Raeder gradually regained consciousness, but her perception of the outside world did not return immediately. She felt like she had had a long dream without any content. She spent a long time in a daze, and she is still half asleep and half awake.
There were faint sounds of conversation all around, but the content could not be distinguished, as if they were separated by a thick wall. She felt a warm and moist feeling coming from her side, and a bright light began to appear in front of her eyes, getting brighter and brighter...
Along with an illusory baby cry, the body's sensors began to work normally, transmitting information about the external environment into the thinking module.
The splendid hall is still in front of us, and the blond Miss Sai is still standing aside like a wooden figure. But one thing is different. In addition to her father, there is another figure here, and that is... with golden hair.
The tall lady with dazzling waterfall-like hair and a gorgeous dress looks like... herself...
Raeder repeatedly calibrated her visual module to confirm that she had seen correctly. Why was her father kneeling in front of this lady and making a strange gesture of hugging her? What was going on? Who was she?
?
"You're awake, the operation was successful."
"What? What surgery?"
"Soul Separation Surgery."
"ah?"
"I have separated your consciousness from your mother's. You will no longer share your body with her from now on."
"How...really? How did you do it?"
"That's all you care about, why don't you ask where your mother is."
"Isn't she right here? Yes, why is there an extra person here? Where did she come from? Why do I feel like she is my mother..."
"Because she is indeed your mother, and her appearance is almost the same as yours."
"She...did she use my spare body?"
"Of course not. I made a new one for her. I can't explain to you the specific method."
"This...so...I'm really separated from her?"
"Yes, from now on, you will only have yourself in your body, and the underlying protection program has also been removed."
"Ah...oh...then they, what are they doing?"
"It's just to express the joy of meeting again after a long separation."
"Joy? Father, he is...very happy?"
"Of course, kid, now you understand, no matter how majestic your father appears in front of you, in front of me he is just a husband who is afraid... and respects his wife."
The blonde lady turned her head. She had a face that was almost the same as Raedel's, except that she had a proud and proud look that Raedel had never had before. She looked at the girl with a smile, but her hands were like teasing a child.
He rubbed his father's head in his arms and messed up his hair.
"Formal introduction, I am your biological mother who has been dead for many years. My name is Lecia Freed. I am the most talented, beautiful, and interesting genius scientist and entrepreneur of the last era, the one that all men dream of.
The perfect wife and lover, and..."
Lecia paused and put on a slightly sad expression.
"An absolutely, completely unqualified mother. I'm sorry Raedel. I'm sorry that it took me so long to really see you, my daughter."
"Ouch~"
Lecia pushed the rich man in her arms casually, just like pushing away a beggar who was entangled, completely ignoring the embarrassing image of the other person when he fell. She walked to Raeder's side with elegant and charming steps, and opened her arms.
He gently took the girl into his arms.
The fleeting warm feeling just now surrounded the girl again. She felt the beating of the heart, the temperature of the blood, and the faint fragrance. Raeder subconsciously hugged the other person's waist, and the precise sensor detected the other person's muscles and
Slight deformation of bones.
"You...your body is...made of meat?"
The girl asked blankly.
"That's right~ Are you envious? I have functions that you don't have, Se Se~"
"Oh... this is the first time I have seen such a beautiful... natural body..."
"Huh? Why don't you respond to the important content? You are such a boring child."
"..."
Raeder didn't know what to say. She just wanted to be held by the other person like this, and she didn't know why.
"Uh... Miss Sai, what should I do now? I have never been a mother, how will this child react?"
Lecia was a little at a loss, and her proud face showed embarrassment.
"She just instinctively seeks to be close to her mother. Just let her hold her for a while."
"Oh...then do I need to do something?"
"You don't have to do anything."
"Just stand like this?"
"Just stand like this."
"Isn't that too boring?"
"Do you think raising children is an interesting thing?"
"Isn't it... interesting? Aren't children meant to play?"
"This is really a statement that challenges the limits of motherhood."
"No, my mother has been playing with me since I was a child?"
"Please don't use your weird childhood to compare with normal people."
"Oh, I thought everyone was like this~"
"Of course not. Raising children is very hard. Not only is it no fun, it can even be said to be a kind of torture. Unless there is true love, it is easy to regard one's children as a burden or even as bringing suffering to oneself.
enemies."
"So that's it... No wonder I often saw news about abusing my own children, so I asked how could such a strange thing happen."
"You are lucky to have successfully skipped the most difficult stage of raising a child and directly gained a beautiful girl."
"Huh? Then I pretty much... deserved to die?"
"But as a price, your daughter has no feelings for you, and you have to cultivate a relationship with her from scratch. And for various reasons, this will be a more difficult process, and maybe you and her will never be able to establish one.
Have a normal mother-daughter relationship.”
"Then...what should we do?"
"Just let nature take its course. You are an extremely special person yourself, and your daughter is an extremely special person. You don't need to pursue being like everyone else. You should have your own characteristics."
"Huh? It feels good to say this? Yes, I am the most special woman in the world, and my daughter is also the most special. Of course I cannot be the same as others. Thank you, Miss Sai, I know what to do in the future
.”
"..."
"Why?"
Raeder pushed her mother away, took a step back, frowned and stared at her.
"What's wrong, kid? Have you felt enough maternal love?"
"You don't think hugging me is an expression of maternal love, do you? I haven't recognized you as my mother yet!"
"Huh? But you just promised to call me mom?"
"Then you have to treat me like a mother!"
"Didn't I?"
"What mother would touch her daughter everywhere when hugging her! What's more, I'm a cybernetic, so what's there to touch?"
"Huh? Shouldn't you know your daughter's body well?"
"You are not such a person who understands the Dharma! You are a frivolous woman!"