This is an utter disgrace!

Eileen wore over-the-knee black high-heeled boots, with only a black cloth bearing the insignia of the Alvarez Empire tied around her waist, which swayed gently and rhythmically as her plump thighs crossed.

Her skin was fair and firm, almost beyond human comprehension, and a faint smile always graced her lips, enough to captivate and entice.

With every gesture, an endless charm flows out like moonlight.

As expected of mother and daughter, Irene and Erza look exactly alike, but their temperaments are worlds apart.

If we compare them to weapons, Erza's beauty is a sharp sword with its edge fully exposed, while Irene is a timeless artifact whose sharpness has been worn away by time, yet which has become more gentle and profound.

Simply put, Erin is a "Plus" version of Erza. Having experienced the vicissitudes of life, her eyes hold a calm and mature indifference that comes with seeing through the ways of the world.

Just as Hope was staring intently at the scene, Eileen put down her teacup, suddenly looked up and turned her gaze toward him, a playful smile curving her lips.

"Little friend, have you seen enough?"

"If it's not enough, you can sit here with your older sister and get a better look."

Hearing that gentle voice, Hope instinctively replied, "Really? Sister?"

"hiss--!"

Before she could finish speaking, Hope gasped in pain.

It turned out that Erza had reached out and pinched his waist hard, and the death stare from behind made Hope break out in a cold sweat.

Erza glared at her husband with displeasure. "You're a son-in-law who's barely married yet, and you keep staring at your mother-in-law. I can understand it, after all, I also think my mother is very charming."

But Hope even called her "sister"...

How can this be allowed!

Erza doesn't want to end up with Hope calling her niece while she calls him husband.

Yes, that's it, there's absolutely no other reason!

Seeing this, Eileen, who smelled the vinegar, smiled even more broadly. She waved her hand, and the teapot on the coffee table automatically poured two more cups of tea.

"Sit down and let's talk."

"Juliet, Heine, step back."

Heine and Juliet acknowledged the call and withdrew, gently closing the door behind them.

Hope unceremoniously pulled Erza to sit down, but Erza, on the contrary, became even more nervous as she got closer to her mother.

Eileen's gaze remained fixed on Erza. In fact, from the moment Hope and Erza entered the room, she hadn't looked anywhere else. Teasing Hope was just a side effect.

Something was churning in those amber eyes.

It's too complicated, so complicated that even Hope couldn't understand it at first.

But it was clear that she had recognized the person in front of her as her biological daughter whom she had abandoned twenty years ago.

Erza looked at Erin as well. She opened her mouth, but all the words she had thought of to say when she met her mother along the way seemed to be stuck in her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word.

The atmosphere remained awkwardly tense.

Seeing that neither mother nor daughter spoke, Hope decided to change the subject and talk about something else to give them a break. "Sister Eileen, oh no... Senior Eileen, those two maids just now, were they created with 'enchantment'?"

Eileen raised an eyebrow, looking at the lecherous brat with some surprise. "You actually saw through me? You can also use 'Enchanting Techniques'?"

Hope made no attempt to hide it, "That's right, I am just like you, a high-ranking Spectral Mage, and also a Dragon Slayer Mage."

Erza looked at her with a puzzled expression. She didn't understand what the two were talking about at all. Weren't Juliet and Heine both human?

They breathe, have heartbeats, emotions, body temperature, can think, and possess magic. They are also very powerful and seem no different from ordinary people.

How did we suddenly get onto the topic of enchantments...?

To save Erza's face, Hope used telepathy to explain to her.

When the "Enchanting Spell" is powerful enough, it can perform outrageous operations such as "enchanting" inanimate objects with personalities.

An object imbued with a personality will take on a human form, possess human emotions, and be able to use magic.

In fact, when Hope met Irene's two personal maids, Heine and Juliet, he immediately recognized that they were not human, but two swords, one black and one white, that had been "added with personalities".

When Erza heard that the two living maids were actually two weapons, her heart was in turmoil. Although she had long been prepared for her mother's strength, she never expected her to be this strong.

After this brief interlude, the awkward atmosphere finally began to flow again.

Eileen looked at Erza, her voice cold and calm, devoid of any emotion, "I never expected that you, a vessel that cannot contain my personality, would still survive, and even more shamelessly come knocking on my door."

The words spoken in a calm tone were cruel.

Hope frowned, keenly noticing that Erza's breath hitched. She was overjoyed to be reunited with her mother, but was told this. How heartbroken she must be.

He quietly took her hand, and while he was thinking about how to flip the table and how much force to use to beat his mother-in-law, Hope discovered that Erza wasn't as heartbroken as he had imagined.

Erza wasn't truly heartbroken, but she was still saddened, not because her mother called her a "vessel," but simply because she felt sad for Erin.

“We know everything now, so you don’t need to pretend to hate me anymore, and you don’t need to worry about hurting me because of your obsession.”

Erza, who already knew about Erin's ordeal, paused for a moment, hesitated, and then uttered the two words she had dreamed of having since childhood.

"Mother."

Chapter 409 The Scarlet Return

Upon hearing Erza's words, Irene's feigned disgust changed slightly.

