This is a memory that Anna had lost, but just came back to her. It takes place not long after Anna and Basara parted ways.
Anna had been traveling for a little while now, just like she told Basara she would. But, after that short journey, she reached a conclusion.
"I really have nowhere to go and nothing to do huh. Besides, food and traveling expenses are getting to me faster than I thought they would. Maybe I should pay Basara and the girls a visit. Given Basara's track record, at least as far as I know, there's a high change I'll end up like the other girls if I stay close to him for long enough, but I guess it's better than just traveling alone like this."
Anna had about convinced herself. She had started this journey to sort a few things on her head, but she actually managed to do it faster than she expected. She was about to turn back toward the Toujou household when she heard a voice calling her from behind.
"If you have so much free time, mind helping us out a bit?"
Anna turned around to see who it was. She hadn't recognized the voice, but she knew the face. There wasn't a hero who didn't know that face. After all it was the strongest hero, Jin Toujou, Basara's father.
There was also a woman with him, though Anna had no idea who she was. It was a beautiful woman with red hair and eyes. At first glance, Anna thought the woman reminded her of Mio, but that's likely just a coincidence.
"You're… Jin Toujou, Basara's father, aren't you? I can't imagine something you'd need help with, much less something I could help."
"Don't worry, as long as you come with us, it'll already be a great help."
Anna clearly still hasn't understood what Jin wanted of him, but before she could ask for any further details, the woman accompanying Jin spoke to him.
"Jin, are you sure she's really the one? I can feel her divine power, but…"
"Yeah. I noticed it not too long ago, when she used her powers to help Basara heal. She can do it. The time has finally come for us to get together again."
Anna was feeling a bit left out. She was curious about what they were talking about, but there was no way for her to know if they didn't tell her. Jin seemed to notice that, so he decided to introduce himself and his companion.
"Sorry about this. As you already know, I'm Jin. This one here with me is none other than Basara's mother, one of them at least, and sister of the previous Demon King, Sapphire."
Jin poked at Sapphire a little until she gave in and gave Anna a little wave and said "I'm Sapphire." It was a bit early to judge, but maybe Sapphire wasn't good with introducing herself.
"Ah, I see. So she's… wait, what?! One of Basara's mothers and the previous Demon King's sister?! Also, mothers?!"
Anna couldn't hide her surprise, though her reaction was kinda normal in that situation. Anna's brain was divided, half was processing the fact the Wilbert's sister was one of Basara's mothers, the other half was processing that Basara had more than one mother and trying to figure out how that was possible.
As a side note, Anna was able to arrive at two answers in regards to how Basara could have two mothers. Either Jin didn't mean it biologically and one of them was just a maternal figure, or they really are both biologically Basara's mother and that must have been one hell of a threesome.
Jin and Sapphire waited for Anna to calm down after what she heard. Once she had calmed down, they then explained to her everything about Basara's birth and what happened to his other mother, Raphaeline.
"I see. I'm sorry, for what happened to her."
Anna felt sad after hearing that story. Raphaeline was punished for giving birth to the child of the man she loved, simply because she broke some rule other gods had set up. Until a certain point, this reminded Anna of her lineage's story.
Even though Anna gave her condolences to them, neither Jin nor Sapphire seemed sad.
"It's not like she's dead."
"Eh? But isn't her spirit frozen? Doesn't that basically mean she's dead?"
"Normally, yes. But there is a chance to unfreeze her spirit. But for that, we need your help."
Anna finally understood why Jin said he needed her help, though she still didn't know how she could help. Anyway, after knowing all this, there was no way Anna could refuse.
"Alright, I'll help with whatever I can."
"Thanks. We can talk more on the way. For now, just follow us."
Anna started walking with Jin and Sapphire. Sapphire had been keeping quiet for a while now, but Anna heard her whisper:
"Thanks."
Even if she didn't say it out loud, Sapphire seemed more happy than Jin that Anna decided to help out. In a way, she had always felt responsible for what happened to Raphaeline, so she was the happiest to find out there was a way to help her.
And so, Anna started traveling with Jin and Sapphire for a while.
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Going back to the present time in Chisato's apartment.
"So you remembered all that when you woke up?"
"Yeah. I don't know why, but that was the first thing that came to my mind today. Though I still don't remember anything after that."
Somehow, Anna recovered that memory when she woke up. The contents of the memory itself were already quite something, but they should also try to figure out what's the key to unlocking them.
"I don't think that's the case, but considering past records I'll ask just to be sure. Basara and Anna, you two didn't do anything lewd last night, did you?"
""No, I swear we didn't.""
Basara and Anna said in a single voice. Maria also said "I also don't feel anything from them, so it seems doing lewd stuff wasn't the solution to our problems this time. What a shame."
"But, if nothing else, the contents of those memories are interesting."
"Yeah. So Basara onii-chan's father and mother met with Anna and tried to help Basara onii-chan's other mother."
"It's also nice to know that Sapphire-sama is also doing fine and is accompanying Jin."
Yuki, Kurumi and Zest seemed to be analyzing this little piece of Anna's memories. It was short, but it would be nice to extract as much information from it as possible.
Basara thought back to when Jin had called him recently. At that time, he heard female voices in Jin's side, and it was right before Jin guided Basara to where Anna was lying unconscious, so could the two females be…? There was no way for Basara to know for sure, but he'd like to keep his hopes up.
"… Well, I have a lot of questions, but no one here can answer them. For now, we should focus on doing what we can. Anna, if you don't mind, I'd like to try some more tests on you."
"Sure."
Anna followed Chisato so that they could try to understand a bit more about her current condition and sealed memories. Knowing that Jin and Sapphire were trying to help Raphaeline and that Anna had some relation to all that probably shook Chisato a bit, so she probably wanted to discover everything she could about that.
A few days passed, but Anna didn't get any new memories. There were also no more attacks, so things were finally starting to calm down.
But then, not one, but two new problems came to their doorstep.
