Nier's voice ca out cracked, his gasp as thin as a whispered.
"W-What..?"
The word just hung there between them, ugly and stunned.
He stared at the tablet like it had personally betrayed him.
Lisa didn't rush to fill the silence. When she spoke again, her tone was low, careful even as if deciding her next words.
"Eleven years ago...that was the early 2015's. You rember coming ho from Kayland's place that night, and you walked in and found them both at the kitchen table. Both your mom and dad. Each one holding a gun. It looked like they had shot each other in mutual desire for termination."
Said Lisa as she made this statent clear, and monts after she retraced the events taking him by surprise.
"...but what if I told you, that wasn't what happened?"
Nier's hands tightened into fists on his thighs. He didn't say anything, but his actions made his emotions clear.
So he just continue to listen.
"They were ambushed."
Lisa went on.
"Right here in the house master. A team ca for your mother that night, each highly trained as they were keeping up with Circe, amateurs by no ans."
"These people were organized, and prepared. Two main attackers led the assault, but it was the third one, a man with great sword skills, he was the one that a cornered Circe fought like a demon till the very end."
"Although they cleaned up this place well, if you look good enough, the villa still has so magic residue still present within its confines."
"But like I said before your mother was declared dead by a gunshot to the head, but guns can't kill soone like her. What they used was sothing else. A sword.... It was a strange black tal threaded with veins that looked almost alive. Every cut it made… was like a cut on her magic itself, as that blade casually unraveled everything it aid at."
"Healing spells are useless if you beco inflicted by its touch. Regeneration beco utterly aningless, but worse of all is the fact that the blade itself carried the sa power of Negativity you and a lot of Fluxes use. I think she recognized it right away, and knew she wasn't walking out of that fight."
Nier's breathing had gone shallow, and tight, as he listened to Lisa's story.
He stayed silent, allowing her to finish, and Lisa complied as she continued to speak.
"So in an attempt to save herself, she made her move in a very dark way."
"A desperate trump card if noting else. Circe knew the risk of her plan but when cornered to that degree she went dog shit crazy in the mind, and without a second thought, she cast a spell that tore both her own and your fathers soul right out of their bodies at the exact sa instant… It was clear that the spell was precasted."
"As it pulled your fathers own soul out of his body, and anchored it straight into the journal, where it is still now, both sealed, and safe."
"While her own soul was broken into many fragnts upon casting it. Her soul was shattered into seven pieces. One for each of the deadly sins. Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Greed, Envy, Lust, and Sloth. Those fragnts scattered across the planet. So reincarnated into new bodies. While others overwrote people who were already alive, creating a different manifestation of her seven core personalities. Each of these fragnts contains Circe mories as those mories beco clusters of different ego that is it own unique manifestation of her, and if all are gathered, her recreation is possible."
"What spell did she used to even make that possible."
"It's a forbidden spell from Divine Language of the God of the Underworld, Hades. The spell is called Incarnation of the Dead."
"Forbidden!?"
Nier said taken aback by the news.
"Yes, the spell was forbidden given it's a spell that can allow one to step outside the flow of the world's mories. If you're aware of our universe and how it's perceived in the teachings of magic. You should know that what humans call God's, are just subjective concepts of the universe, entities made from collective ideas forming in the Mind Womb to give life to these platonic entities."
"Once born they usually anchor themselves to their ho universe since a God has absolute power within their ho universe they were born in, and if they step outside it, their abilities are greatly dwindled. But this logic, omnipresent in aning, is like a mandatory code in existence that applies to all divinity born within the Mind Womb."
Lisa explain then continued.
"But this basic knowledge aside, mories as a concept in our universe is the domain of Mnemosyne. One of five original Dracas, a true born of Gaia, and also one of the High Gods, she is the sustainer of this universe, and one of the most important divine beings in our world."
"And this spell that your mother used, is like an insult to her very existence, if a being is born outside her influence, it ans they are born outside the reach of her powers, that ans what her eyes can see. What her existence governs, and even concepts like Death, Fate, Ti, and Destiny start to lose all their aning to the casters' postmortem manifestation of their souls."
"Sowhere out there, seven sisters walk their own path in life crafting a story of life, invisible to the universe, free of the worry of death, untouched by the cruel hands of fate, biased to the absolution of ti, and stray off the path of Destiny. In our world of magic they are like ghosts, and before the laws of science, they are the perfect manifestation of entropy."
