275.4: Extra 3: We'll Probably Have Many Common Topics
"Oh?"
Alexandra asked:
"What did you see?"
Lucian wiped her tears and stood up.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. Our Cat Beastmen's divination can only see fragments of the past and future."
"For some unknown reason, when I saw future scenes, as soon as your daughter appeared, my magic stopped operating on its own, which caused the backlash just now."
"So I... only saw some fragments of the past."
"In the past, I saw interactions between your daughter and you..."
"She... really depends on you so much..."
At this point, Lucian's tears became even harder to suppress.
"If only I could be like that too..."
Seeing that pink-haired girl's dependent appearance in Alexandra's arms, Lucian felt unprecedented envy...
She and Lily... perhaps could have been like that originally...
Seeing Lucian's sad appearance, Alexandra also let out a long sigh.
"Sigh..."
She didn't know what to say to comfort this mother.
"I'm truly sorry... Your Majesty Iron Emperor..."
Lucian wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes while saying:
"I... in the past, to secure a lenient external environment, I deceived my seven-year-old daughter into going to the Demon Clan as a hostage..."
"There... she suffered all kinds of humiliation..."
"So... after the Demon Clan's destruction, when she returned to the Cat Beastmen nation, she's always hated me..."
"I... thinking of these things, I really regret them..."
Speaking and speaking, Lucian's cat claws deeply pierced her palm.
Blood flowed down...
"Actually... there were other options at the time..."
"But... I really don't know what got into me at the time... I just did it..."
"I... really don't deserve... don't deserve to call myself a mother..."
"Only giving a child life but only accompanying her through half her childhood... what kind of mother am I..."
...
Originally Alexandra wanted to say something to comfort her, but suddenly found herself speechless...
She felt... like she had been scolded...
However, Lucian, immersed in sad emotions, didn't notice this.
"I... seeing the warm interaction between Your Majesty and your daughter... really can't control my emotions..."
"You must have always accompanied your child, right up until now..."
"Only like this would she be so dependent on you..."
"Now... no matter what my daughter does to me, I must accept it..."
"This is what I and the Cat Beastmen owe her..."
Hearing this tearful mother's confession, Alexandra's expression became extremely awkward...
When it came to daughter matters... she seemed even worse than this cat mom...
At least she had accompanied her daughter through half her childhood...
She had never cared for Elashia at all since giving birth to her!
Moreover... the hardships Elashia suffered in Radiant Emperor City were no less than what the cat princess endured!
But...
For some reason, Elashia didn't seem to hate her...
Elashia was even very dependent on her...
"Actually... I've also made quite a few mistakes toward my daughter..."
Alexandra rarely showed a guilty expression before a foreign leader.
"Ah? Please teach me, Your Majesty Iron Emperor!"
Hearing Alexandra's words, Lucian's eyes immediately lit up!
Perhaps... as long as she could learn Alexandra's methods, she could restore her relationship with her daughter!
However, hearing her words, Alexandra's expression became extremely uncomfortable...
If she knew about those things she had done to Elashia... would she be frightened...
Not only had she not given Elashia even the slightest care when she was small... she had even planned to directly control her when she became Elasian Empress...
Moreover... she had given birth to Elashia purely for humanity's future, not for Elashia at all...
What she had done to Elashia... was even worse than Lucian...
Alexandra said somewhat uncomfortably:
"I... really don't have anything to help you with in this regard..."
"After all... you know, even a wise judge finds family matters difficult to resolve..."
"Ah..."
Lucian looked extremely disappointed.
She also wanted to be like Alexandra, sleeping while holding her cute daughter, admiring her daughter's cute sleeping face when waking up, being shaken by her daughter's arm while acting spoiled...
But... because of her own mistakes, her daughter now only had hatred left for her...
"Sigh..."
Lucian sighed.
Surely, Her Majesty Iron Emperor's earlier statement "I've also made many mistakes toward my daughter" must have been meant to comfort her...
That girl who appeared in her divination... clearly looked full of dependence and trust toward Alexandra...
Where was this the appearance of someone whose mother had made many mistakes?
Alexandra must have been very good to her daughter since childhood...
"Sigh... let's not talk about these things for now."
Alexandra's heart was truly uncomfortable now...
Especially thinking of that cat girl's attitude toward Lucian just now...
If Elashia treated her with that attitude, what would she do...
Could she still get angry?
Did she even deserve to get angry?
She would probably be as helpless as Lucian...
After all, what she owed Elashia was much more than what Lucian owed her daughter.
But thinking of this made Alexandra's heart even more uncomfortable...
Did she, this completely incompetent mother, really deserve Elashia's trust?
Not only had she not darkened due to the lack of maternal love and friendship, she had even become more gentle and kind under such circumstances...
This dark world had given her countless malice, and she, who should have been her protector against this malice, had become one of the perpetrators...
But Elashia not only didn't hate her, she even trusted her so much...
Even when she saw her and her sister Candice arguing, she would pull them apart, speak well of her in front of her sister, and actively cooperate with her human salvation cause...
Whether it was this world's malice or her own dereliction as a mother, none of it seemed to have stained this pure white girl with even half a shade of darkness.
Like a white lotus growing from mud, Elashia, who had grown up amid malice, was more gentle and kind than anyone...
The world kissed her with pain, but she responded with song.
Even toward a mother like herself, she was full of trust and understanding...
But... did she really deserve Elashia's trust and kindness...
"Buzz~ Buzz~"
However, before these two mothers filled with guilt could start discussing business, Alexandra's communicator rang.
"I'm truly sorry... Lord Lucian."
"It's from my daughter. Please excuse me for a moment."
Discovering the communication request was from Elashia, Alexandra immediately stood up.
She needed to stabilize her emotions first, then quickly answer Elashia's communication...
Many mistakes were already irreparable. At least now Alexandra needed to maintain her reliable image in front of Elashia...
This way, she could preserve the opportunity to atone later...
Moreover... she needed to have a good chat with her close friend.
When it came to Elashia, she and her would probably have many common topics...