether will she be willing to join the Strikers or she would like not to do so, as I finished organizing my thoughts, I felt a slight movement beside me and it was my mom in her old or new appearance, she looked like she was a girl on her 20s .
But she had already broken 30s in age, as I was thinking like that, I suddenly received a chop on my head by her hand, it made me discarded all those weird thoughts that were on my mind .
Just now you thought of something rude didn't you, is it related to how I look compared to my actual age, right ? .
" Hah, haha, stop kidding Mom, why would I be thinking about something like that, you know that in my eyes, you are the most beautiful woman that have ever lived .
I lied without blinking my eyes, after all, the moment she turned her head towards me before, I saw the ghost of death looming behind her, so I decided to pick the safe choice and lie about not being thinking of something that could be considered by most women as rude .
She seemed to not buy it one bit, my mom was able to read me clearly like the back of her hand, I too was able to do this in most cases, but in this particular case, I really hoped that she wouldn't been able to read my true intentions .
She smiled at me looking at her a bit nervously and finally said :
I will forgive you just because you were smart enough to lie about it, but tell me, how long will this nostalgic look you give me remain for ? .
" Um, the answer is both forever and as long as you wanted it to, that spell I use decide on the perfect age for someone, which he or she, himself or herself would like to continue living as and bam, they would be granted their wishes and their bodies will continue to appear youthful until they die .
" But don't worry mom, in your case, I will be able to prolong your life until you don't want to live at all .
As I said this and before I realize the mistake with my words, I directly got smacked in the head, I wanted to apologize, but since i already got punished, the words were swallowed back by me and I sat there on the couch counting the stars that were painted in the ceiling and found myself thinking in a very funny thought .
Regina really still like to watch the stars, as I was thinking like this, a sudden twist on my waist, forced me back to reality, only to see that my mother was looking at me angrily for some reason, I asked her what might the problem be and all that she did was pulling something from her purse and I heard her say :
Look, do I still share any similarity with the woman in the picture, tell me ? .
So that was why she was looking at me as if wanting to strangle me, her problem was with the ID picture, she now indeed didn't look much like the woman in the picture, but that should be easy to work out, all she needed to do was go and get a new picture taken and everything will be back to normal .
As I told her about this solution, I saw that she seemed to be smiling happily again, I was about to get hit again, thinking a weird thing about my mother's brain, but I was saved by Suguha coming to notify us that dinner was ready .