After hearing this Nier nod his head as he comnted his thoughts.
"What a cheat like spell."
"Your mother did explain to , that if her death ever approaches, she would use this spell to take her knowledge to the grave with her and back to the real world."
"By separating herself from Mnemosyne via the use of it, anyone that uses immutable magic or power derived from it, cannot track her soul down… Neither could she be affected by the magic of the world."
"After all, this spell makes the user immune to all phenonons of magic, making only the physical force of our things born from exotic matter the only thing that can kill these fragnts."
"Of course this also ans, your mother's seven fragnts loses the ability to use immutable magic as a consequence...it's a spell that is more akin to rebirth, but at the cost of both their own sense of self that ca with their own individually, and the ability to use what the universe originally gave them."
Nier humd a bit to himself, this spell, he could understand why it was forbidden.
However after hearing what one gets in return for the ability to never use magic again as the seven separates, He now understood why Mnemosyne said she doesn't know what happened to Circe soul, however that doesn't answer his question in regards to his fathers own soul.
For the at reason, he asked.
"You said my father's soul is in this book right, by chance, is it hidden by so kind of external magic as well."
"No, immutable magic wasn't used for hiding your fathers soul, rather it was the power of admission magic, a dark spell that can create a pocket of non-existence as physical space that one can use to lock things away from reality. As such it can only be undone by another form of admission magic, and since immutable magic can't influence admission magic, it inaccessible to anyone without the right knowledge."
'Make sense, it would also explain why Mnemosyne couldn't find my fathers soul when she was looking for it. Well either way, I am glad I can put these demons to rest now, I now know what happened to my parents all those years ago. Still, where in the hell are my mother's fragnts even at.'
Nier said to himself then he asked Lisa.
"...By chance, do you know where my mother's soul fragnts ended up?"
"Sadly no."
Said Lisa.
"Figured...sigh!!...
Nier said with slight annoyance, the problem here would be to find a way to locate those fragnts.
But for now, he wanted move on from the last of his questions to Lisa.
"So you really don't know who killed my mom?"
"I wish I can give you an answer, apart from the fact that he is with public service, and wears an oni mask, fashion like sothing straight out of a cyberpunk film...there is nothing else I can tell you that would be concrete or useful to you in that regard."
Lisa said to Nier causing him to say.
"Public Service ha!?... I figured they would be the main culprit, given what I learned about my dad, Anticu, and my own mother's past.. But it's hard to believe soone from that organization would leave alone if they knew my mother personally."
"There are many mysteries when it cos to your mother's death, but that person ca here with a plan already set in motion... Hell even after they cleaned up, they took away her soulless body, and switched it for a look alike."
"THEY WHATTTTT!?...
Nier shouted in shocked, and Lisa continued.
"Yeah, the intruders took her body right after they killed her.
"They loaded it into a truck. And they already prepared a double like I said, or rather it so poor bastard they had altered with magic to look enough like her. Then they used body-alteration magic to make the double pull the trigger, first on your father's corpse, that also had gun and shot at the body double making it looked like they killed each other, and by the way they were seated was enough proof to brush it off as a tragic case of double suicide."
Explained Lisa, as Nier listened carefully, the more the conversation went on the more pissed he was starting to feel, but his stoic nature allowed him to control his emotions despite the news.
As he let out a long, ragged sigh and said with a breath of finality.
"This is what happens when you keep too many goddamn secrets."
Nier muttered.
"Now I've gotta play avenger and detective to find out who was the man behind my mother's death."
A soft chi ca through the speakers, it was Lisa's quiet way of saying she heard him.
"I'm sorry, Master Nier. Truly…"
This was all Lisa could say at this mont.
But as Nier thought deeper on the situation, he couldn't help but ask.
"Not to be a prick, but why didn't you help them that night? Even sealed, you had basic defenses, so why didn't you help mother when she needed it?"
"My primary functions were locked down."
She said.
"But even without that… the intruders brought a wide-area suppression field. It jamd every piece of technology in a three-block radius. I was reduced to passive caras. Leaving with zero control or ti to co up with an appropriate counterasure. I was basically weaker than I was even in my hibernation mode. All I could do was watch once I was in that state."
Nier nodded once...slow, and accepting, even though it irked him.
"And why didn't you tell any of this back then?"
"Because it went against your mother's direct orders. She was very clear on her orders that you had to choose for yourself. A normal life… or the supernatural world. Telling you the truth about their deaths would have forced your hand. Pushed you into this life out of grief or revenge instead of your own decision. At least, that was her reasoning."
