Volume 1 - The Revelation

<Author's Notes>

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With an awkward silence that followed an exclaimed expression, Mama Diana's expression went from surprised to a dreadful one at first before changing that to a motherly smile of hers while her eyes started to tear up a little bit.

[S-So... you knew...]

[From the start, yes...]

[Fufufu~ As expected... no... it's beyond what I've expected, my daughter Emilia...]

She said as she quickly stood up from her chair and immediately went to kneel in front of me for her to hug me. I can hear her crying and sobbing while she's wrapped her body around me pretty tight... It was the first time that I'd been hugged by my real mother in this world...

It's not a bad feeling to have, once in a while...

[I’m sorry that I left you with your Mama Clara… It is actually the only way for me to protect you from all of those who were eyeing you… I know you’re not a hero, but with your skills like that, you’ll be forced to fight with the Hero…]

I'm feeling guilty right now since I'm actually a Hero...

[Mama… I may have the memories of someone who have died in my past life, it’s not like I have any aspirations to even do that… 

I’m just going to do what I deemed to be alright for me to do so, and that is by not going to participate in a fight that has no merit to myself.]

[Is that your own judgment, or is it based on someone you have a complete memory of?]

[Purely my own!]

[Fufufu~ as expected of my daughter...]

Mama Diana replied as the two of us released our embrace from one another and wiped her tears on her face using a handkerchief that was near her. As expected, I can’t really say that I have the Hero skill too or any of my other SS Rank Skills that I have aside from my Light Attribute Elemental Magic. 

After all, it’s too risky to release all of your cards to others… Even if those others were actually my parents. If they, Clarence, or even Mama Clara have caught up being in a dire situation, I got the need to act fast in that manner…

Anyways, Mama Diana and I went to talk for a while, learning a lot of things from her related to magic and with Papa's sword fighting too from her wisdom when we realized that it was already near noon.

[And that’s all for now, my daughter Emilia…]

[Thank you for explaining everything, and clarifying everything that’s related to magic and swords too… Thank you, Mama…]

[You’re very welcome, Emilia. Come to me before bedtime, okay? I want to explain more about some things.]

She smiled at me as I nodded and bowed to her before leaving the room on my own… When I closed the door, I can sense Mama Clara's presence just beside me.

[How did it go, Emi-chan...?]

[It went well, Mama. But since she still has some things to do for the day, she ordered me to come before bedtime...]

[Is that so...? Would it be good if Mama also wants to come?]

[Unn~! Sure~!]

It is now decided that I would go over to Mama Diana's office before bedtime. Since the ceremony ended before noon, there's still a lot of time for any kind of deliberations as to what's going to happen next... But that'll wait after the rocky waves subside...

...

I went towards Mother’s office room when it was around just before bedtime. Mama Clara was with me during this time around since she seemed a little bit suspicious from earlier on what the two of us have talked about earlier.

[Ara? Emilia-chan? You’re he-]

[Hello, Diana-san.]

[Clara-san, you too?]

[Got a problem with that, Diana?]

[Actually, it’s a lot better if you were here Clara.]

The two of them greeted each other with a different atmosphere in mind... It seemed that the two of them greeted each other like how friends would do than a master-servant relationship that my two Mamas currently have but... I guess I’m not going to have a problem with them arguing or something…

[Clara, you can do Information Concealment Magic right?]

[Unn~? I can. But why though...?]

[I want Emilia to learn Information Concealment Magic.]

[Emilia? Who's that?]

Mama Clara tried to be oblivious about the whole hidden identity thing... So I guess, I'll have to break the ice with her as well, huh...?

[Mama Clara... I already knew...]

[You already knew about it, huh...? I thought that it would've happened sooner or later anyway, but I didn't expect that to happen this early...]

[Indeed... Because of that, I’m quite worried that if things were to become complicated, our Emilia-chan might be caught up in the crossfire between the two factions in the royal capital.]

[Oh… That one? I’m quite fine with it… I’m actually planning to make her learn that after I learned about her status.]

[Indeed… I guess we’re both on the same page here.]

To be honest, I’m just listening here with a dumb-like expression from their discussion as if the two of them have already taken over the initiative in doing so, without knowing that I already learned Information Concealment Magic…

After their discussion, Mama Clara then thought me how to make use of the Information Concealment Magic that I have...

[Emilia-chan… Since you know your skills, try to imagine it to make it disappear or imagine it to be enveloped in a blanket that’s invisible to our eyes. 

And of course… We’ll do that while you’re in a constant Appraisal by Diana-chan.]

[E-Ehh? Is that all?]

[Emilia-chan, don’t think that doing something like this is really easy though… It took me around 2 weeks for me to do so. For now, let’s proceed with that tonight.]

[I know you can do it, Emi-chan~!]

[Yes Mama Diana, Mama Clara. I’ll do my best.]

They smiled at each other at first before starting the training. 

While we were at that, I tried to pretend on concentrating to conceal my skills, but as soon as Mother bombarded me with the Appraisal skill, I can feel as if I were suffocating. 

I then immediately tried to imagine my skill being enveloped in a blanket that cannot be seen with a naked eye which makes the skill vanish but that’s what the Information Concealment Magic would usually do, I think...

