Chapter 32: Chapter 26.5: Mina’s mother
[news] I'll be making .5 chapters about Mina's true backstory, so readers can understand her better.[/news]
"My dear daughter, Mina, how are you feeling today?" An elegant man dressed in futuristic attire entered a sterile white room where the young 8-year-old Mina was busy working on building something.
"I'm fine, Papa. What do you need me to do today?" Mina turned to him with an innocent expression.
"I'm conducting another experiment, and I would like your help once more," he said with a smile as he knelt down to look at Mina.
"Are you going to hurt me again, Father?" Mina asked, her lips pursed.
"I'm only doing what's best for you, my dear. With cultivators going rogue nowadays, it's become dangerous for people like us, the Techmania. So, you must be strong, okay? For you and your mother," Mina's father said, hugging her warmly.
"Okay," Mina answered with a shaky voice.
"That's my daughter. I love you, my child. Together, we can bring your mother back," her father kissed her forehead and held her hand as they left the room.
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'Is this love? Is this what it means to love a child? It's much different from the books I've read,' Mina thought with teary eyes as she lay on a futuristic operation table, tubes extracting her blood and injecting substances into her.
'But Papa loves me and Mama, so I'll do my best!' she declared to herself and endured the pain.
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"Arghhhh!!!!" Mina screamed as she thrashed around on the table, causing the surgeons around her to stare nervously.
"Mina, you're screaming too loudly. We're just removing your arm for a project; there's no need to fear. It will regrow back!" One surgeon reassured her, pinning Mina down with a futuristic cuff to the table to help them with the amputation.
"Father, it hurts! I'm scared! I'm scared!!!" Mina screamed, looking around for her father.
"Don't worry, once we implant the ancient Floop, Starlight, and Succubus genes in you, your healing will increase tremendously. So, please, be calm," her father came to sit by her and comforted her. "Just turn around. You'll be given sleep serums so you won't feel any pain. Finally, we can bring your mother back," he said with a smile that made her uneasy, but he was the only one who cared for her.
"Father, I'm scared. I don't want to go through this," Mina cried, but her father's kind expression twisted.
"Just shut up! Do you want your mother to remain dead? We're doing this for her, so don't forget that. Because if you weren't born, your mother would still be alive!!" he yelled at her.
"Go through with the operation! If any of you fail, you're dead!!" He yelled before storming out.
"Mina, please comply with us," a surgeon said calmly, and a robot appeared by Mina's side and injected her, causing her eyes to feel heavy and her to lose her sense of pain.
'I must not worry, my father is doing this because he loves me. I'm his daughter! Once Mother is back, we'll all be happy,' Mina told herself as she fell asleep.
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"The operation was a success! Her wounds fully healed!" A surgeon declared with a happy expression causing cheers in the room.
"Mina, kill them all," her father commanded through a screen.
"What, sir? Why??" A surgeon asked with a nervous expression.
"A fusion between three powerful races was successful. I do not trust any of you to keep this a secret. Furthermore, you could steal her away! You think I haven't seen your eyes, filthy humans are always filled with filth!"
"Sir… Sir, this…" one surgeon tried to defend, but before he could finish, a purple light flashed, puncturing a hole through the man's chest. And from behind was Mina, who had extended her finger and it was glowing.
"Sir, please spare us, we'll never tell a soul!!" Another yelled, but his head was swiftly cut off by Mina with her scythe-like nails, and she continued to murder everyone in the room.
"Father, I finally finished," Mina declared happily as she stepped out of the room, her eyes briefly displaying two heart signs that soon disappeared.
"You did well," he said, walking up to her and patting her head.
"Father, can I meet Mother?" Mina asked.
'Why is his face so scary?' she wondered as she stared up at him.
"Yes, we can," he said as he escorted Mina through the building.
Mina watched as she saw the workers and robots scramble when crossing paths with her father.
She happily looked up at him, but his face couldn't be seen by her.
After a while of walking, Mina and her father finally arrived at a large dark room, and they walked to the middle of it.
In the middle was a tube of glowing blue water that reflected an extremely beautiful woman, and Mina was like a mini copy of her.
Mina stared at the woman in awe as she lifelessly floated in the water.