Nier let out another sigh, this one longer, heavier.
"I didn't like my mother. To this day I think she was a major cunt of the highest order. That hate hasn't gone anywhere."
Nier said admitingly.
"But…
He trailed off, his jaw tight.
"She was still my mother. All things considered. In principle, the least I owe her- the bare fucking minimum, is to avenge her."
Nier said looking back at the journal, then he asked another question.
"Is there anything else I need to know?"
"Aww, as matter of fact there is, I don't know if you have connections to other religions, but people from the Church were there too, working alongside public service. They showed up after the fight ended, and helped load your mother's body into the truck, after they sealed her in a black sarcophagus that was heavy layered down with a shit ton of holy wards, binding sigils, and sanctification runes. I even caught fragnts of their conversation while my passive sensors were still running."
Nier's headache spiked, a sharp throb behind his eyes when Lisa said those words.
"Why the hell was the Church there?"
"I don't know the full reason. But I heard one line clearly. An older bishop, with a heavy British accent, said: 'Ha haha, what a glorious sight, another pagan filth destroyed in the na of our Lord.' It makes think they had her death in mind for a long ti master, but what got truly worried was the fact that hey wanted to kill you too."
Nier's stomach lurched.
"They wanted to kill ..?"
"Yes... But another woman stepped in and basically prevented that from happening."
Lisa cut across quickly.
"A younger one from the way she looks, but soone that was of a higher rank than the bishop, judging by her voice. She argued hard against it, and said sothing around the lines of you having nothing to do with any of this. While also ntioning, that it would also violate the ancient contract."
"An ancient contract ha!? How fascinating…”
Nier echoed Lisa words, as confusion and curiosity began piling on his mind.
"I don't have more context on the situation, as the suppression field was degrading my audio horrifically. But she was firm, and they backed down, as a result you were spared."
Nier pressed the heels of his hands against his temples, his annoyance transmuting into a headache as he said.
"I have a lot of my plate already, but after our conversation here, even more toppings have flooded my nu now hah hah, just my luck I guess."
Public Service.
The Church.
A mystery sword laced with Negativity.
An Oni Masked Murder.
His mother's soul broken into seven pieces.
His father's soul locked in a book of flayed skin.
And now so ancient contract he has never heard ntioned about in his life.
But thankfully he, now know who his primary enemies truly are.
The Church for one, and above all else, Public Service, which can be considered the strongest organization on the planet, truly his luck was shit.
"But either way, it's better to always be with or against in a battle of information. My mother has left many things to fight against them, although it ain't going to be easy, that much is certain... Sigh, tell Lisa, with your mories now back, is there anything else of importance I need to know."
"I have many things to say master."
Lisa admitted, and she began to speak.
The speaker vibrating loudly in the room.
"First of all, approximately 258 ters down, a lab with your mother technology, and various research can be founded there. It also where my main core can be founded, I am still inside the Ærta-3."
"The what now!?"
"The Ærta-3... Our with proper pronunciation, it would sound like this... AIR-h-tah Three... It's the na of the ship I crash landed on, however it's been renad to Protheus."
"Wait, you an to tell this entire ti a giant lab was below this whole ti."
"Yes."
"...Where is the entrance to it then!?"
"There is no door or elevator, well there was once a door in the storehouse in the backyard, but your mother made it obsolete after having you, now it is just an underground storehouse that connects to multiple elevator systems below that can move you around to different parts of the property.
"Now… The only entrance to that place is through a spatial gate, using a spell from Asgardian Magic, that can teleport a person by opening up a Bifröst tunnel, which is basically travelling between two points in space."
"You have Asgardian magic as well."
"It's an old practice that uses Odins, and Vidars divine language as a base for singular or fuse spells to achieve different results during spell casting, but yes, I have access to Norse magic or Asgardian magic as it commonly called."
Lisa explained to Nier who began to chuckle even more.
"Well then, what are you waiting for, take there now."
"Sure, please don't move from that spot in the room."
In the next mont, a red magic circle appeared below Nier's feet, and like cutting a hole in reality, a gate to the other side was ford, and Nier fell through it.
The mont he did, he ended up in a warp space of many colors, each color leading to different parts of creation, but his body was already locked on to a certain point in space, as his body transford into pure light, but quickly reford into its default state, this ti in another location.
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