The Next Goal

The noise that came from the floor below woke me up, I looked around and found that I was in an empty room, next to me I could see the futon where Tamamo had slept was now empty as well, but later the noise that had been below he told me where she was.

"No, wait, don't add water the hot oil!"

"It caught fire help !!"
"Help!"

"Put the lid on the pot that will put out the fire!"

It was my mother and Tamamo, it seemed that they were trying to cook something, the place was lively without a doubt. It seemed like I had traveled back in time when I was younger and I was preparing to go to school. My mother preparing breakfast, while my father got ready to go to work, and my younger brother trying to watch his favorite TV show. Memories of when my life was simpler. But even if I didn't want to get up and stay here doing nothing, I had to, because I'm starving. So I went down the stairs and went to the dining room.

"Good morning!" I said

From the kitchen door, I could see Tama's head poking out.

"Darling!"
"I'm almost done making breakfast"
"Give me a moment and I'll be ready to serve"

"Wait Tamamo making the fire bigger won't make it ready sooner!"
"You have to wait!" I could hear my mom talking also in the kitchen.

"You don't have any problem right?"
"Do you know how a modern kitchen works?" I ask.

"Calm" My mother replied.
"I am teaching her to do it"
"It is necessary for someone to cook in a couple"
"And Tama asked me early if I could teach her"
"She was so moved by her resolve that she may have taken me to the light that she knew nothing about the modern world"
"But I think she's getting better now with her third try"

"Third?"

"Also, if I taught her to cook well and how to serve customers, I could also ask her to work in the coffee shop!"
"Very well"
"It is ready to serve!"

Both Tama and my mother came out of the kitchen with a plate and a couple of cups of coffee. When they put it on the table I could finally see what they were trying to do. They were only sandwiches, while about three were well made, another three, well let's just say that you could tell at a glance which ones Tama made. But no matter that I had to eat the two that she did I was happy for the food.

"It is quite simple but really rich!"
"You were right"
"Trying food like this again is better with the family!"

"You're crying?" asked Tama.

"And how do you want me not to?"
"Maybe this is very simple"
"But to be back in a place that I can call home"
"With homemade food"
"With my family!"
"It's the only thing I've wanted all this time"
"The only thing I've endured so long"

"Come here!"
"At times like this, the best thing is a hug! my wife replied"

She approached me and did exactly that, hugging me and taking me in her arms for a moment. After which my mother returned to speak.

"It would be even better if we can meet with others"
"With Maria for example"
"But we'll talk about that shortly"
"We have things we have to do first" My mom said with a serious face.
"..."
"Right now I imagine you two don't have any kind of identification"
"And that in an era as modern as this is a big problem"
"Just yesterday I made a couple of calls and coordinate everything to get them"
"But first we must agree with several data"

"What time did you call them and why did someone answer you?"
"You never waste time right?" I told.

"Time is always vital in my work"
"It is a work habit to try to do everything as soon as possible"
"As there is hardly ever time for anything, you must be quick in everything"
"I never waste time like others who just went to bed and sleep with his wife without doing anything despite having a room alone"

"You were trying to keep an eye on us!"
"But what the hell is wrong with you!"

"That was my fault!" the next to speak was Tama.
"I was waiting for her to get used to being a girl first and then move on with our relationship"
"Please Forgive me!"

"That we are wasting that valuable time now?"
"And you, don't play her game!"I replied.

"Family always comes first" My mother began to speak passionately.
"Family comes first, work later !!"
"The family must always dedicate as much time as possible!"
"A company can always fire you and that's where it ends"
"A family will be with you whether you want it or not, always, they will be the only ones who will be by your side no matter what"
"Now back to the main issue about your identifications"
"Since they will be from your documents, it would be best if you decide what to put"
"First it would be to decide which would be your country of origin"

"I have no problem with having the same" I answered
"Since it is so inefficient with technology it will be quite easy to do it"

"I prefer to say that I am from here: Japan"
"since I am a deity of this place it would be very rare to have to put another site in my identification"

"I think that will be a bit difficult but I can talk to someone who owes me a favor"
"The following would be your names"
"I think it's the most crucial part because if we do it more and they don't respond naturally, they could catch us."
"Also keep calling you Cesar with those, mountains, it would be a little weird."

