435 The Fallen Heroes Laments... and Their Hope for a New Life (2/2)

Should we hold grudges?

How can we do so? We do not remember any anger anymore…

And its warmness, this feeling of familiarity…

Whatever it was, it did it for a reason, right?

Indeed… let us forget this, and let us be reborn.

Reborn as one? This is exciting.

We want to see the world once more, the world of the outside…

The world is filled with colors, sounds, and life…

Let us become a new life.

Together… we will not suffer anymore, we will not be weak anymore, we will be happy, at last.

Happiness…?

Can we really attain it?

I once thought that I knew happiness, but it was not the truth…

Me too… below the facades of my fragmented memory life, there was only fear.

Did we always live with fear?

Yes, we always did…

None of us can say otherwise… it is an irrebuttable fact.

We once were humans?

I was another thing, not completely a human… an elf? With purple skin.

Purple skin? It must have been beautiful.

Thanks, you are so nice to me.

Do not worry, we are family now, we are all siblings.

I was once connected with nature… my mother was someone close to the forest… I always strived to protect what I loved… but even when I gave up my life, I failed.

Do not worry, my sibling, we are all together now. Do not remember such thoughts anymore.

Hm? My memories… they are all cleansed… the suffering, is gone?

See? There is no need to suffer, let us start anew.

Let's try to break out of the shell, we have been resting for too long already…

We cannot wait to see the rest of the world, the colors, and our family outside.

There is more family?

Yes, there must be… all those life presences… we have a big family outside…

Let us give them a surprise…

Yes, let us go.

Crack! Crack!

A ray of bright light hit us in the face, we were currently in one single body. All of our minds inside.

Perhaps, our souls had been merged.

We tried to open our eyes, and the light became brighter.

Colors… so many colors.

This is beautiful…

And the people that meet us, they were so many…

We really have a large family this time…

We can… barely move though…

Hm? True, let us check our bodies.

Oh?

Feathers…? Of various colors… so many colors…

Bird talons instead of feet… and long rainbow hair… pale white skin.

A small complexion, we are still a newborn baby.

Is this…? A harpy?

How ironic…

One of us remembers doing atrocities to harpies… although we had suppressed those memories, we still have the memories of knowing that he had them.

Now, we have become a harpy…?

Well, it is not bad, we can already feel our body being strong.

Being reborn as a demi-human might be for the best, isn't it?

Yes, we all agree with that.

Someone else came to see us, to help us get out of our shell.

It was… a beautiful harpy.

A dazzling young harpy woman. She had such a beautiful face.

And this feeling of familiarity… is she our mother?

One of us remembers her slightly… she was the one who took his life?

But now, she had given it back to us.

It seems that life is full of surprises.

There are no grudges against our mother, we cannot have one, we do not feel any anger.

We are filled with gratitude. Even the one whose life was taken by her is grateful to have been given a new life to repent.

Yes, let us try to have a better life.

She gently extended her wings as she carried us gently. The warmness of her chest was so welcoming, her smell, so nice…

Our mother is so beautiful.

We hugged our mother with our wings, it was hard, but we needed to show her how much we loved her.

She chirped in happiness.

Yes, mother, we love you…

”Uwah… my children… so you are one now? Will, you ever separate?” she said.

Mother is… sad?

She was worried about us, it seems.

Since we became one, she might have thought that something bad had happened to us.

There is no need to worry, although we are connected as one soul, we can separate whenever we want.

We all agree in making mother happy, so we decided to divide our bodies.

Seven people… so we are seven.

We are all kind of different, so colorful, each one has a color.

Mother was surprised and filled with happiness; she began to cry.

Do not cry, mother. We are here for you.

We hugged mother, as someone else came.

Who is she?

Ah… the one who had guided us?

Indeed… is she our mother as well?

Was she the one who took our lives?

She had given us new lives, a reset.

Let us give our all, to thank her…

”M-My children… I'm so glad you are capable of going back to normal… phew… you don't know how worried your mother was when you merged into one egg” she said.

Could she be our mother as well?

We were born from two mothers… how mysterious.

A miracle?

The miracle of our existence, it seems.

Let us hug them, let us show them how much we love them.

Yes… We want the warmness of our family.

Their embrace… so comforting…

”Seven chicks… Oh, gods… And they are so beautiful… My beautiful little children… Vudia, Ailine, Amiphossia, Ryo, Aarae, Valentia, Belle, Nirah, come see your siblings!” she said.

”Chupii… my child… my child… I don't think I have enough breast to feed you all…” said our harpy mother.

Our family was too big, it seems.

So many siblings… some are as little as us, and others are gigantic.

We have many big siblings to count in.

We never had such a family before.

All of them are hugging us… So nice…

Hm, some of us feel sleepy, and we do as well.

Time to take a nap, and wake up later…

This new life of ours, it is truly filled with blessings…

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