122. Mother and Daughter Reunion

122. Mother and Daughter Reunion

Skadi, after letting Iris go and dressing Flora, was walking aimlessly down the street. She was hungry because it had been a long time since breakfast.

After following a sweet scent and getting lost for about thirty minutes.

Just as Skadi was about to jump high into the air, holding Flora, someone blocked her path.

“Skadi. It’s been a while.”

It was her mother.

“Mother?”

“Yes. Have you been well?”

Perhaps because she met her parents after a long time, Skadi’s tail began to wag. The speed of its wagging gradually increased as the conversation continued.

“Are you all better?”

“Huhu, yes. The elixir I took last time was very effective. It seems the expensive price was worth it.”

“That’s a relief.”

Frigg stroked Skadi’s head. Skadi’s white, triangular wolf ears folded with the gentle touch, then sprang back to their original position due to elasticity. Skadi’s tail wagged even faster.

“Who is that child?”

“Ah, this is….”

Frigg spoke, looking at the girl held in her daughter’s arms. A child with green hair, long ears, and… a distinctive scent of grass.

Her blue eyes sharply pierced her.

Skadi, unaware of anything, continued to speak with a smile.

“This is my friend, Flora. She lost her memory in an accident recently, so I’ve been taking care of her.”

“Lost her memory?”

“Yes.”

Skadi, who had been wagging her tail, thought for a moment and continued speaking. She had seen her mother’s eyes fixedly gazing at Flora’s ears.

“Her ears are pointed, right? Doesn’t she look like an elf from a book? It’s so strange, I often touch them.”

Skadi stroked Flora’s ears. After the first lesson, Skadi often touched her ears, especially liking their unique soft texture.

“Heeeng♡”

“… What a peculiar friend.”

Frigg replied with a smile on her face. A moment later, Frigg reached out and gently scratched her daughter’s chin.

“Ngh….”

Skadi, who initially tried to avoid it by shaking her head, soon began to purr and surrendered to her mother’s touch once her chin was touched. Her body became relaxed and weak.

“Skadi, if you don’t mind, could I borrow this child for a moment?”

“Yes…? Borrow her… Ngh.”

“I know a way to help her regain her memories.”

While Skadi was losing her mind from the strange sensation she had never felt before, Frigg gently extended white magic from her hand. It was a simple hypnosis spell. As hundreds of white threads quietly burrowed into her mind, Skadi’s eyes became blankly hazy.

“Ah….”

“Wait here for a moment.”

“Yes….”

Skadi stood still and let her mother take Flora away.

——

“Who are you?”

“Ugh…!”

Hiding in a deserted place, Frigg grabbed Flora by the neck and lifted her high. Flora struggled, but it was futile.

Just before she lost consciousness from suffocation, Frigg threw Flora to the ground. Flora gasped and writhed in pain.

“What’s your reason for approaching my daughter? Are you trying to blackmail me using my daughter? Such pathetic attempts….”

“Wh-why are you doing this to me, hck… sob….”

Flora, crying uncontrollably from the inexplicable pain, looked at Frigg. She had followed her, thinking she was Skadi’s mother with a gentle smile, but what was this?

For Flora, who only had memories from the past month, all of this was terrifying. As Frigg took a step forward, Flora flinched and trembled in fear.

Seeing that, Frigg narrowed her eyes.

While she didn’t believe the elves, she thought that perhaps her daughter’s words might be slightly true. Frigg extended white magic and enveloped Flora’s head.

“You’d better tell the truth from now on. If you lie, your head will explode automatically.”

“Hiiik…!!”

Flora nodded her head vigorously up and down.

“Who are you?”

“I-I’m Flora….”

“Why were you with my daughter?”

“Because Skadi took care of me when I lost my memories….”

“How much memory did you lose?”

“Uh… almost all of it.”

“Tell me everything you forgot.”

“Huh?”

Flora stared at Frigg, dumbfounded. How could she say what she forgot?

However, perhaps judging this as disobedience, the white magic surrounding Flora’s head turned red, indicating an imminent explosion. Flora exclaimed in surprise.

“I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you!!”

“Tell me.”

“W-well, my name, my status, my memories, and, uh, also, common sense….”

If she remembered even one piece of information and didn’t say it, the magic would explode, so Flora had to blurt out every word that came to mind.

Of course, this included common sense between women. As various chaotic words, including sex, spilled from Flora’s mouth, Frigg grabbed her forehead and withdrew her magic.

“Stop.”

“Heeeng….”

