episode_0034

In Seraph of the End, there are not many cases where the parents of characters with a certain level of importance appear.

Of course, it’s not like you don’t have parents in real life. They were just cut out because it’s a game.

As a result, most of the parent characters that appear in the work are targets of conquest together with someone (commonly referred to as mother/daughter/rice bowl), or are MILF characters with children.

But among them, Senior Saya is a rather unique case.

First of all, Saya’s parents do not appear in the game.

I heard from senior Saya that they were a mother and daughter family. I also heard that they were pretty enough to be called sisters when they hung out together.

At the same time, I also heard that he didn’t like Senior Saya at all. Senior suffered domestic abuse from his mother for a long time and the scars remain all over his body.

The only character who knows her mother, other than Saya-senpai, is said to be pretty, but she is an unpleasant and dislikeable person, according to Yuna.

Since Saya-senpai was the only person who said, “I hate you,” I couldn’t help but be curious.

So I emailed the radio channel run by the production company and asked about the setting for the mother. I still remember what the panelist said.

──Ah, the next questioner is Sayaholic-nimㅋㅋㅋ. She’s famous, rightㅋㅋㅋㅋ. This time, she sent an email saying she was curious about Saya-senpai’s mother, so I contacted the settings team and got an answer.

──Yusa-ya’s mother is said to be Yumi-ah. It is said that Saya inherited her mother’s surname from a single-parent family. Unlike her incompetent senior, she is an incredibly powerful Awakener. She was originally supposed to appear, but it was said that she was removed at the end because the game genre changed to horror.

──… Horror?

I had the same question as the panel. “Horror… ?”

†

“Excuse me… Junior, do you really have to come today?”

Senior Saya asked with concern.

As I was thinking about the word horror, my senior’s question sounded meaningful.

“Yeah. Now that we have a hideout, if possible I would like to get permission from my senior to come and live there.”

“… Is it… okay…?”

“Well, if you don’t allow me, I’ll just say hello. Isn’t that okay?”

However, Senior Saya couldn’t hide his uneasy expression.

“I don’t know about normal times, but when you wake up during the day, you’re usually in a bad mood… .”

“Really going back…?”

Let’s pretend to be slightly upset. Senior Saya couldn’t help but shake her head.

“No. …But promise me one thing.”

“Huh? What is it?”

“… Hey, you shouldn’t fall in love with my mother.”

I was speechless for a moment.

But Saya-senpai’s face was extremely serious.

“This is probably one of the most shocking things you can hear from someone you like… . Are you kidding me?”

“I’m serious. If you happen to like a face like mine… Your mother is much prettier… .”

This is such a ridiculous theory.

No, but Yuna’s words are like that, and she really does seem young… and Saya-senpai’s reaction of seeming jealous is like that too. Is this what a mother-daughter relationship is like?

While we were talking, we arrived in front of my senior’s house.

An old, shabby apartment. My senior has lived there with his mother ever since he was born.

The mystery about the senior’s mother also appears here.

“Senior, your mother didn’t work, right?”

“Yes. You don’t go out much, and you usually just go to sleep when the sun rises and wake up around sunset.”

It is said that when the sun sets, he wakes up, has a drink or two, reads a book, or stares blankly at the night sky beyond the veranda, and then goes to sleep in the morning.

The amount of money deposited every month under the name of compensation is not small, so the senior also receives a fair amount of pocket money. Since both of them do not have spending habits, they have a considerable amount of savings.

However, it is unclear what kind of compensation has been continuously deposited for more than a decade.

The bankbook shows the name of some life insurance company, but after researching, I found that an insurance company with that name does not actually exist.

I think it existed about 20 years ago, but it seems to be gone now.

When asked what he thought about the source of the money, Senior Saya answered with a slightly dark expression.

“I don’t know for sure… Maybe it’s something like child support. Something you receive in exchange for giving birth to a child who is not innocent… .”

From the perspective of someone who knows in advance that his mother is a powerful Awakener, that story is also a bit difficult to accept.

But more than that… .

“If you say that again, I’ll do a 45-minute tickle course.”

“… That’s too much!”

A 30-minute tickling course that even my senior got angry and took revenge on me.

I was very excited by the rare experience of being repaid by my senior + the tickling… .

While we were talking, we arrived at the floor where my senior’s house was.

“Please wait a moment. I will tell my mother that a guest is coming… .”

“Okay, I’ll stay here.”

The moment my senior took out his key and stood in front of the door, the door opened with a bang.

And there, a girl in slip clothes sticks out her upper body.