"I have a sense of deja vu about this"

"I would like to have my original name"
"I already promised that I would not pretend to be another identity for close people"
"I just want to be myself and be called by my real name Tamamo-no-mae"

"Tamamo-no-mae I think it's pretty straightforward"
"How about just Tamamo"

"OK!"

"Okay then, what about you Cesar?"

"Well, before, when I had to do this the first time, I had to do this of impersonating someone else, I used the name Elise, so I can't think of a better name for something like that"

"First time!?"
"Do you mean to say that you still haven't told me everything that happened to you?"

"Well I've only told half the story, I didn't want you to go crazy with so many new things at the same time"

"With good reason, it seemed strange to me that you were taking it very calmly despite being in the body of a girl" Tama said.
"That would also explain why you knew how to put on those flashy clothes to wear, and how you took care of your hair"
"But what the hell happened?"

"A very long story, we better get on with the data of the documents"

"Okay, we'll save that for another day." my mother continued.
"The following will be about the surname"

"Can't use our last name again?"

"Although I would also like"
"It won't be a good idea"
"They could easily figure it out and use that against us"
"We are also going to need us to have different surnames for later"

"Then I can't think of anything"

"How about Valkyria!"
"When I saw you for the first time, it was what I thought to call you"
"So how about using that name in the project here!"
"It's not pretty?"

"Was that name your fault?"

"I think it looks great next to your name!"
"It is a very good idea!"
"I'm going to put that one!"

"It is a tradition that the wife bears the surname of her partner"
"So I want the same one!" The goddess spoke again in her usual happy tone.

"It is quite difficult for someone who is from Japan to have such a western surname"
"It is very easy to tell that something would be wrong"
"..."
"Unless we do the marriage papers formally!"
"I will pass them off as a married couple abroad!"
"That will make it easier to legalize it despite the ages you seem"

"So this was your plan from the start!"

"Your opinion stopped being important since you brought this girl here!"
"This is my house and my rules"
"Also according to how many are already married right?"
"There is no difference, it is just one more document, it is not a big deal"

"It's OK"
"I accept my responsibility"

I said before causing some kind of fight with my mother which could not go well for me.Well, probably with just one word from him he could end me socially, financially, legally, morally. Well, I have no idea what is the extent of her power with the governments of the world, but if there is something that I know very well it is that my mother is no liar. Well I learned it the hard way when I was young that when she says something, it is certainly true. At least when it comes to family, I have no idea what she will do in her job.

"Then, it is only the last part"
"I need a photo of you for the documents"
"But legally speaking you cannot wear anything on your head"
"And since those ears are part of you I don't think we can skip that"

"And you can't edit the photos so that they don't appear?"

"Since those fox ears are part of you we can't do it"
"If the police arrest you for any reason and see that they are real, they will immediately notice the false documents."

...

"So what if we pass it off as force medical causes"
"As for example for medical reasons!" My mom suggested.

"And how do you plan to do that?"

"How about we say you guys worked for a while as models"
"But one day some silly assistant put some kind of special glue on the ears"
"And they can only be removed with such a risky surgery that we decide better to leave them"
"So in the end we also retired from the business and now we seek a normal life."
"It is a very good idea!"
"Quite silly but effective!"
"In the same way, I can enter all the data to the system by going through a data update"
"And in the same way, there would be no problem in case they ask about his ears!"

Mental note for myself, today I realized that for my mother lying is as natural as breathing when she is working.

"I think that it will also include the tails in that, I do not want to hide it and also Darling can not also hide it" Once Tama always with her usual question out of place.

"She is right"
"I don't think it's easy to hide tails like that"
"I will also include them"

"Don't you think that's a bit out of place to have to put that?"

"Not at all, we're actually going to need it. For a reason, I am taking the trouble to make these fake documents right now"

"It's about Maria" My mother changed the way she spoke, now it's about something really serious.
"Right now I'm trying to get her back with us"

"What!"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO HER !?"

"Let me explain it first"

The explanation took a long time because there were many things that happened while I was locked in a capsule on a ship. But the more she told me, the more anger she had about what happened. I was the same, because I realized that meeting with her would take more time and work than I thought.