Twenty years ago, Eileen, who had transformed into a dragon and was hiding in the deep mountains and forests, encountered Zeref, who was looking for a place to retreat into his shell.

In a state of depression, Jelf sympathizes with Irene's plight.

Even a powerful Dark Mage cannot turn a Dragon Slayer Mage who has turned into a dragon back into a human.

Zeref, true to his magical genius, immediately came up with a solution, taking a different approach: by altering Erin's external form, he used magic to transform her into a human.

But this only creates an outward appearance; in essence, Eileen is still a dragon.

In the past, because dragons could not reproduce, Eileen was finally able to give birth to the child she had been carrying for 400 years after she transformed back into a human.

After giving birth, Eileen went to rest in a nearby village and was horrified to find that she had lost her sense of taste and could not taste anything she ate.

To make matters worse, she completely lost sleep.

Eileen Hope was betrayed by the people she was protecting. In order to protect the child in her womb, she completely transformed into a dragon and lived a lonely life in the deep mountains and forests for 400 years, leaving her spirit riddled with holes.

She thought everything would be alright after she gave birth.

But there was no happy ending after suffering. The series of abnormalities in her body caused Eileen's rationality, which had already reached its limit over 400 years, to completely collapse.

The obsession with turning back into a human instantly took over, crushing a mother's humanity. At that moment, Irene was almost insane, doing something crazy that even shocked Zeref.

She plans to use a personality boost on her newborn child.

Under normal circumstances, "Additional Personality" cannot be effective on living beings, but in reality, as long as the magic power is strong enough, this restriction is practically meaningless.

Eileen happens to possess the power to ignore limitations.

Driven by her obsessive madness, Eileen had gone so far as to try to transfer her personality onto her newborn daughter.

To put it nicely, it's an additional personality.

But in reality, it's possession.

But at the last moment, great maternal love triumphed over her mad obsession, regaining the high ground of reason, and Eileen ultimately could not bring herself to harm the adorable baby girl in her swaddling clothes.

Four hundred years ago, betrayed, humiliated, and abused by her own people, Eileen's motivation to endure round after round of cruel torture was to protect the child in her womb.

But later, those people went so far as to cut open her stomach and gouge out her child alive.

Driven by an intense protective instinct for her child, Eileen unleashed her full magical power in a fit of rage, transforming into a crimson dragon that destroyed the very country she had once risked her life to protect.

Having gone to such lengths to protect her child, how could Eileen possibly bear to truly harm her daughter?

But Eileen also understands that as long as her obsession with turning back into a human remains, the mad idea of ​​possessing her daughter will eventually overwhelm her sanity, which is on the verge of collapse.

For the sake of her child's safety, Eileen, a new mother, ultimately had to make a heartbreaking decision.

Keep your child away from you, this dangerous mother.

Eileen found a peaceful and loving village and quietly left her child at the entrance of the village church. She hoped her daughter could live a peaceful life, instead of fighting and killing like she had.

After leaving with a look back every three steps, Eileen accepted his invitation to join the Alvarez Empire in order to repay Jelf's kindness.

Over the past twenty years, Eileen had considered returning to Ishgar to see her daughter, but she was even more afraid that if she went back, she would have the crazy idea of ​​possessing her child again, so she forced herself to become cold-blooded and ruthless.

But now, Eileen's daughter, whom she thought she would never see again, has come to her.

Not only did she know of her irresponsible mother's existence, but she also knew of her shameful past.

Meeting Erza's pained gaze, Eileen almost couldn't maintain her deliberately cold demeanor. She turned her head away, forcing herself to keep her voice icy.

"What are you saying? I don't understand."

Erza looked at the hideous wound on Erin's left abdomen, the scar left 400 years ago when her biological father tried to cut open her mother's stomach.

Thinking of this, the girl's eyes reddened slightly.

Watching this scene, Hope sighed inwardly. As expected of mother and daughter, Irene and Erza were exactly the same in their stubbornness and resilience.

Since that's the case, let him, the prospective son-in-law, explain everything clearly.

The next second, the energy fluctuations of the "Holy Dragon Slayer" magic filled the living room.

Sensing a unique magical power almost identical to her own Dragon Slayer Magic, Irene momentarily forgot about Erza and looked at Hope in surprise.

"How can your magic be...?"

"How could it be the same as your magic?"

Hope smiled slightly, "Senior, you and I are both Enchanted Mages who can use Dragon Slayer Magic, but fate has it that my Dragon Slayer Magic, like yours, is a power personally bestowed upon me by the 'Wise Dragon' through the 'Enchanted Magic'."

Upon hearing Hope's explanation, Eileen's expression instantly reverted to its previous coldness. "Don't joke around, Belserion has been dead for a long time."

Actually, there are other ways to obtain the "Holy Dragon Slayer" magic, after all, there are more than just the Wise Dragon among the Holy Dragons, but Belserion's special magic power is something that other dragons do not have.

But the magic that Hope exudes cannot be faked.

Eileen was now convinced that after she destroyed the kingdom and left, the Wise Dragon's body was dug up and his heart was made into a Dragon Slayer Crystal.

Hope's "Holy Dragon Slayer" magic originated from this.

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