Blessed by Night-Chapter 465: I Have No Mother

Ayuka heard loud bangs getting closer to her position.

Evidently, it seemed as though the prime minister was also becoming nervous. He grabbed his new woman by her hand and began to lead her away.

"W-We’re heading towards the bunker! The rest of you, deal with whatever is-"

Suddenly, the doors came flying off the hinges, and the prime minister had to duck to avoid a very sudden decapitation.

When the doors became embedded on the opposing wall, the officials inside naturally turned towards the source of the commotion.

Covered in a subtle layer of snow and brimming with a beautiful rage, Sei was a sight to behold.

For a moment, even her mother did not seem to recognize her.

But then again, that hardly would have surprised Sei at all.

"I guess you didn’t get the memo! You have to make an APPOINTMENT!!"

The prime minister’s daughter lunged at Sei with a silver lighter in her hand.

Sei narrowed her eyes at the power that had been stolen from her husband to harm her daughter.

She considered herself to be quite a mature person, but at the sight of that familiar power being used against her, Sei felt the urge to strike a child much younger than she was.

At the same time as the lighter flicked to life, one of the tattoos on Sei’s body began to glow through her clothes.

If Bianca were here, she would have been horrified to see herself appear with an orange-gold chestplate and green tights with a fish-scale pattern.

However, the most mortifying bit was the way she wielded a bright gold trident, almost larger than herself.

Nano-seconds after being summoned, Aqua-Bianca whirled her weapon around majestically before she stabbed the floor.

A virtual ocean of roaring water appeared out of nowhere, dousing out the flames of the young woman and knocking her unconscious.

She wasn’t the only one caught off guard by the sudden influx of water. Virtually everyone in the room was either injured or knocked out by the force of the waves.

No one ever thought that a 900 square foot space could fill up quite so fast...

The easternmost wall was made of a thin glass that could never have held up against the force of the surging waves inside.

The glass shattered. Water rushed out into the street, sweeping away the victims along with it.

Sei was the only one in the room unaffected. A bubble created by her construct had protected her from any harm and kept her lungs filled with air.

"Outrageous!" Aquua-Bianca raised her fist to the sky triumphantly.

Walking past her, Sei had an infinitesimally small smile on her face.

She brushed her palm against the dream’s cheek as she moved. Making the young woman shiver with a loving look in her eyes.

"Oooh... outrageous.." The construct fell onto it’s back and disappeared shortly after. Sei wondered if she was the one making her dreams this lifelike, or if they were doing it themselves.

She walked over to the broken window and gently jumped down from it. Her telekinetic abilities carried her down from the ledge like a fairy descending from the heavens.

When her boots landed on the wet ground, she passed over the dozens of shivering bodies to reach one in particular.

Her mother was understandably freezing. Being soaked in water right before a winter storm was a level of cruel and unusual punishment that few people deserved.

Sei thought that her mother was one of those people.

Ayuka looked up at her daughter hatefully; her teeth chattering against each other like wooden planks.

"Y-You..."

Sei slapped her mother.

It appeared as though Ayuka was just as stunned at being assaulted as Sei was that she had actually managed to go through with it.

But once the moment actually settled in for her, Sei felt, in some way, vindicated.

All these years, she had spent so much time stewing within her grief and regret over not being the perfect daughter.

But now, Sei was turning an emotional corner. Her mother didn’t make her feel small anymore.

Which meant that it took next to no time for her regrets to turn into resentment.

"Y-You pig! How dare you hit me!"

Ayuka lunged at her daughter.

However, her body hit something invisible and incredibly hard between them.

When her attack failed, Sei slapped her again.

Tears had started to sting her eyes as her anger rushed to the forefront of her mind.

"T-That’s for telling me that father said I couldn’t come home!"

Sei slapped her mother again.

"A-And that’s for calling me all of those cruel names a-and making me feel like I was worthless and..!"

Sei had told herself that she wasn’t going to cry today, but her plan was in no way going as she would have liked.

Similar to how waves of water had rushed from Aqua-Bianca’s trident, a surge of negative memories made her feel lower than a dog.

What had she done to deserve being treated in such a blatantly cruel manner?

"Do you... have any concept of what you have done to me..?"

This time, Sei’s words did not come with a slap. They were quiet and fleeting.

This made Ayuka look up, revealing her badly split lip.

With one look into her mother’s eyes, Sei had a profound realization.

She didn’t care.

Sei could cry until she was blue in the face or scream in excruciating detail the trauma he mother had done to her self-esteem.

But none of it would have made Ayuka care in the slightest.

In her mind, everything she had ever said was entirely justified.

And you cannot make people like that see how bad they’ve hurt you. No matter how hard you try.

Sei’s eyes finally stopped watering.

She clenched her fists together tightly and spoke with a clear, unwavering voice.

"No... it doesn’t matter I’m done letting you wear me down. I don’t care if you talk about the way I look or say disgusting things about my family.

I... I love myself the way I am. I love my family the way it is. And I despise you for trying to tear both of them down.

You’re not my mother anymore. And I hope my father and my brother will hate you until the day you die just like I do."

Ayuka had never heard Sei speak with such clarity. Or with so much venom.

She was usually a bumbling shy little fool who couldn’t even raise her voice in front of her.

Ayuka didn’t know what the cause of such a change was.

But she had someone in mind to blame.

"Y-You whor-"

The sound of a gunshot echoed in the air, and Sei felt a rush of air leave her body.