Chapter 170 - Insane Parent and Daughter (Interlude) (1/2)
“Welcome back, mother.”
When I arrived at the mansion where I was staying, I was greeted by the daughter of the demon tribe who called me mother.
She was sitting at the bottom of the grand staircase in front of the large entrance, looking at me with sleepy eyes.
“What is it? You’re still up? Staying up late is bad for your skin, you know.”
“I’ve decided that I’m going to stay up until mother comes home. That’s what I’ve decided.”
Oh, I see.
She’s still so obsessed with the weirdest things.
It’s a puddle of dirty magic that occurred in various parts of the world during the world clash.
If it is unlucky enough to overlap with the city center, it will become a ‘corrupted city’.
This girl is a child I found there.
She was standing next to the corpse of her parents who had died of magic poisoning, staring at me blankly without crying. It seemed interesting, so I brought her along.
Creatures contaminated by dirty magic can no longer live in normal places.
This is because you will not be able to breathe where there is no magic, and even if there is magic, your body will reject it if it is not clean.
Only constant immersion in high concentrations of magic will bring the contaminated person peace, and eventually everything from their internal organs to muscles will stop functioning, and they will die in an instant.
I gave her my ‘mud’ to drink, so she’ll probably live longer than a normal person.
She can now contaminate her body with normal magic power and circulate it efficiently.
I’ve been taking care of her, and before I knew it, she started calling me ‘mother’ and became very fond of me.
It’s okay, though, because it’s convenient. At any rate, she obeys my commands very well.
I can do things with her that I can’t do with my body, which has so many restrictions.
She is literally the arms and legs of my body, which is a snake.
There are very few beings that are so convenient for me.
“You went to Dailan, right? Was there anything interesting?”
“Yes, I did. I met some old faces.”
“Wow, it’s unusual for mother to make a face like that. Was it a friend?”
She ruffled her gray hair and sighed sleepily.
“No, my brother.”
“Mother, you have a brother? Uncle?”
She tilted her head, touching the two horns on the back of her head that were unique to the goat tribe.
“Ah, I had a brother. Now called Alba Germain, a heartless bastard who chose the woman he loved over his own sister.”
It was tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of years ago, but even thinking back on it now makes me angry.
If only it hadn’t been for that dragon.
If only that guy hadn’t existed.
“What’s that? Did he betray you?”
Betrayed, yes.
I was betrayed by my own, the only person I thought I could trust in this world.
It was frustrating to say something like that, so I ignored it and moved deeper into the mansion.
“… Hey, hey. That brother, should I kill him?”
“Don’t. You’re no match for him. After all, he’s my family. You can’t fight him with simple strength alone.”
“But you see, I’m strong, aren’t I? I’ve killed all the people in this mansion.”
You really are a foolish girl.
I taught her how to use her power, and she immediately got carried away.
She took in my ‘mud’. You should be able to do at least that.
But compared to us, such power is meaningless.
Ancient magic that corrupts the mind instead of the body might be able to resist a little, but I didn’t teach this girl that.
“You killed them and took this place without asking me, didn’t you? Well, that’s fine. I was just looking for a base on the Sphere Continent.”
“Isn’t that right? Don’t you think mother should praise me more?”
“Don’t get carried away. Now, give me a report during my absence.”
I was poking fun at the despair and anxiety that had originally taken root in her psyche, and it grew into a ridiculous personality disorder.
I thought about depriving her of her ego like the rest of them, but it was hard to get rid of this one because it was so interesting.
“I gave those idiots the weapons from the Sphere Continent route and the medicine mother mentioned.”
“Hm, that’s pretty sudden, isn’t it?”
It’s been two years since we made contact with the other side.
They were happy to explain the philosophy and purpose of the organization, which I didn’t really understand, so I gave them a little help as a test, but they hadn’t taken any action until now.
I don’t know why they suddenly decided to move again.
“If they wanted that medicine, are they planning to go on a rampage in the near future?”
“I’ve given them all the explanations mother told me, so I guess so.”
The drug, a byproduct of my research for the last few thousand years, is a failed product with an extremely short shelf life after it is refined.
It’s costly, it always kills the user, and most importantly, it’s not even a tenth as effective as it’s supposed to be.
Two weeks in a sealed container.
If it comes into contact with the air, it will turn to gas in two minutes, so there is no use for it, and I was wondering if I should dispose of it.
But now that I’ve made it, I was looking for some disposable lab animals that I could use for data, and those idiots jumped at the chance.
They’re really stupid.
They knew that if they used it, they would surely die, but they still wanted it.
Do they really hate the demon race and magic that much?
There are more than a few people who do not like the existence of magic, which has suddenly become a part of their lives due to the collision of worlds.
This is because there are many fields that have rejected the science and technology that mankind has built up and made it a thing of the past.
They believe that they are the pinnacle of primates and that they should always have the upper hand in a chaotic world.
It makes me laugh.
I am the apex.
No matter how smart the humans are, no matter how strong the beastmen are, no matter how skilled the demons are in magic.
The only one who can transcend all life and reign on the throne is this Clay End.
Now I’m stuck in this miserable state, but in time I will regain that form.
That’s when all the stupid creatures will bow down to me.
In accordance with my wishes, they will give me everything they have.
I’m looking forward to it.
Ah, that’s right. I forgot.
“Oh, by the way, I came up with a name.”
“A name? Mother’s?”
I was climbing the stairs, wriggling my snake body, when my daughter lifted me from behind.
“Yeah, Clay. I’ve decided to call myself Clay End.”
“What do you mean? You’ve been stubbornly refusing to make a name for yourself.”
She clutched me to her chest and climbed the stairs with a firm step.