The Youngest Member Filming a Parenting Show is Adorable - Chapter 93

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【093】
A Sister who appeared to be around eight years old chattered incessantly beside someone who resembled Aurora, displaying her class representative badge with the same pride I once had.
Just as I used to show off my own badge.
“Mother, I’m heading home now. I’ll come back tomorrow!”
“Alright, be careful on your way. You understand, yes?”
“Don’t worry!”
The Sister, who had been laughing spiritedly until the very end, stepped into the Corridor and closed the door behind her, then slid down the wall with a soft whimper.
“Mother….”
For reasons I couldn’t explain, I passed through the wall with ease and followed behind the sniffling Sister, stifling my own sounds.
It felt far too familiar.
For some reason, I felt compelled to keep watching.
But the scene shifted quickly, and now I found myself at the Beach.
“Mother! Look at this—a beautiful seashell!”
“How lovely. Are you going to take it with you?”
“Yes! We came here after so long together. We used to come here all the time!”
Waves surged forward with a rushing sound, tickling my feet playfully.
The Sister, her eyes crescent-shaped with laughter, danced in a twirl beneath the sunlight.
Then she approached Aurora, who sat in the shade, though Aurora’s complexion appeared quite poor.
But why was I so certain it was Aurora?
‘Did I see it wrong?’
Even after rubbing my eyes and looking again, it remained the same.
Whenever sunlight fell upon her, whenever her long hair swayed in the breeze… it flickered faintly into a rosy pink.
Her dark eyes, when gazed into deeply, sparkled with a blue hue as if water rippled within them.
‘No matter how I look at it, it’s definitely Aurora!’
Then was that Sister truly Luarel?
As I tilted my head in confusion, a gentle and tender voice reached my ears.
“Lu, what did Mother tell you?”
“That I was born in the Sea!”
“That’s right. Don’t forget that. You are a child of the Sea. Someday, you will naturally return to it.”
“Not this Sea here, but the Sea on that Distant Star, yes? The place where spirits dwell and the Ancestor Whale resides.”
At Luarel’s words, Aurora smiled softly.
“Yes, we were separated from where we ought to be. That was the power I possessed.”
“Oh my, I’ve heard that a hundred times over. Mother was a special awakener who could traverse dimensions, after all.”
“Clever girl, my Daughter.”
Dimensional traversal?
My eyes widened at the unfamiliar term, and I drew closer to the two of them.
I settled my bottom at the corner of a beautiful mat decorated with blue stripes and focused intently on their conversation.
“Mother was on a Ship with me when I was a Baby, and suddenly a storm struck! So we fell into the Sea and ended up traversing dimensions together.”
“And?”
“The reason I don’t have a Father is because he’s on that Distant Star. And Father has been searching desperately for Mother and me!”
“That’s right. You understand well. There’s nothing more for Mother to teach you.”
Tears welled up in Aurora’s eyes.
Luarel embraced her tightly, hastily wiping away those tears.
“It’s okay, Mother. We’ll be able to return to Father. When we go back home, there are two older brothers waiting for us, right?”
“Mikaldo and Elzen will be searching for us. They’re the kind of children who would. When you return, they’ll surely welcome you.”
Oh no, what do I do?
I was desperate to tell the Admiral what I had just witnessed.
‘Oh, Father. Now.’
Father, Father.
As I murmured the word several times under my breath, I suddenly felt a gaze upon me and lifted my head.
At the far end of the coastline stood a figure in a dress that rippled like the tentacles of a jellyfish.
Where ears should have been, there were scales that shimmered in iridescent colors—beautiful to behold.
Hair that sparkled like sea foam was a deep blue, and atop the head sat a crown adorned with seashells, pearls, and coral.
And those eyes—crystalline and impossibly clear, like pure water itself—belonged to….
‘The Water Spirit King?!’
From a distance, I had thought she was roughly the same height as an ordinary person, but up close, that was clearly wrong.