She was a girl who looked similar to Senior Saya, or perhaps a little younger.

She looked surprisingly similar to her senior, Saya. She had long bangs on one side, which covered her face a little, but the direction was the opposite.

Except for not wearing glasses, their appearances were almost identical.

But the impression was completely different.

I know how small differences in posture and facial expression can make a big difference in the impression people give to others.

Senior Saya and that girl could be said to be exactly that textbook.

Senior Saya’s softly drooping eyes clearly showed her affectionate nature, but the girl’s eyes were sharp and creepy.

If the smile that Saya-senpai made out of habit was somehow fleeting, the corners of the girl’s mouth were distorted in an unpleasant way, as if she had never smiled even once.

The moment the girl’s eyes looked at me with a blueish glow, my heart stopped.

《[Foreign Matter of the World] skill is activated. Something foreign has been discovered.》

The next moment, the door opened with a bang.

And there, a girl in slip clothes sticks out her upper body.

She was a girl who looked similar to Senior Saya, or perhaps a little younger.

The moment the girl’s eyes turned blue and looked at me, I felt like my limbs were being torn apart.

《[Foreign Matter of the World] skill is activated. Something foreign has been discovered.》

The next moment, the door opened with a bang.

And there, a girl wearing slips who looked similar to or slightly younger than Senior Saya stuck her upper body out.

The moment the girl’s eyes, with their bluish luster, looked at me, I felt my neck floating in the air.

《[Foreign Matter of the World] skill is activated. Something foreign has been discovered.》

The next moment, the door opened with a bang.

“Hello!”

I opened the door and greeted the girl who appeared in a hurry.

I don’t know what happened.

I have no idea what’s going on.

Short-term continuous time leap? Why? Under what conditions?

[Foreign Matter of the World] Were you able to realize this thanks to the skill? Is it a skill that makes you aware that you have entered an alien flow of time?

My head was in confusion.

But there was one thing that was certain.

The moment that girl looked at me, my heart stopped. Her limbs were torn off, her head was cut off, and she flew into the sky.

Not figuratively, really.

You must have been surprised by my sudden shout.

I saw Senior Saya looking at me in confusion.

I walked over to the girl and spoke to her.

“Hello. My name is Kang Se-ha, senior Saya’s junior. Are you senior Saya’s mother?”

The girl frowned.

When I looked at Senior Saya as if asking for an explanation, the senior who received my gaze spoke quickly.

“Oh, you’re my junior… . Oh, I’m sorry I brought you here without even contacting you… .”

“… Come in.”

The girl turned and went inside.

Beneath the worn-out slip, her smooth legs were visible. There was no trace of the flab or wrinkles that age should have given her.

Senior Saya was also young, but this was not a problem that could be explained at that level.

The girl, Saya-senpai’s mother, was someone who seemed to have stopped growing during her girlhood.

“Are you okay?”

“Uh, yeah… .”

My expression as I said that must have been quite suspicious.

Senior Saya looked at my face and whispered softly in my ear.

“Junior… . I told you I don’t like you… .”

I’m sure it wasn’t a genuine misunderstanding, but you have no idea how much that joke cheered me up.

“There’s no way, senior. I’m just nervous… .”

When I said that, my senior hesitated for a moment and then grabbed my hand tightly. He even interlocked his fingers and smiled as if he was somehow happy.

“Really. My hands were sweaty. I guess you get nervous at times like this too.”

“Don’t be nervous… .”

The senior’s body temperature, which was slightly lower than that of an average person, was a great help. I was going to calm down a bit and go inside the house…

The senior’s hand moved away with a pain that felt like being burned by fire.

No, that’s not it.

My senior didn’t let go of my hand. My hand that he had just grabbed was cut off along with its wrist.

The senior opened his eyes wide in surprise as blood gushed from his wrist and the weight of the hand he was holding suddenly became lighter.

And inside the house, at the front door, Saya’s mother was glaring at me with her blue eyes.

When the late Sa-ya-senpai screamed, his blue eyes wavered.

and….

《[Foreign Matter of the World] skill is activated. Something foreign has been discovered.》

My senior hesitated for a moment, then grabbed my hand tightly. He even interlocked his fingers and smiled as if he was somehow happy.

“Really. My hands were sweaty. I guess you get nervous at times like this too.”

“Don’t be nervous… .”

At that moment, my senior’s mother turned around and looked this way.

He frowned slightly, but turned his head coldly.

The wrist remains.

I let out a sigh without realizing it.

