184 Dada! (1/2)
Linri woke up in his living room. He could see Richard and Lyra looking towards him with worried eyes. Wait, was Mary-Ann drinking milk from their fridge? What was she doing here?
”Hey mom,” said Linri with a tired voice.
He got up from the ground with great struggle. This last day had hit him hard, like really hard. He just wanted to sleep for a whole week and not get out of the bed. He was lazy by nature and it really was out of character for him to try so hard. However, he also felt some gratification. Linri was about to fall when Richard caught him.
”Woah there, take it slow... so was it a success?” Richard asked. From what he could see there weren't any changes to Linri's body but he didn't seem like an out of control animal either.
”What are you talking about?” Linri played dumb. He remembered how the ring was not able to suppress his bloodlines and how it got out of control but he did not know how he got here or about the ritual. He knew about it because he wrote it himself but the real Linri wouldn't so he had to play dumb about it. Also, he himself was a little confused about the situation. Originally he wasn't supposed to lose his memories during the ritual so as he had guessed Lyra's ritual wasn't really complete. If it was, it wouldn't have been this hard for him and he could have completed it the moment it started as he knew the trick to it.
”Also what's with mom's get up?” said Linri as he started to furiously scratch his head. For some reason, it was really itchy. When he looked at his hand it was covered in blood.
*Plop!*
Linri heard a weird gooey sound and he saw some fleshy thing fall to the ground. Was that an ear? Instinctively his hand went towards his ear and there was nothing there! Suddenly he started to feel dizzy and passed out again in Richard's arms.
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”-da!” Linri heard a foreign baby-like voice in his ears. His chest also felt somewhat heavy. Ugh, he didn't want to get up this early in the morning. He felt cat-like claws pressing onto his face. The cat must have gotten hungry and trying to wake him up. Linri turned to the other side to keep sleeping but the cat didn't give up and pressed on his face again.
”Dada!” Linri heard the same baby-like voice again. He unwillingly opened his eyes to see a three-tailed fox cub looking at him. It had greyish white fur and azure blue eyes just like Linri's. What the hell was this?... Wox!? Seeing him wake up the wox cub jumped on his chest happily. Linri, on the other hand, was not pleased to see him. No, he was terrified!
”YEET!” Linri grabbed the wox cub and threw it at the door with all his strength.
Before you shout animal cruelty let him explain about the original wox cub he remembered. So, according to the original timeline, Linri unlocked his [Ex-Burst] in The False God event. After that event since the whole school was wrecked the teachers gave students two weeks off to spend time with their families. Basically, the club asked them to do a time skip. Max had thought it would be a perfect time to evolve Linri since he had gained enough points from the boss raid. And that's what he did and how his bloodlines clashing with each other became cannon.
After the event, Linri was very depressed. His girlfriend Elizabeth had left the school and he was all alone. There came in his second girlfriend Nero. In The Invasion event, she died in Linri's arms so he became even more depressed and psychotic. The wox cub, Linri saw before his eyes just now, was the result of that. It was a tulpa and not the normal kind. Mind you at the time Linri had already gone through his first evolution and perfectly combined his bloodlines.
One neat new power he had in cannon was the ability to control illusions. But because the wox cub was a tulpa created by his deepest darkest fears in his mind, it had also become a real living being thanks to his newfound illusion related powers. So even though it looked like such a cute thing it was basically a demon from Linri's perspective. That was why he threw it to the door. If it was really wox that meant he was going crazy. He would kill that little monster with his own hands if he had to! Anyway, this was just another mistake of his edgy teenager mind. Everyone needed to know that mental illnesses weren't cool. They were a legitimate life-threatening illness so fuck you teenager Max!
”What's going on?” Lyra opened the door to see Linri was finally awake. She was about to run and hug him when she noticed the poor little hurt wox cub in the ground.
”Linri Arkadyevich Harclaw! How can you hurt this poor little thing?” said Lyra as he held the wox cub in her bosom. How could her son be so cruel? She must have done something wrong while raising him.