"Mom… there's something I need to tell you."
"Hm? What is it, Aurea?"
"So, you know when sometimes I seem to act older than I actually am?"
"Yes…?"
"Well… I… I have memories of my past life."
There it is. I said it. I confessed.
"I know."
"Huh?"
"Do you really think I wouldn't have noticed when I was the one raising you inside that locked room?"
"Huh? Since when do you…? And… how??"
I'm truly baffled. Did she notice it from the beginning? So all my worries were for nothing? And she does accept it like that?
Wait, and how did she reach the conclusion of having memories from a past life, just because I didn't act so childlike?
"I think that I started suspecting it around the time you started talking. You never really talked like a toddler, you know. But the confirmation came when you awakened your mana core."
Ugh.
"Yet you never said anything…"