Reincarnated As The Hero’s Daughter: Wait, Why Is My MP Not Running Out?

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"Did you know these people?" I asked.

August sighed, cleaning his glasses and putting them back up to look at them again.

Then he closed his eyes and massaged his forehead.

"Yes…" he sighed melancholically. "They… they had just started working as adventurers only a year ago."

"Oh…"

"It was as big party of eight too," he sighed. "They were confident that numbers meant they could survive better. They were… well, three of them were childhood friends… the rest were all recruited over the year. All of them coming from smaller villages to the big city with even bigger dreams."

"That’s so sad…" I sighed.

They looked a bit like us, there was even a girl with red hair, a boy with green hair, dwarves and demons made almost the entire party, there was a human though.

I wonder, if we hadn’t been born with our families, with the powers we were granted and the talents we had.

Would our fate have ended like them too?

What if I didn’t have my system or all these skills? What if Aquarina and I were just simple country girls with no famous, heroic parents?

We might have worked even harder to get where these kids got…

Yet… we might have died so easily as well.

"Hmm…" August sighed. "May you rest in peace."

He started praying after spraying some aromatic, floral liquid over the bodies.

He even lit up some candles, praying calmly.

"He’s praying?" Celeste wondered.

"Leave him, it’s his customs," I whispered to her, almost giving her a little smack to not be disrespectful.

August smiled after he finished.

"I was praying to no god," he said. "I only pray to the world."

"The World?" I wondered.

"There is a religion in the Demon Continent, which has also spread around the demon communities here," said August. "It’s the religion of Mother Terrarium. We all know the planet is alive, right? We call her a mother of our kind. As the original race of this world, we demons, or at least many of us, see the planet as our mother."

"I see… In a way, she is indeed alive," I nodded.

"Mother Terrarium has never spoken to any of us," he said. "There are no tales where she communicated with anybody ever before. But we know she made us, we know she made this world, and we know she created the ancient demon king to protect the world, his son. However, even then, we pray to her. Because we know she oversees the souls and the afterlife. They might have died, these kids… but as long as they’re within Mother Terrarium’s embrace, they will have better second lives. It is believed that the more one suffer in life, the better your second life will be, to compensate."

"Oooh…" I nodded. "I wonder… Celica, did you see their souls?"

She can see souls after all.

"Hm, no, they were long gone when we got there," said Celica.

"I see… well, that’s good then," smiled August. "Someone with Phantasmal Magic… so this is your talent, little Celica? A wonderful power, and a very rare one."

"Uh-huh, thank you," Celica smiled.

"You are a friend of dead spirits, are you not?" he wondered. "Treat them well. They help you because they want to make something right before passing away, did you know?"

"Eh? Ah, I sometimes feel like those that help me through my magic are guilty, even monsters and animals," she said. "Why is it like that?"

"It’s because we all have some guilt in us," August said. "When we die, that guilt accumulates in the soul, and sometimes we might remain, to do something… anything, to make that little dark color go away. When there’s too much of that black color, wild undead monsters are born, specters, ghosts, zombies, skeletons, and so on. They become savages craving to amend their sins somehow, lost in their own madness and frustrations."

"That’s really interesting…" I said.

"Hm, yeah…" Celeste glanced at her own spear. "My spear is made out of cursed souls in a way… Is it like this too?"

"Hmmm, such a weapon wouldn’t even be able to cooperate with you in the first place," he said. "But maybe it has become something else. Perhaps… it believes it can pass away peacefully if it protects you and fights for you. You’ve created a bond with them, with these souls… and through this bond, they might find salvation."

"I see…" Celeste nodded, smiling lightly, caressing her black spear. "Thank you for being by my side all this time."

The spear remained just there, without moving or saying anything.

"Alright then," August nodded. "Now, we shall see what we can do. I’ll try to contact each of their families or friends. We’ll keep them frozen for now until they identify them and then we cremate them, we offer such services for free."

"Amazing…" I nodded. "Thank you Sir August."

"It’s nothing, I would say thanks to you for bringing my kids here," he sighed. "Let’s just hope they get a better chance in the next life, hm?"

"Yeah… They’ll surely do," I nodded.

After all, I reincarnated, and had a much better life than before, so all he said was true.

I’m sure these young adventurers will come back one day and have a much better life.

They’ll be happy, and perhaps, one day, they’ll met again.

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We walked out of the room and into the adventurer guild’s main quarters, as I noticed a speech patter that August always used.

"Hm, now that I’ve realized, you love calling everyone here your kids, huh?" I wondered.

"Hahah, you caught me," he laughed. "Yes… of course I do this. The adventurers here, most of them are very young! And much younger than me… To me, they’re all my kids. My family! I was once like them, another unruly brat causing mischief and getting almost killed inside dungeons, so I know very well their lives. And I also know most of these young adventurers lack the money because they’re either orphans or have very poor families. I feel it’s my duty… to be there for them, as their father figure. I… I love all of them, as unruly and annoying as they can be. They’re good kids… So that’s why when I see them come back like that… I feel a lot of pain. I bear with it but… you know, it hurts."

"Yeah… I’m sorry," I nodded. "You’re an amazing person, sir."

"Hahaha… What with that?" he laughed. "I’m just another old man…"

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