Chapter 185: When you are you but not entirely you
I had almost forgotten about this, thanks to that annoying Lord of Lust debacle.
But it came to me all over again, the impending question of who exactly my grandmother was.
"I think...I think my grandmother came from this world," I told him as my heart beat loudly that I could hear it in my ears. "Not like you, but...physically."
"Like the hero," Natha concluded.
"Yes," I nodded fast, and I started to dig up all the things I could remember about her from my previous life. It wasn’t easy, mind you, because my memory of my childhood was so jumbled and blurry. "She...she had always been sickly, but the doctors never knew why. And she would get better when she was surrounded by nature, so she lived on the hill and in the countryside," at this point, I didn’t even realize my arms were flailing around. "You know...like a druid."
"Hmm..." Natha frowned slightly, holding my arms again so I wouldn’t flail so much. And then something clicked in his mind. "Was that why you were freaking out when you saw the princess’s picture?"
"Yeah," I nodded again, trying to be calmer this time. "If...if it was the Demon God that sent you to the human realm...do you think my grandmother got transported by the Goddess of Nature?"
I had thought before that maybe, maybe my grandma and the princess were just two different people with the same face, just like Natha and the doctor. That everything was just a coincidence. But now...knowing that there was a case someone from this world crossing over to my previous world...
I couldn’t just think it was a coincidence anymore, especially when I recalled the weird things around her.
"That...might be possible," Natha nodded. He had his serious face now, although his hands were still holding me. "I heard she had a child during the war--during her disappearance. That child is most likely one of Valmeier’s parents. And then she crossed over, and conceived your parent."
I just nodded at his words, letting him do the explanation, dissecting the possibility. "But it was also possible that she just died and her body was never retrieved, and the grandmother in your world is another person," he said, trying to cover every chance, I think. "I was sure my parents or grandparents never crossed over but I was basically Nathanael’s twins."