Apocalypse: Transmigrated with an Overlord System-Chapter 218: She Forgot Me, But I Still Remember

The words were sharp, clinical, but they were clear.

DNA MATCH FOUND: SUBJECT A AND B SHARE PARENTAL GENETIC RELATIONSHIP.

His eyes widened.

He opened the second report. And the third.

Same result.

Same truth.

They were biologically connected.

Their DNA matched.

Liora... was Aeris.

She was the mother of his daughter. The woman he had loved. The one who had disappeared, lost to time and fate—and yet, she was here. Alive. Under a different name. A different world.

For a long moment, Xu Kai just sat there—silent, overwhelmed. His heart was a battlefield, caught between joy and sorrow, relief and fear. He had found her. After all these years... he had really found her.

The reports slipped from Xu Kai’s lap and scattered across the floor, but he didn’t care. He stood up so suddenly. His eyes were burning, and he didn’t even realize tears were streaming down his face until they hit the collar of his coat. For the first time in years, they weren’t tears of grief, or anger, or loss.

They were tears of pure, aching relief.

She was alive.

She was Aeris.

His Aeris.

Clutching his coat, Xu Kai turned sharply and strode toward the door. His steps were quick, purposeful—borderline frantic. He had to go. Now. He couldn’t sit here anymore, not when the truth was clear. Not when she was out there, breathing the same air, walking through the same world... as if none of it had happened. As if she didn’t know who she really was. As if she had never made him the promises he still remembered every night.

How could she have left him like that?

Why didn’t she remember?

Why hadn’t she come back?

His fists clenched at his sides. His chest ached with a storm of emotions that refused to quiet down. She had sworn to love him. She had cried in his arms. They had planned a future together. And when Aerish was born—just a tiny, fragile thing—she had held her and said she’d stay.

So why?

Why did she disappear like they meant nothing?

Like he meant nothing?

Like their daughter was something she could walk away from?

His steps quickened down the hallway. Behind him, the old butler noticed the sudden movement and hurried after him, stumbling slightly.

"Master Kai, where are you going?" the butler called, breath catching in his throat as he tried to keep up.

But Xu Kai didn’t answer.

He didn’t even slow down.

His mind was already back at that moment—her eyes, her voice, the way she used to whisper his name when no one else was around. The fire they had survived. The blood they had spilled. The love that had bound them, even in silence. It was all real. And yet she had left. Vanished.

He was halfway to the main door when the butler finally called out something that made him stop in his tracks.

"Sir! If you leave now without a word... what if the young miss wakes up and cries again? What if she thinks you disappeared too?"

Xu Kai’s footsteps faltered.

The silence that followed was louder than any shout. His heart dropped to his stomach, the old guilt crashing back like a wave. He stood frozen, fists trembling at his sides.

She’s just a child... barely two years old.

A child who had already lost her mother.

A child who only saw her father when he wasn’t sent off on some mission, fighting someone else’s war.

He turned around slowly, shoulders heavy with the weight of his choices, and walked—this time not fast—back to her room.

He opened the door gently.

There she was. Curled into a soft ball, her arms wrapped around a stuffed lion he’d brought back from his last trip. Her white hair spilled over the pillow like threads of moonlight. Her cheeks were flushed from sleep. Her lips parted slightly, breathing slow and steady.

Xu Kai stood in the doorway for a long moment, just watching her.

This was their daughter.

The child Aeris had left behind.

The child he had failed in his own way too.

Kneeling quietly beside the bed, he reached out and gently brushed a few strands of hair away from her face. His fingers lingered on her soft cheek, and the moment he touched her, her eyes fluttered open.

She blinked sleepily.

"...Daddy?" she whispered, voice small and confused.

"I’m here," he said softly, leaning closer. "I didn’t go far."

She rubbed her eyes with her little fists and sat up slowly, still half-asleep. "Were you gonna leave again... like last time?"

The words hit him like a blade straight to the chest.

"No," he whispered, shaking his head as his voice cracked. "No, I’m not leaving. Not like that. Never like that again."

She looked at him with innocent, questioning eyes. "You promise?"

"I promise," he said. And this time, he meant it with everything in his soul.

Aerish reached out, tiny hands pulling at the lapels of his coat as she climbed into his lap and hugged him tight. He wrapped his arms around her, holding her close like he was trying to shield her from the entire galaxy.

For a while, they just stayed like that. Her soft breathing calming his storm. His heart thudding with guilt and determination.

Finally, he pulled back just enough to cup her tiny face in his hands.

"Listen to me, sweetheart," he said gently. "I’m going to bring Mommy back. Okay?"

Her eyes widened. "Mommy?"

"She’s alive," he whispered, more to himself than to her. "She’s really alive."

"Really?" she gasped, like he’d just told her stars could sing.

He nodded, his forehead resting against hers. "I’m going to bring her back home. To you. To us. No matter what it takes."

Aerish smiled at him. her smile was small, sleepy, but full of wonder.

And in that smile, Xu Kai found his strength again.

He wasn’t just fighting for answers anymore.

He was fighting to make their family whole.