Abyssal Chronicles-Chapter 1021: Lost Memories

While Yumo and her children were happily frolicking in the hot springs, one of Yumo’s children was still working hard, aside from the unfortunate Pierre doing overtime.

At this moment, on a mountain peak outside the Church Nation’s capital Vinati, a woman with flowing honey-colored hair, beautiful as a heavenly maiden from a painting, sat quietly on a cliff edge, silently watching the capital shrouded in night.

This woman was Youlan, Yumo’s eldest daughter, the strongest Demon King-class Abyssal Demon known as Higanbana.

Though Tania had been captured by the Black Rose family and her remaining faction controlled by the Ghostly Flame Corps and Fata’s joint forces, there might still be stragglers. To prevent any desperate attacks, Youlan remained around Vinati, keeping an eye on things.

But honestly, Youlan knew this was just an excuse - an excuse to avoid going home for now.

Current Vinati, even if hiding many Tania’s remnants, was impregnable with Xiao and Bai Yanluo stationed there. Mere remnants couldn’t cause trouble, making her watch somewhat superfluous.

The main reason Youlan stayed was to avoid her mother.

Of course, like Yuan’er and the other children, Youlan desperately wanted to enjoy her mother’s embrace, to be enveloped in that familiar warm aura. But she was very conflicted... unsure how to face her mother.

After all, her mother had been quietly observing the battlefield with her Bloody Butterfly, surely seeing Youlan’s full form fighting the abyssal lord Eos’s avatar. Youlan had considered her mother might be watching, but at the time, she had no choice but to rush in to save her sister.

As a result, her situation now seemed rather awkward...

Her mother hated being deceived most, and what had Youlan done? Fooled her for hundreds of years? Finally returning, only to keep pretending to be a child.

"Mom must be very disappointed, right?"

Youlan couldn’t help but think.

Imagining she’d likely be despised by her mother, Youlan tilted her head, showing a pitiful bitter smile.

If Mother was just angry, that’d be fine - at most she’d spank me.

The feather duster was scary, but bearable if you endured it.

What Youlan feared most was being disliked by her mother, becoming an abandoned child.

Heh, really...

I have mentally prepared myself long ago, so why fret now?

"Whatever, I deserve it..."

"What are you spacing out about here?"

Huh?!

Hearing this sudden voice, Youlan froze, glancing aside in disbelief. Her pupils dilated, her azure eyes filled with shock.

The next moment, under Youlan’s quite surprised gaze, accompanied by a swarm of bloody colored butterflies, a beautiful young girl with her hair up and bare feet appeared in Youlan’s vision, then sat down beside her.

A breeze blew by, the girl’s bare feet swaying in the wind, seeming quite carefree and relaxed.

Looking at the smiling black-haired girl, Youlan nervously spoke:

"Mom, why have you come here?"

"Hmm? What could it be?"

Yumo raised an eyebrow, asking puzzled.

"Is it not okay to keep my daughter company and enjoy the view?"

"D-daughter?"

Hearing Yumo’s ’title’ for her, Youlan was slightly stunned. Skilled at reading people, she was quite surprised to find... no displeasure in her mother’s expression? This left Youlan quite bewildered.

"Mom, aren’t you... angry?"

"Angry about what? About you pretending to be a child and deceiving me?"

"Mm..."

Youlan curled up, nodding quite uneasily.

Mother really knew everything.

Yumo gazed at the bright moon above, sighing before slowly speaking:

"To say I’m not angry would be a lie. I was quite upset when I learned you’d fooled me again. But... now, I don’t really feel anything."

"Don’t... feel anything?"

"That’s right."

"R-really? You... don’t want to spank me?"

"Uh, could you not imagine your mother as so violent?"

"S-sorry... But really, you’re not angry anymore?"

Youlan still seemed to find it hard to believe.

"Yes, I’m not angry anymore. I can understand your actions... After running away rebelliously for so many years, there was an indelible gap between you and your mother and sisters. In that situation, losing your memory and becoming a child to start over was clearly a good choice. Besides... being afraid of getting spanked with a feather duster is understandable."

"..."

"Moreover, this time you exposed your identity to save your sister. You’re a hero in Yuan’er’s heart, how could I beat my daughter’s hero?"

"Mother..."

"Of course, deceiving Mama is still deceiving Mama. You can’t escape punishment~"

"Punishment?"

"Yep."

Glancing playfully at Youlan, Yumo slowly smiled, then casually snapped her fingers.

"Snap!"

With the crisp sound, Yumo forcibly pushed the dense Shadow Power around Youlan back into her body. As the Shadow Power dissipated, Youlan lost the strength to maintain her current form, instantly reverting to her little loli form in a flash of white light.

"Eh?"

Before Youlan could react, her shrunken form was scooped up by Yumo with a yelp and placed on her lap.

"Hehe, as punishment, little Youlan will have to keep this little loli form, be a good pillow for Mama and your sisters, and satisfy Mama’s nurturing desires, okay?"

Yumo muttered excitedly while pinching little Youlan’s cheeks.

"J-just be a pillow?"

"Yep, just keep this form. No matter what, except for Yuan’er and Kalina, children like Shuoyue are still wary of your past self. Your mother is not very smart, doesn’t know how to eliminate the gap. So, to reassure them, little Youlan should maintain this form for now. Understand?"

"Mm, I... I understand."

Youlan nodded somewhat woodenly.

The little girl seemed a bit surprised by her mother’s leniency. If any other sister had deceived her mother again, a spanking would be the least of their worries.

But this time, her mother not only had no intention of spanking, she didn’t even scold her?

You should know,

She was the most notorious of all the children!

Youlan couldn’t quite understand in her heart.

However,

In the next moment, Yumo’s actions and words seemed to explain everything.

"Mmm~"

The black-haired girl suddenly hugged little Youlan sitting on her lap, affectionately resting her chin on little Youlan’s head.

"You’ve had to worry for over 800 years... my good daughter... You’ve worked hard."

Yumo’s words were full of complex emotions,

And a thick sense of guilt.

?!!!!

Hearing this, little Youlan’s delicate body trembled, her azure eyes widening like bells, face full of surprise, as if time had frozen for an instant.

Because,

She realized,

In her mother’s words, she used 800 years instead of the usual 500 years. This meant that her mother... had remembered the past, remembered their days wandering the snowy plains together.

Moreover,

This "daughter"... the attitude was completely different from before, no longer conveying any sense of distance or strangeness. Without a doubt, her mother had fully accepted her as her daughter... she was viewed as truly equal to Kalina and the others.

Realizing this, Youlan bit her lip, her eyes growing moist.

Though she didn’t cry, her trembling body undoubtedly showed Youlan’s emotional state.

Taking all this in, Yumo said nothing more, just silently hugging her shaking daughter tightly. Looking at the little one in her arms, the girl’s crimson eyes revealed deep remorse and guilt.

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Over 800 years, huh,

I really wasn’t a qualified mother,

To make my child worry for so long,

After sighing inwardly, Yumo put away her melancholy, her lips curving into a bright smile:

"Alright, let’s go back together. Yuan’er and the other little ones say they can’t sleep well at night without their big sister."

"Mm."

Curled up in Yumo’s arms, Youlan nodded very obediently.

Seeing this, Yumo happily picked up little Youlan, cheerfully flying towards home.

"Let’s go, time for a family reunion~"

"Mm-hmm~"