A lie detector is a flawed magic. It can detect lies but not the concealment of truth, so I asked in detail, but I never imagined hearing such a crazy answer.

“… I’ll help you regain your memories. After that, go back to your country.”

“Yes…?”

Frigg extended magic from her hand again. Unlike the magic she used on her daughter, hundreds of thick threads burrowed into Flora’s head.

Before Flora could understand the situation, her mind was a mess.

“Oogok…!”

With every movement of the threads, her muscles contracted involuntarily, and her body bounced. Flora, who was twitching like a freshly caught fish, soon lost her senses in the storm of memories that began to rage.

“Mom!”

Memories of chasing butterflies with her mother in a beautiful forest when she was young.

“Hello, kids!”

Memories of waving hello to small insects on trees.

“Beware of the white wolf. She’s not normal.”

Memories of hearing bedtime stories from her mother.

“Why, why is there a dragon here! Princess, escape!”

And, the memory of being attacked by a dragon while riding in a carriage and rolling down a slope, hitting her head on a rock. Having regained all her memories, she lay on the ground, gasping for breath while looking at the sky.

Flora.

No.

The only princess of the Elf Kingdom- Kaede.

She couldn’t regain her senses. Her identities clashed.

Memories as Flora. And memories as a princess.

Although the latter was overwhelming in terms of time, the density of memories was overwhelmingly in favor of the former. For Kaede, who lived a quiet life like a hothouse flower after being born a princess, the ‘common sense’ of a woman that Flora learned, the ‘pleasure’ in common sense, was too stimulating.

“Uh, ugh, ah….”

The pure princess’s identity, who had lived a quiet and upright life, began to be slowly eroded. Her pure and clean heart was being enveloped by something viscous….

It was corruption.

“This should be enough. I’ll send you back to your country, so don’t come near the Empire.”

“Huh?”

Frigg enveloped Flora with magic. After a very short time, no one was left where Flora had been.

——

“I’m hungry.”

Skadi regained her senses.

“M-Master… Who is that person?”

“Hm? Ah, that’s my mother.”

“Th-that’s Mother? What in the….”

Ur, tied to Skadi’s waist, asked, her sword trembling. From the moment she first saw Frigg, she couldn’t even open her mouth due to the immense pressure.

“Ur wants to say hello too? Come back in human form….”

“N-no! I want to stay like this!”

“Hmm, okay.”

Skadi wanted to introduce her cute Ur to her mother, but if she didn’t want to, there was nothing she could do, so Skadi gently stroked the sword’s body.

Soon, Frigg returned.

“Mother… Huh? Where’s Flora?”

“She said she had to go home. Don’t worry. She regained her memories.”

“Aha….”

Skadi felt regret that she couldn’t say goodbye to Flora. When parting with someone, one should have a passionate sex session with bodies pressed together.

Meanwhile, Frigg looked into her daughter’s eyes, which had regained their consciousness, and asked.

“Skadi, but… um, have you come to your senses? How?”

It was a simple hypnosis, but it was magic cast by herself, not by anyone else. There was no reason for it to be broken so easily. In response to her mother’s question, Skadi tilted her head and replied.

“My head felt a little dizzy earlier, but I think it was because I was hungry. When I heard my stomach growl, my mind cleared up a bit.”

“Hmm, I see.”

It doesn’t matter, Frigg stroked her daughter’s head again. Skadi purred and asked.

“But why did you come to the academy?”

“I had a brief errand. It just finished.”

“Ah, then… do you have to go home right away?”

Skadi’s bright blue eyes looked at her mother. Her eyes were full of childlike innocence.

“Not necessarily. Do you want to spend time with Mom?”

“Yes. Uh, when I was little, you were sick, so we couldn’t be together….”

“I see. I’m sorry I couldn’t take care of you. Then… shall I spend today with my daughter?”

Skadi’s tail wagged.

“Yes!”

“Okay. But I can’t stay long. This is a secret, but I came without telling Dad.”

Frigg said, putting her index finger to her lips.

Skadi’s father was probably holding his forehead and groaning right now. He must have been worried since she had been gone for days. Considering that, she would probably have to return by tomorrow at the latest.

“That’s fine. Then, let’s hurry and visit the academy, introduce you to my friends, ah, and I have to meet Freya too….”

“Calm down. We have time. And I’ve already met Freya, so it’s okay to spend the remaining time with Skadi.”

Skadi’s tail wagged like a dog meeting its owner. Frigg laughed and took her daughter’s hand.

Skadi led her mother around the academy.