Pov Dia,
Four: "That will be all for my report."
Dia: "Thank you, you can go back to work."
Four had appeared to give me an account of Riri and So-tan's trip to Japan in the hope of finding a future member for their peerage.
Riri was accompanied by a Knight from Oni-sama, and So-tan by Zelda.
Sairaorg had already started and already had an idea of whom to recruit, apart from Regulus — mostly from the fallen Devil families.
According to Four, So-tan hadn't found a member yet, but Riri had — and this member was very interesting since she was half Fallen Angel.
I don't know what happened, but she must have suffered a trauma that left her feeling sad, still according to the report.
So, I decided that after my day at school, I would go meet her.
Upon arriving at the Gremory mansion, I was taken directly to Riri's room because the Fallen Angel girl's room was next to hers.
I first spoke to Riri to tell her that I would talk to her future peerage member, but without giving an explanation, and that she was not allowed to enter or intervene, no matter what was said.
As I entered the girl's room, I saw her again, arms resting on her knees.
Dia: "What do you call yourself, little girl?"
Akeno: "Himejima Akeno."
Everything was now clear about the situation. The Himejima are one of the five families of omoujin, so being a half-breed must have made their racists very cruel towards her.
When I asked her to explain her situation, she started crying, saying that her mother had been murdered by members of her clan because of the relationship she had with her father, who was a Fallen Angel — but not just any Fallen Angel. Akeno's father was Barakiel.
She ended by saying in a low voice that she should never have been born and that she should have died.
Dia: "I have a question for you. Did your mother love you, and do you love her back?"
Akeno: "What are you saying? Of course she loved me! She was the best mother in the world... I would have liked to die in her place."
Dia: "Then why do you spit on her memory? Why do you want to die when she sacrificed herself so you could live? Is that really all you feel about your mother? According to your words, she always loved you, and that love had nothing to do with whether or not you're half Fallen Angel. You say you want to die, yet she gave her life for a girl like you — so that you could live. Don't you realize that you're spitting on her memory and treating her sacrifice as foolishness? So, do you have no heart?"
I know what it is like to love your daughter and to be willing to sacrifice your life for her — because that's exactly what I would do. But she shows no gratitude towards her mother, and that... I may not accept.
I made a crimson dagger appear and planted it on the bedside table.
Dia: "If that's how you feel, take this dagger and drive it into your heart — so you can see the disappointment in your mother's eyes, the mother who wanted you to live."
She was about to cry.
Dia: "TAKE IT, I SAID!"
My aura burst from my body as I shouted those words.
Dia: "Show me that you really hated your mother — that you despise what she loved with all her heart. DENY ALL THE LOVE YOU RECEIVED FROM HER BY DRIVING THIS DAGGER INTO YOUR HEART!"
She trembled so much that she couldn't move. Seeing this, I gave up and left the room.
Dia: "I never want to hear you talk about your mother like that again. Accept what she loved in you instead of rejecting all that love and turning against yourself."