Return of the Fallen Volume 9 Chapter 63
Danny analyzed the Titan in front of him.
(She can appear nice and sweet but mentioning her husband brings a terrifying rage. She gets that way when it comes to her husband but mentioning that her sons are monsters and that she’s an ill-fit mother only brought her curiosity and made her want to have a chat. She seems to care for the world but just like her sons, she doesn’t seem to care about the creatures inhabiting it, though she’s more favorable than her sons when it comes to people. How can I use this knowledge against her? How can I convince her to save us?)
Danny was quiet for only a few seconds but this amount of time passing annoyed Detra for some reason.
“If you have nothing else to say then I’ll be taking my leave. I guess this was all you wanted.”
Bright purple light gathered around Detra as she prepared to teleport away. Just before she left Danny quickly thought of something and blurted it out.
“What’s more important, your sons or this world!?”
Detra stopped for a moment and stared at Danny but she didn’t answer right away. Danny took this opportunity and continued.
“The fact that you didn’t answer right away, the fact that there’s even the slightest bit of hesitation, it means something does it not?”
Detra raised a brow. The purple glow around her died down as her curiosity grew more.
“Means something, what meaning, what exactly are you implying about me?”
Danny was about to speak but he remembered how fast this Titan could become angry and he paused.
“Why aren’t you answering, speak.”
“If I do, and I say something you dislike, won’t you just take it out on me. Just like when I mentioned…the other thing, it felt like I was about to have my soul erased before you let me go. Will you promise not to harm me or my friends if you find my words unpleasant?”
“Why should I make a promise with a small creature such as…
Detra stopped here. She could see that Danny’s metal lips would be sealed if she didn’t agree to this. She found the situation slightly entertaining and such a little promise was easily kept. SHe would lose nothing from agreeing so she nodded.
“Fine, I will not destr…Harm you or your friends, now tell me what you were going to say.”
Danny took her at her word and went in.
“The fact that there was any hesitation when choosing your sons or the world itself, tells me you are one of two things. What mother would ever hesitate in choosing their sons over anything else, the world be damned. Even if the world was truly ending and the mother and sons would be cast into oblivion, the mother would still choose her sons. Her family which she has raised up herself and given meaning. Her sons who in her eye could do no wrong. Her sons who
“Your blabbering, get to the point.”
Detras interruption was unexpected but Danny wasn’t thrown and continued.
“I wonder why you hesitated if you loved your sons without exception but then I realized you don’t.”
“You’re telling me to my face that I don’t love my sons.”
Energy began to gather around Detra again but Danny didn’t stop.
“In my opinion, you don’t love them, at least not how you used to. Maybe there is some love still there but it’s a far cry from what it used to be. Instead, the feeling I get from you when it comes to those monsters is more disappointment and resentment. For a mother’s love to turn into such feelings when it comes to her sons, it means the mother isn’t fully at fault.”
Detra pulled back her imposing power after hearing the last part of Danny’s sentence.
“That’s right. I did my best with them but they eventually followed their own paths. I didn’t raise them to be this way. I…I didn’t want them to go the way they did but how can I not give them their freedom.”
Danny could see he was getting somewhere and pressed his advantage.
“That’s right. I’m not a mother but even I know a mother can only hold onto her child for so long before she must force them from the nest. What they do after, the mother can not take all of the blame for that. Especially when her children hold such power and strength. It’s not like you could have done anything to ever stop their actions…Right?”
Detra went quiet.
“I mean if there was any way you could have stopped them from becoming the way they are, surely you would have done it in a heartbeat. A good mother knows when to use the stick and when to use the carrot…Right?”
“Stop.”
Detra looked at Danny, her angry expression softening.
“I…I could have stopped them but if I had done so…they would have left just like…”
Danny held no sympathy for this Titan who thought so little of human lives but still, he pulled a move by Kazuki and acted like he felt for her. He spoke calmly and gently like a friend.
“You were afraid that they would abandon you?”
Detra nodded. No longer was she mad but instead she had a sad expression.
“When my husband left to a higher realm, he never came back. All that was left was this world he created and my two sons. How can I reprimand them? I can see his personality in the two of them. Though they are all different from one another, I can still see similar qualities in all of them. My husband always said I nagged him too much and then he left. If I became too much of a bother toward my sons, they…wouldn’t they say the same thing and leave me?”
(Is she for real. Is this the reason she just watches their disgusting behavior, she doesn’t want them to leave her. So this whole thing is just a twisted family drama. This is why so many have died. This is why so many were sacrificed, treated like objects, and left for the fucking vultures. Calm down, do not misspeak here and now. She is still one of the most powerful beings in this world if not the strongest. Do not lose your cool and therefore your advantage. This Titan is riding her emotions and has shown that she can’t think clearly when it comes to her sons or her husband.)
Danny knew that he was a bit robotic sometimes in the way he thinks. Yes, he could get angry just like everyone else, he wasn’t void of emotion, rather he tended to think in a more logical sense. For Detra, he couldn’t come at her with just his logical way of thinking and had to tap into his empathetic side so to speak.
(She feels abandoned and does not wish to experience it again. That much is understandable but at the same time, she seems conflicted which was obvious from her hesitation to answer which was more important. She values the world just as much if not more not because she cares about the lives in it but because it was left behind by her husband. She calls it his legacy but from the way she mentions his abrupt leaving, it sounds more like he could care less. That’s logical but I certainly can’t mention that. I have to appeal to her emotions and play into them somewhat if I am to see potential results in my favor.)
“I think I understand you now. The reason you protect this world isn’t that you love it more than your sons but instead you see it as a beacon of hope. You believe that if you keep this world safe and if you don’t pressure your sons, then one day, your husband will one day return, and when he does, his loving wife and sons, his family will be there waiting for him. It’s not only your sons you resent, it’s also this world, am I right?”
Detra noded and a few tears began to stream down her face.
“If I leave Gordonia to go and search for him, I won’t be able to protect it while I’m gone. If it’s destroyed while I’m away, even if I do find my husband, how could I ever look him in the eye again? He would surely hate me forever. I could use my powers on the world, stop the time here and prevent those in this world from destroying it but I would only be able to keep this world frozen in time for a few hundred years. What would happen if I don’t find him at that time and something happens. I can’t ask my sons to watch over it because, well you’ve seen them, you know. Because of this, I have to remain here, trapped and waiting on this prison of a planet. How could I not resent it.”
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