The Water Spirit King was just as immensely, impossibly vast as the Air Spirit King.
[My child. My baby. My daughter.]
“…?!”
[Ah, I have been dying to meet you like this all this time. To obtain even this single opportunity, how much… how much….]
My daughter…?
The Water Spirit King embraced me tightly, catching me in my bewilderment.
She was cold, yet I had no desire to pull away.
[A ship was wrecked in an unprecedented tempest, and Mother fell into the sea while holding you, still a baby. In that moment, to survive, an ability awakened instinctively.]
Wait, hold on.
Then… is Aurora the Water Spirit King?
[The price was that ‘in the Original World, no one would remember the faces of Mother and Daughter’—but I firmly believed that if we could only survive, we would be able to return.]
“…!”
[But that was a misconception. As Mother crossed through space and time, she grew weaker, and there was not enough strength left for both of us to return. And so, we had no choice but to begin a new life in this place.]
The story was too sudden to accept, yet at the same moment, I understood something.
“The Childcare Variety Show!”
[Yes, normally it would be unthinkable for a Spirit King to observe a single human in detail… but thanks to the unbreakable bond of blood, I was able to persuade causality itself.]
With my mouth hanging open as I listened, the puzzle pieces in my mind clicked into place.
If Aurora is the Water Spirit King, and I am the Water Spirit King’s daughter, then…?
‘Wait.’
Then… then that means.
“Luarel is… me?”
Then how did I return to the Original World again?
Overwhelmed and frozen by a truth I had never imagined, the Water Spirit King kissed my forehead again and again.
Then, the Water Spirit King pointed toward something.
[Look there.]
Waves crashed against the shore.
A towering surge of water swallowed everything whole, and my surroundings shifted once more.
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
A square room.
The grating mechanical sound I despised.
The faint, rasping breath and Aurora Fasayen, even more withered than before.
“Mother, Mother. Don’t leave me alone. You can’t die. Okay?”
“My daughter… soon, you’ll be able to return….”
“I don’t need that, I won’t go! I won’t leave Mother! I won’t go, Motherrrr!”
Luarel, slightly older than before.
No, which means I…?
I was crying my heart out.
“Gasp.”
One side of my chest ached as though it were shriveling.
Unable to breathe, I gasped for air, and before I knew it, I was crying just the same.
[It’s because of emotional resonance. It’s alright, little one. That’s already in the past.]
A cool hand wiped away my tears. I felt such profound sorrow that I burrowed into the Water Spirit King’s embrace.
[Your mother paid the price with her remaining life to send Shu back to the Original World. She believed that Diagon would find you. That was the only thing I could do as a mother facing death.]
“….”
[But since Shu didn’t possess the ability for dimensional transfer, she suffered great shock during the process and lost her memories, her body becoming younger.]
The cool hand stroking my head trembled slightly.
‘Now that I think about it, the Water Spirit King called me her child from the very beginning.’
So that was it.
Because the Water Spirit King was my… mother.
“Then… then how did the Water Spirit King become…?”
My breathing grew ragged.
My heart pounded wildly.
Joy and confusion swirled together, making me dizzy, but I forced myself to ask the important questions.
This was something I had always learned from Elzen.
Earlier too, when Father faced the monster, Elzen calmly observed the situation while protecting me.
[Do you know? When a person dies wishing not to be reborn, they become a spirit.]
“I didn’t know.”
[Your mother was truly happy. After giving birth to Mikal and gaining Elzen as well, nothing could have made me happier. And then my youngest, Shu, was born. Every day I thanked the heavens. For allowing me to meet Diagon, for being his companion.]
I knew how much Father loved Mother.
But Mother loved Father just as deeply.
[Because my life had been sufficiently happy, I didn’t wish to be given a new life—I wanted to end as ‘Aurora Fasayen’ and close the chapter. So I died wishing not to be reborn… but when I awoke, I was already a Spirit King.]

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