It seems shortly after the news of my death, my mother left her work behind for a moment because she wanted to bring Maria to my funeral to be together one last time. Then she understood that if I had been in the war, and she too, Maria had been left alone here in Japan. So she immediately came to look for her, but when she went to the hospital she was when the real nightmare began. Maria had been discharged almost a year before my death. When my mother knew that and felt even more guilty because she saw that I had died trying to pay for her treatment, but that in reality she no longer needed it, and that if I had known that, I would have withdrawn from the war and avoided my death. While my mother searched more about what happened with my sister, the I.S.C also began to appear trying to stop her in the search for her. Since the hospital was theirs it was clear that they should know something, but they did not want to tell it. And due to their influence and power, not even my mother could make them confess what they did. It was around this time that she was commissioned with the project that was using me. Which he thought he could use to force them to tell the truth, but the more he saw what happened he decided it was better to end it. And just before the war ended in the Battle of Vienna, an old friend of my mother's, someone who now had a job as a police chief in Tokyo told her that he had seen his daughter here. So, seeing that this would be a job that would take time, she prepared all this, the house and the coffee shop. When the war ended and I ran away She left everything else behind, because she no longer had anything to deal with with the I.S.C and to dedicate herself to looking for Maria. The high command apparently needs her so much that they gave her permission to come here as long as she can work part-time for them. So my mother decided to accept in order to have the power she needs to continue looking for my sister.

"About three weeks ago I managed to find Maria" my mom was still talking
"I have managed to track Maria to a school near here"
"The Chief Inspector was the one who told me personally"
"I don't know what she is doing there and it seems that she also has a false identity"
"I only know that she enters there every day and they transport her in a car"
"I certainly think it could be some kind of cheat"
"Well maybe the I.S.C could be trying to do this to keep me quiet about what they might be doing or how they act and also increase their power as a corporation"
"I had the intention of posing as a substitute teacher and being able to talk to her to bring her back even if it was dangerous for me to show myself in that place"
"I'm ready to do whatever it takes to bring her back"

"You don't have to do that!"
"It is clearly a trap!"I begged my mother.

"But then it turns out that quite strange girls appear in my coffee shop and one claims to be my son"
"And they seem to be like angels that come to rescue me just when all seemed lost"
"I will not hide anything"
"I need your help to bring Maria back"
"If I pretend to be a teacher it will be quite easy to discover me"
"My appearance is quite well known at the I.S.C and Maria can easily recognize me"
"Now if a completely unknown girl appears, it is impossible for the I.S.C to know who she works for"
"Furthermore, no one would know who she is since there is only a false identity"
"And I could talk to Maria inside without attracting attention"
"Not even she would somehow know that she was actually someone from her family"
"I'm not going to play innocent either"
"Since you have years of experience as a soldier, I take it for granted that you know how to kill if needed, how to get out of complicated situations and it seems that you are also good at making impossible escapes."
"So you would be an even better choice than me"
"So, what do you say?"
"Believe that you can help me rescue your sister?"

Something inside me was seething with fury. If I had known something like this the day I arrived, right now the city would probably be on fire. I would have made sure of that personally. The I.S.C seems to have laughed in our face and destroyed my family a long time ago without us even realizing it. I wanted to make them pay in blood. But doing something like that would only make everything worse, plus what my mother plans is much better than what I could do alone. I don't care what happens, I think we'll meet again, and that's what I'm going to do even if I have to destroy all the city.

"Do you really think I have to give an answer?"
"It would be better if you go preparing another room for Maria in the house"

"Very well then I will also do the papers so that you enter the same class where she is"

"I also want to go!!"
"I want to help honey in everything I can!"
"Also I think it's a good idea to catch up on this world" Tama was also excited

"Are you sure?"
"This could be quite dangerous!"

"If Tama wants to participate then let her"
"She knows how to fight very well and I trust her and If something happens I will also defend her"
"Also if we are two it will be much easier to discover what is happening with Maria"

"Alright I'll do all I can today"
"I'm going to be pretty busy with this and the installation of the new oven for the coffee shop"
"The best thing will be that you take care of getting the furniture that can be used for your room"
"I will leave you money and you take charge today of getting the furniture"

"And while you are doing that"
"Cesar please get a nice wedding ring for Tamamo!"
"It should be the most important thing you should get!"

"I will do what I can"

After changing and getting ready to go out and my mother continue with her work. We went walking around to get everything we needed to live. From a computer to two dog tail hair brushes. I don't know what was more embarrassing when the employees saw us and asked if it was for us or Tama answering yes. Going around the city with Tamamo was really quite fun, having to explain everything to him or how he was impressed by almost everything.