“I’m getting really nervous… .”

I get why it becomes a horror story when Saya-senpai’s mother appears.

†

Senior Saya took her mother into the living room.

I can hear the sound of it flowing out, so it seems like she’s trying to dress her mother, who’s annoyed.

I organized in my head what I had learned about Senior Saya’s mother.

It is clear that he is an incredibly powerful Awakener.

Just looking at it has killed me several times and cut off my wrists. The effective range of the ability is unknown, but it is certain to reach at least 7 meters.

I’m not sure, but I think I have the ability to turn back time.

I think I can perceive things that are generally not perceptible thanks to my unique skill called [Foreign Matter of the World].

The timing of the system message appears to be after the time loop, so it is difficult to expect that the skill is causing the loop… .

To sum it up,

There was no solution.

If a situation arises where you have to confront your senior’s mother, there are four things you can look forward to.

Unconscious death, removing targeting methods, targeting cooldowns, just surviving.

Neither of these is possible right now.

From the information that has been confirmed so far, it is clear that being hostile is a foolish thing to do.

The problem is that he is even thinking of a way to assassinate his senior’s mother in the first place. He is using double thinking to prevent his thoughts from being read…

Could this also be an occupational disease?

While I was lost in thought, Senior Saya came out with her mother.

Unlike before when she was wearing just a slip, she is now wearing a neat blouse and skirt. She has leveled up to the point where she looks like a mature girl.

I put on a little bit of makeup… Unlike most cases, it’s makeup to hide the fact that I look too young.

“… Hello.”

The blunt tone remained the same, though.

“My junior in the same unit as me… This is him.”

“Hello. I’m telling you to be strong. I’m always indebted to Senior Saya, so I stopped by since I happened to be nearby.”

He answered with a bright smile, as if he was oblivious to the other person’s blunt tone.

As if I didn’t even know about everything that had just happened.

“I don’t like the way you laugh… .”

“Mom…?!”

“I’m sorry. I came so suddenly that you were surprised.”

“Oh, right. My junior bought me a cake. Let’s talk while eating that.”

Senior Saya quickly got up and started preparing coffee.

He looks quite skilled at taking out the dripper and preparing the filter. The senior who says ramen is a dish drinks coffee with a hand drip… .

“Then I’ll take the cake… .”

“What are you doing in someone else’s house? Keep quiet.”

The senior’s mother got up.

He took out a plate, cut the cake, and placed it in front of me, my senior Saya, and himself.

It took a while, but the senior put the coffee cup down in front of everyone. The senior’s mother took a sip and muttered in a small voice, “You did well today.”

Senior Saya has a strangely happy expression on her face.

The chocolate cake I bought on the recommendation of my senior, Saya, was so sweet that it was terribly sweet for me. I couldn’t eat a second bite without washing it down with coffee after taking one bite.

Senior Saya was also like me, as she could hardly eat any cake.

On the other hand, my senior’s mother seemed to realize my presence only after she had quickly emptied her plate.

“… So, what brings you here?”

“There… There was talk about how it would be if the kids in the same unit lived together… .”

As the conversation continued, I could sense that my senior’s mother was getting more and more displeased. Accordingly, my senior’s voice gradually became quieter.

“I’ll tell you, senior.”

The original purpose was to meet the mother of the unidentified senior Saya and receive permission to live with her in Suin’s house.

Since I knew that Saya-senpai’s mother was an Awakener of a level far beyond what I had expected, I had to step aside for now.

It would be safer for you to stay at home like you have been doing so far. Even if you add me, Yuna, and Suin to the territory’s watchtower, they would still be weaker than this guy.

but….

“I like senior Saya. I came here because I wanted to take her with me.”

Senior mother’s eyes sparkled blue.

“That’s interesting. Can you say it again?”

I can say it again and again.

The moment I opened my mouth, I could feel flesh being torn from the corners of my mouth.

It didn’t feel like it was being cut or anything.

It felt like I was being cut with a dull saw blade.

Oh, you said you didn’t like my smile, but it looks like you’re going to fix it…

Pain stabbed my brain. A scream rose from the back of my throat. I held it back and put my hand on my torn face.

[Yin Yak Creation (Contact Only) F-].

The healing potion I can create is not enough to heal wounds like this. Instead, I tried to somehow reduce the pain by creating a potion.

It had little effect and was terribly painful, but I was able to suppress my screams.

I said.

“I will take Senior Saya… .”

Dear Senior Saya,

Because I can’t have my impulsive and uncontrollable mother around.