Child of Destiny Chapter 1917: Truth behind Her Death

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"M-mom..."

Swoosh!

Shin was barely able to say those words when he suddenly found himself in Evangeline’s arms. She embraced him hard, seemingly afraid that he would suddenly take that word back.

"Mom-... I-..." he was trying to say sothing when she imdiately interrupted him.

"That’s right, Son. It is Mom!"

"You don’t hate Mom, right? It is all your Dad’s fault! How can he leave my dear son suffer much!?"

"All of it is because of him! Let’s beat him up once he returns, alright? I’ll let you hit him for as much as you want to reprimand him."

Evangeline was unable to hold her emotions back and started talking, afraid that Shin would be mad at her for leaving him for such a long ti.

It took her quite a while to regain her composure.

It was also at that mont that she heard Shin’s words. "Mom, I can’t breathe!"

"Ah!" Evangeline finally snapped out of it and let go of her son. She distanced herself for a mont while placing her palms on his cheeks while smiling. "Since when has my son beco so handso? You clearly took after your Mom and not your useless Dad!"

Shin could only look at her helplessly and seed to have forgotten everything else.

"That’s right! You co here to chat with Mom, right? Let’s go inside. Let’s chat. Mom will tell you everything that you want to know," said Evangeline while dragging Shin inside.

Shin was still unable to organize what he wanted to ask when they reached the sofa, so Evangline imdiately said. "It’s fine, Son. You can take your ti. Mom will make so tea for you!"

Under her enthusiasm, Shin found himself helpless. He felt like he had returned to that little ho they have in the village. He felt like he had beco that little child once again.

He could only smile helplessly, seemingly forgetting everything else, and wanted to feel her motherly love once again.

He might have grown up in a warm and big family with the Springfields, but it still felt different under the love and care of his real mother.

Shin watched Evangeline busy herself while he was organizing his thoughts and thinking of the questions that he wanted to ask and clarify from her.

In a while, Evangeline finally returned to his side, smiling full of love. "Co on. I know that you have a lot to ask. Mom will answer everything for you and clear your doubts. Then we can chat later."

Shin opened his mouth, trying to start, but found himself unable to say anything once again.

Evangeline waited patiently on the side until Shin finally found his courage to start speaking. "Mom, I’m sorry."

He felt guilty as he recalled all the mories that returned to him.

Evangeline smiled a him as she patted his head. "What are you sorry for, my dear? As I have told you, it is us – Mom and Dad’s fault. We made you suffer."

Since there was already in the topic, Shin took this chance to ask about the Black Serpent Mafia Training Camp. "Mom, what really happened in the camp?"

Evangeline stared at him for a couple of monts before asking. "Did that child not say anything?"

Shin knew who she was talking about since that was how she usually addressed Uno before. He nodded while smiling bitterly. "Uno refuses to say anything since I have purposely erased those mories from my mind."

"Although I also have discovered that a part of those mories was manipulated after they ca back to ," he added.

He looked at his mother while having a rare anxiousness in his eyes. "What really transpired there. Did Big Sister Alyssa really die?"

Looking at the expression that her son was making, Evangeline could not help but tease him a little. "Son, what is your relationship with that girl?"

"She is a Big Sister who takes good care of ," answered Shin instantaneously.

"Is that all into it?" asked Evangline with a smile.

Even if Shin was dense, it was not that bad to the point that he could not tell what his mother was trying to say.

"It is really not like that, Mom," he said, denying whatever his mother was thinking.

Evangline continued to smile as she added. "Is that so? But I hear that my son is quite popular wherever he goes. I wonder when you will introduce those girls to Mom?"

"T-that-..." Shin found himself unable to respond.

Due to her teasing, the atmosphere within the room eased up a little, making Shin feel more comfortable with his mother despite not being together for a very long ti.

Evangline continued to tease Shin for a while before finally moving on to the main topic that he had just asked. "You want to know what truly happened in that trash place?"

She paused for a mont as she looked at Shin’s eyes before continuing. "Everything that you have experienced in that place is real. All of it and what you rember are real."

"Then-... is Big Sister Alyssa-..." Shin could not help but ask.

Evangline nodded as she answered sowhat coldly. "Yes. That girl did die at that ti."

"Ah!?" Shin paused for a mont, trying to process the information inside his head before suddenly denying it. "But soone has seen her alive. There is even proof of it."

Evangline sowhat guessed what had just happened since it was also the ti when her female disciple had left the village.

She tried considering what to tell her son, whether telling him the truth or avoiding it for now. But after thinking about all the trauma that Shin had gone through during those tis, she could only sigh and give in.

Which mother would like their child to suffer and continue suffering more?

"That’s right as well," she added before continuing. "She did die during that incident, but she was also alive at the sa ti."

"As I have said, everything that you have experienced in that damned place is real," she emphasized before adding. "But you must have no idea about the truth behind her death."

"That girl has a complicated story of her own," she sighed as she recalled the ti her husband brought Alyssa into the place and told her that girl’s background.

"All you know is her running away from ho due to the pressure that the elders of her family are giving her. But that is just one side of her story."

"In truth, she was already suffering a serious trauma when she was captured by the people from the Black Serpent Mafia. This trauma has already ford a dark seed within her, which can turn into the evilest seed of hatred just like yours and your father’s."