So when that happened, I then tried to think that what if I put my skills somewhere that cannot be seen or appraised… Something akin like deleting it or creating it within the body, or putting it in my Dimension Storage or something like that?

[Unique Skill - Skill Creation has been acquired.]

[Unique Skill - Skill Deletion has been acquired.]

[SS Rank - Dimensional Transfer Skill has been acquired.]

You know… Sometimes… I really hate it… I so much hate this that it doesn’t just become too convenient, but also too much for me to endure.

So in that manner, I’ll just go and hide everything too suspicious…

Status Info:
Name: Emi Meire Schultz
Job: Maid
Age: 5 years, 10 months, 4 days old
Level: 5 – 28/249 EXP
HP: 150
MP: 180
STR: 150
INT: 500
DEF: 150
DEX: 150

Blessings: None

Skills: 
- Magic Swordsman (S)
- Thought Acceleration (A)
- Chantless Casting (B)
- Eagle Eye (B)
- Water-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
- Fire-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
- Wind-Attribute Elemental Magic (C)
- Mage (C)
- Swordsman (C)
- Translation Magic (D)
- Maid (D)
- Cooking (E)

Alright, I guess this one should be alright now… So… I guess it’s around 15 minutes after I concentrated this much but I think this one’s fine.

[Mmmmmuuu...!]

[Diana?]

[My Emilia-chan really grows up too quickly… I can’t really believe that you’re a 5-year-old…]

[Did she do it, Diana?]

[Yes! She even exceeded my expectations!]

Ah… If that’s certainly the case… Yeah, let’s just go with that…

[Ummm… Clara?]

[Yes, Diana?]

[Can you prepare some light snacks for the three of us?]

[Ah, certainly...]

Mama Clara quickly goes out of Mother’s office room where she then sat on a couch near me as she invited me to sit down on her lap… I’ll take up on that offer though!

When I sat on her lap, she starts ruffling my red hair and she then sighed heavily for a while before speaking her mind...

[Emilia-chan… You’re really getting hang of it, don’t you?]

[What do you mean by that, Mother?]

[To be honest, I don’t even know how to react to your Blessing…]

[O-Oh… I-Is that alright?]

[I don’t really know how to react even with the time that I allotted to myself. 

Whether the memories of the one that lived in your past life would actually be the actual Emilia or did Emilia exist before your otherworldly memories manifested within you… I just don't know how to react at all...]

She pondered with a solemn tone... I didn't try to move my head or anything since she was still ruffling and playing with my hair in that manner, but I can hear from her tone that she was undoubtedly undecided as to how she would react to all of that events...

She still just discovered that her own daughter has twice as many S-Rank skills as her own, even discovering an SS-Rank skill on me, then to also discover that the Goddess of Creation has blessed me too, and to even have her exposed to the reality of me manifesting otherworldly memories since birth...

It must've felt like her stomach was punched many, many times... That's why I don't even intend on revealing anything else until the time was right... at least, that's the plan for now...

[You shouldn’t be worried like that, Mama… If I counted how long I’ve lived in my past life, and how long I’ve lived in this current life, I would actually be around the same age range as Mama Diana and Mama Clara though…]

[Eh? Seriously? Your past life died that young? So it means that Emilia herself manifested as you as a reincarnated version and not when the actual memories of your past memories manifested after she was born. Am I right about that...?]

[Yes, Mama... You're right with that conjecture.]

I can hear her that she sighed yet again but this time, it was a sound that resembled a sigh of relief. If she's relieved on that part, then I'm happy that I cleared up some of her burdens...

[It’s fine, Mama… Although the contents of how I died in my past life would be too gruesome, can I share it with you, Mama Diana?]

[I’m fine with that… But at the very least, share this secret with Clara too y’know…]

Y'know...? I can somewhat hear an accent from what she said as well as her vocabulary as well instead of the formally soft-spoken but also familiar way of speaking that Mama Diana usually speaks.

[Mama, I didn’t know that you could speak with an accent like that...]

[Ehh… Come on now Emilia-chan, don’t tease your mother like that. I’m trying to be that casual, y’know…?]

[Alright Mama… So you’re fine with sharing it with Clara- err… Mama Clara about that?]

[Sharing about what exactly, Emilia-cha-]

Clara who has entered suddenly with light snacks on the tray she was holding said that, and she then stumbled upon me and Mama Diana where I sat on her lap.

[Diana, it’s unfair… I haven’t made Emi-chan sat on my lap in a long while…]

[Well, since I and Emilia have talked about that part, I guess you should know it too.]

She said as Clara closed the door and locked it. She then darkened the light around the room for a little bit as she then responded with a question.

[Emi-chan, share about what exactly?]

[Well… Mama Clara, Mama Diana... This would be a somewhat long story… Would you two care to listen...?]

After I asked the two of them some questions, the two of them nodded. What I'm about to say for the two of them would be a good story that ended abruptly. It's a revelation that might look so tragic to anyone who's heard it that it might as well be treated as fictitious instead of reality.

[What I'm about to tell you two... is the story of Nakamura Kurayami... a man who is a husk of his former self in a world where everything seems to be within his reach.]