Chapter 24: ConfessionLuna Pov

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  Breakfast time, and I'm really looking forward to it! After all, no one could ever beat Mom's cooking. I'm seriously wondering if she's using alchemy to enhance the taste. Well, it could also be that I'm her child. After all, it's practically a rule for a child to love their mother's cooking.

  "Here comes breakfast!" Mom shouts and then brings the food across the room and onto the table. It's a croissant this time and, as always, it's heavenly. Truly. No one can beat Mom in cooking. I have a feeling I'm repeating myself. Seems like I truly am nervous. Yesterday was my birthday, and today I want to confess something to my parents. I no longer want to deceive them. And, I want them to understand me.

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  Hec Tic Pov

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  "Dad, Mom. I need to tell you something," Luna starts after we have eaten breakfast. From the look in her eyes, this is going to be a heavy topic. "I'm not from this world," she drops the bomb. What does she mean by "not from this world"?! Is she an imposter? No, I saw her grow up! I would know if she's an imposter! Then what…

  Suddenly, a screen appears in front of us, beside Luna. It shows a blue ball. Then it zooms in, focusing on a middle-aged man. He is holding a weird object in his right hand, while his left hand is pced on a bizarre board with various symbols. The man is looking intently at a screen.

  "Ten years ago, I was a thirty-year-old in a different world. I had practically given up on life, holing myself up in my room. In that world, we had something called electricity. It's hard to expin, but it allowed for a bunch of crazy things that would only be possible with magic here to be done by normal humans. There was also something called video games. Something where you used these objects," Luna points to the objects the middle-aged man is holding, "to control a virtual character."

  What?! Is she telling the truth? Then how did she become a child? I don't remember Fana giving birth to a middle-aged man. Or did Fana use her alchemy? I look toward Fana, seeing the same shock as mine. Doesn't seem like it! Then…

  "One of the games I pyed was called Pocket Heroines. It was a game where you were living as a character in an academy called Ifrit Academy. In that world, ever so often, a demon king would be born, and a hero would ter vanquish that demon king. The person you were pying was actually the hero of that generation."

  Wait! Why does that sound so much like this world?! Does this mean we are all not alive?! Just some virtual existences? Wait, is she even telling the truth? Could…

  "In that game, I did something everyone considered impossible because of how difficult it was. Then a goddess came out of the screen. This was something that seemed impossible from my perspective back then, as magic didn't exist in my old world. The goddess then told me that, by completing this thing, I won them a bet against the dark goddess. Then she gave me a wish, and I wished to be reincarnated in this world. Then I turned unconscious, and the next moment, I was a baby girl who had just come out of Mom's womb."

  So we are real? Wait, is she even telling the truth? Or is she just messing with us? No. This is not her type of messing with us. Also, it would expin everything. It would expin why she was so smart and knew so much. So did she repce our real child? Or were we originally not supposed to have a child? Did the…

  "I told you!" Fana suddenly shouts at me. "I told you that the contraception worked! The only reason I still had a child is because of the intervention of a goddess!"

  Then Fana turns to Luna and shouts, "No wonder you were such a genius! But honestly, being the first in the whole world to complete that game thing! Truly, my child is the greatest genius to ever exist!"

  Meanwhile, Luna looks at her bnkly. I can guess what is going through her head. After all, I probably felt exactly the same when I confessed to Fana. The feeling of, after a lot of convincing yourself, telling somebody something important, and then having the person fixate on something so unimportant. I can still remember it as if it happened yesterday. How I confessed to Fana, and she suddenly shouted to seemingly no one, "I knew it! I knew that he loved me!" and then to me, "Yes, by the way."

  Knowing how Luna must feel, I grab her hands from across the table and tell her, "No matter what, you will always be our child. That won't change, even if you are a reincarnation of somebody. We have seen you grow up. The time we spent together is far more important than some blood retionship. Even if you have unintentionally taken over the body of our child, you would still be a child."

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  Luna Pov

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  Seeing Dad understand my worries so quickly, I can't help but think about my past life. I was born with an above-average size. Additionally, while growing up, I had above-average strength. Everywhere I went, people would fear me. Every time I tried to make friends in elementary school, they would instead perceive my wish as a threat. And they would tell their parents that I threatened them. Then my parents would be called, and my parents would believe their parents, never listening to my version of the story.

  It continued like that until I was in university, and even my teachers feared me. They wouldn't confront me directly anymore, but still record my "bad behaviour". In the end, I got an expulsion notice for "repeatedly threatening students and teachers". When I tried to bring it before the w, I still lost.

  My parents, disappointed by my "bad behaviour", threw me out of the house. Then I failed to get a job anywhere, the moment the companies learned of my expulsion for bad behaviour. In my desperation, I tried stocks, and luckily won a lot of money. Since then, I've been holed up in my room pying computer games. However, I still had to pay several fines for "threatening" the delivery boys to not pay for the food before finally setting up a camera to avoid such incidents in the future.

  As I think about my parents back then, who threw me out after not believing their own child, I look towards my parents now, and a tear can't help but roll down my cheeks. Truly. This life is a thousand times better than my st.

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