"Fortunately, at that ti, it was still in its embryonic form, which made it hard for those people to notice her specialness and use her as their tool for a certain project."

She then hesitated for a mont as she looked at her son before continuing. "Your presence to her has beco both a dicine and a poison."

"You have beco her anchor in that damned place. You have saved her from losing herself completely."

"However, you, staying on her side, had also beco the most dangerous thing for her."

Shin imdiately realized what she was trying to imply since it was the sa thing that made his parents decide to leave for such a long ti. "The seed of hatred within has accelerated the growth of that seed, forcing her into a dangerous situation."

He could already imagine what had transpired next with this piece of information.

"Unfortunately," nodded Evangline before suddenly asking. "Do you rember the head guard at that ti?"

Shin tried to recall the faces of the people he was familiar with within the camp, particularly those he regularly saw during that ti.

Even if it had already happened for a long ti, he was still able to recall most of those people, whether he hated them or not.

He then nodded, confirming it to his mother.

"Don’t you feel he is quite familiar?" she asked with a smile.

Shin first thought that it might be his father in disguise, monitoring everything in secret, but he quickly rejected the idea since just being near one another would cause his Seed of Hatred and Alyssa’s embryonic seed to bloom fully.

The faces of the people from the village then suddenly flashed across his eyes before stopping on a certain soone, who then coincided with the face of that head guard in the mafia training camp.

"Uncle Troy!" he blurted out imdiately after.

Evangline smiled as she nodded. "It looks like you still rember him."

"That’s right. It is your Uncle Troy in disguise during that ti. Your uncle has manipulated a part of your mory to make you forget him, or at least overlook his presence during your ti in that training camp. This is the reason why you are constantly doubting your mory when it returns to you," she explained.

"Did he help Big Sister Alyssa to escape during that ti then? Fooling everyone?" asked Shin, seemingly having a rough idea of what truly happened during that ti.

Evangline paused for a mont before nodding. "You can say that."

"But as I have said, that girl truly died at that ti," she emphasized, making Shin confused once again.

Evangline hesitated once again before continuing. "There are two purposes for that."

"The first reason is to get rid of that evil embryo, preventing it from fully blooming. She needs to ’die’ to get rid of it completely since it has already started to stick into her soul."

"That is the only solution at that ti, or else she will truly beco soone unsavable. Snake Head and the rest will also take notice of her when it happens."

"The situation is quite urgent at the ti, so they can only co up with such a solution."

Shin was able to pick up so clues from her words. "Did she agree with the plan herself?"

Evangline nodded, making Shin sigh.

He then suddenly recalled sothing and imdiately asked. "Mom, did you say that there are two purposes for them to take such drastic asures? What is the other one?"

Evangeline could not help but pause once again, hesitating for another ti, before finally answering. "It is a good opportunity for you to fully awaken another Seed of Hatred."

Boom!

Shin was imdiately stunned after hearing those words, having mixed feelings. He was stunned at first, before being disappointed, and then confusion kicked in imdiately after.

He could not help but clench his fists while struggling to contain such feelings. His mother watched him with full anxiousness, afraid that he would hate her.

Shin forcefully controlled his emotions, understanding that it could also arouse so reaction from the seed of hatred within him.

"Hu~!"

Inhaling deeply, Shin cald himself and asked. "Why?"

Evangeline heaved a sigh of relief after seeing that her son did not lose control and reason before explaining. "It is the plan that your father has drawn before fully sending you away."

"Since Uno is an existence that has been born through a series of factors within you, mainly your talents, state of mind, and the seed of hatred that you have inherited from him, he guesses that this child will grow stronger even faster once he consus a larger amount of demonic energy."

"It is best if Uno can form a ’core’ of his own, which will beco an independent source from your inherited Seed of Hatred. This will help him fight the corruption of the inherited ’seed’ and beco more independent from it."

Shin then understood. "So, he needs a separate seed of hatred that can beco ’his own’?"

Evangeline nodded as she continued. "Since you already have an inherited one, the only choice is getting a planted one or form your own-... Or even both."

Shin nodded as he had sowhat gotten a full picture of things. "The original plan is to leave in the ’care’ of the Black Serpent Mafia and let them plant a ’Seed of Hatred’ to or use the trauma that I will experience there to form one on my own."

"But Big Sister Alyssa has beco an unexpected ’bonus’ during the process," he added with a sigh.

Evangeline nodded sowhat anxiously while closely observing his expression. She seed to be trying to see if his attitude toward her would change because of this.

Shin noticed this as well before sighing. He then asked. "This is all part of Dad’s plans?"

Evangeline seed to have realized sothing before repeatedly nodding her head. "Yes! Yes! It is all your father’s fault!"

"Let’s beat him up together when he returns!" she added, seemingly reassuring him.

’Why is she so obsessed with beating Dad for so reason?’ he thought.

He could not bring himself to hate them after learning the truth since he understood that they only did it for his sake. However, it also did not an that he was not disappointed, which was why he had been constantly avoiding eting her until now.

Just like what he had said to David before, it was his way of throwing ’tantrums’.

With a sigh, he could only forgive his mother while also dumping all the bla on his father.

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