Long green hair floated in the water, her beautiful brown skin, and perfect body. She had two large horns on her head, as well as two bat wings on her back, and a cute tail.
This was her mother, a succubus.
"When succubus gives birth, they make a choice to sacrifice their own lives so their child can live. Giving birth drains their life energy, so they usually have only a few children to ensure their survival. However, you took all of your mother's life energy like a leech. But she smiled happily as she gave birth to you. Finally, we can bring back the love of my life!" Her father declared happily.
"So, Mina, with the power of the Floops and Starlight, you were made a halfling. Now, I would like to make a wish!"
"What wish, Father?" Mina asked curiously.
"Bring your mother to life," he stated with a crazed expression.
'Why is he so obsessed with Mother? Am I not his child? Shouldn't I be the one to be loved and not her?' Mina wondered, biting her lips as her father waited for her words.
'Why don't I get all the love? I don't want her to live. If she does, she'll take it all from me!' Mina thought with cold, dead eyes, gripping her palm.
"Father, do you love me as your daughter?" Mina asked, looking up at her father.
"Why ask that question?" he replied coldly.
"I don't want ..Mother to come… back to life because you're… too obsessed with her," she nervously blurted out. Her father immediately grabbed her by the collar, his expression filled with rage.
"How dare you say that?! After all that I have done for you to get this power. If not for you, your mother would be alive!" he yelled angrily.
"I don't care! If I can't be loved by my own father, neither can she by you!" Mina yelled as her eyes and hair glowed brightly.
"Professor, get away from Mina quickly! She's going berserk! Her energy levels are rising beyond normal!" a scientist behind them warned. Seeing Mina's eyes turn blank, he knew she would be unable to hear him.
He immediately activated his gear and teleported away. From Mina's body, dark purple tentacles appeared, growing large and thrashing the building, killing any scientists they came across.
Mina looked at her mother in the tube floating. She stared at the woman with hateful eyes and swiped her hand, causing the tentacles to crash into it and devour her body.
"Mother, I hate you!" Mina yelled as she sat there crying, while her tentacles moved through the entire building, crushing every scientist they encountered, leaving the area filled with blood.
"I'll be safe here," Mina's father told himself as he hid in his office.
"Why aren't my gadgets working? Is it because of her power? That crazy ungrateful child! She couldn't even fulfill one wish of her mother! I shouldn't have kept her alive!" he yelled in frustration, scratching his head.
A sudden bang then snapped him from his rant, revealing that a tentacle had busted through the door, causing him to tremble in fear.
"Mina, calm down. You wouldn't kill your own father, would you? I made you this way," he said nervously, but the tentacle glowed darkly with a purple light, and her father could sense her killing intent.
The tentacle inched closer, and Mina's father backed away, his eyes wide with terror.
"Mina, listen to me!" he pleaded, his voice shaking. "You don't understand what you're doing. We can fix this. We can still be a family!"
However his words fell on deaf ears and the tentacles coiled and tightened around her father, lifting him off the ground.
"I, Duogin Rianfas, won't just die like this!" he yelled, picking up a gun and shooting at the tentacle. But the tentacle immediately regenerated, forming into a large mouth that devoured him whole.
Back in the room, Mina sat there as a woman walked in. She was beautiful, with short black hair and a pair of mesmerizing purple eyes similar to Mina's. Her pointed ears similar to and elfs, and her skin was a striking shade of purple. A child stayed by her side, staring at Mina.
"Mina, calm down," the woman stated calmly, hugging Mina, who didn't avoid her embrace.
"I'm tired," Mina said, her eyes red from crying.
"Aunty Vivian, you're like me, aren't you? The only one like me and your daughter," Mina said, looking at them.
"Yes, I am. I'm sorry I made you go through all that. Your mother was my sister. I really wanted to bring her back to life, but I was so wrong," Vivian said with teary eyes. "I didn't know how much this would hurt you. I assumed you'd be fine because succubi have healing powers. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me, Mina." Vivian's eyes were filled with tears, but Mina's expression remained dead and cold.
Vivian's daughter stepped forward, her small hand reaching out to touch Mina's. "We're here for you, Mina," she said softly with a smile but Mina could clearly see that she was afraid of her.
"I remember you," Mina blurted out.