Luka Pov
"Urghh... What happened?" Luka said as he woke up. As he pushed himself up, he then looked around him and found himself laying on his bed. Suddenly he remembered about the burglar that was in his room, the angel with the face of his mother.
"Was I dreaming...?" Luka asked himself, still slightly dazed from all the things that happened to him today. "Was that woman really my mother?"
"Of course I am!"
"Wah!"
Upon being spooked by sudden voice of a cheerful girl, Luka quickly got off his bed and turned towards the door of the room which was the direction where the voice came from.
Standing there was the same women that Luka remember seeing before fainting, the same ribbons that covered her body, the same pair of fluffy white wing that are bigger than her body, but most importantly her face... which was completely identical to his mother.
Although there are some differences sure, she looked a lot younger than what Luka remembers, but the face shape and hairstyles were so similar Luka cannot differentiate her and his mother in his memory.
However, there was one thing Luka that noticed that was different from his memory, her eyes. In his memory, his mother's eyes were always filled with kindness and patience towards everything.
This angel on the other hand, her eyes might look like the same beautiful blue eyes her mother had, but Luka can't see any kindness nor patience in them, instead it looked empty, almost like she couldn't be concern with anything.
"Luka! Stop staring at mama and come give me a hug! I don't want hug you again because I might hug you till you pass out again..." The angel suddenly broke Luka out of his thoughts.
"Umm... Are you really my mother?" Luka asked while scratching his head. After all, despite the resemblance Luka was still very sure his mother wasn't an angel.
"Well obviously! Are you saying that you forgot how mama looked!" the angel then pushed her face directly in front of Luka face.
"Wa-wait! Too close!" Luka quickly pushes her back getting some distance, but that only made the angel pout.
"Luka meanie! I didn't teach you to push your mom away like that!"
"I-I am sorry! But I just can't believe you that are my mom! After all she died a long time ago"
The angel then stopped pouting and went back to her normal smiling face.
"It's ok, mama did teach you to not talk to people you don't trust." the angel then walked towards Luka's bed and sat down on the side of it while using her slender hands to repeatedly smack the space next to her, seemingly to urge him to join her.
Luka decided to just listen to her instruction and just sat next to her as she wanted. The angel then asked Luka "Why don't you believe that I am your mama?" "Well... My mother was a human... so there is no way you are my mom since you are an angel." Luka tried to explain while trying to not make the angel get mad again.
"Oh that, I remember now..." the angel then covered her eyes while sighing, she then started explain "Luka, mama was hiding the fact that I am was an angel the entire time."
"...Huh?"
"And also, you are a half angel!"
"I am a WHAT!?" A sudden bombshell suddenly got dropped.
"But that's all you really need to know for now! So can you believe that I am your mother now?" the angel then smiled at Luka while her hands spread wide open as if preparing for a hug.
Meanwhile Luka's brain was refusing to comprehend that the fact that her mom was an angel. Sure, Luka knows that his mother was definitely one of the nicest people in the world, however if she was an angel, he would have known!
"Wait! Even if she is indeed an angel, there is no way I wouldn't have known!"
"Well... I hide it quite well you know..."
"A-and there is also the fact that she died years ago! How can you explain that!"
"Well... Mama's not too sure about this one either... I kind of just woke up "
"Lastly! Do you even have any prove of what you are saying!"
"Hmm..." Upon being asked for evidence, the angel started holding her chin and look thoughtful for a second, before her expression immediately brighten up.
She then quickly pulled out the ring that Luka was wearing on his hand.
"Wait! Hey! That's the ring that my mother gave me, she told me to never remove it! Now I am definitely sure that you aren't her!" Luka exclaimed after his ring was stolen.
However, despite the agitated Luka, the angel was still calm. She then pointed towards the back of Luka and said "Look at your back"
"Huh?"
As Luka turned around and looked at his back, he saw a wing made of light floating directly above his skin.
"What in the!?" Luka then quickly jump off his bed, trying to escape from his newfound wing, but instead of staying on the bed it flew along with him and is now on his back again.
Luka then keep trying to shake and turn his body while trying to grab the wing and get it off, but for some reason his hands keep on phasing through it.
While Luka was messing around with his wings, the angel was looking amusingly over at how Luka was struggling, but then she held out the ring.
"This ring is capable of sealing anything into a human form, mama wore this to hide, mama also told you to wear it so that you won't show any of your angel feature as you grew up."
Luka upon hearing this can only stop his attempts at trying to get the wing away and instead stare at the angel. The angel then quickly put the ring back on Luka before continuing, and now she starts sharing all her memories of Luka. Luka stands there silently listening to what the angel is saying, while his wing of light disappeared too
However, before she even finished half of the memories, Luka suddenly tackles the angel on to the bed and hugging her.
"MOM!" Luka shouts into the bed as he cried.
"Yes Luka, Mama is home!" Lucifina returns the hug, this time controlling her strength as she tries not to once again suffocate her son.
…
It wasn't until a while of crying and hugging that Luka finally broke the hug. Luka then asked Lucifina how she is even alive right now.
"Well, I don't really know... Mama woke up near the graveyard today with her sword next to her, she really doesn't know." Lucifina shrugged
"Could it that be the reason why the graveyard exploded today was because of..."
"But anyways! That enough about me!" Lucifina exclaimed "Mama wants to hear about you too! What have you been doing after mama have left!"
Luka then begin to explain about his life, about aunt betty, about all the sword skill that he learned and finally about his dream of coexistence with monster and how he is supposed to go on an adventure today. He then finally asked.
"Mom, do you support my dream?"
After asking that question, Luka quickly started worrying, it was one thing if he had a normal human mom, but it was another when his mom is an angel. Afterall, angels are the servants of Ilias and the defender of humanity, naturally they would all hates monsters.
"Hmm... I don't really care about monsters that much, but since you are my son... Then mama is gonna support your dream with everything she has!" Lucifina exclaimed.
Luka smiled at that; he was afraid that his mother would have rejected his dream due to her being an angel.
"But still! Going on such a journey is a very dangerous activity! Mama must make sure you are always protected! So, mama is going to come with you as well!"
"Wah! B-But mom, parent cannot just follow their children to adventure! It's too dangerous!"
"Don't worry Luka! Mama is very strong!"
"Well... I suppose you are an angel but..."
Luka originally thought that that he would have had a simple and exciting adventure where he would achieve his dreams by himself and perhaps comrades that he finds on his journey, but if his mom joins him in his adventure, it will just seem like they are on a family trip. Which now that he thinks about it, he doesn't really mind.
"Okay fine, we can go together."
"Yay!" Lucifina immediately flew up to the ceiling before landing back on to the floor and running out of the room. However, before she managed set foot outside the door, Luka shouted "Wait! Mom don't run out of the house with just ribbons! It's too indecent! At least wear some clothes first!"
It would definitely give Luka a bad image if an almost naked girl covered only in ribbons ran out of Luka's house. Surprising, Lucifina did stopped, however when she turned back and looked at Luka she asked
"Eh? But Luka you have been wearing your boxer since you woke up just now, Mama thought that you were fine with people not wearing clothes?"
"Eh"
Luka then looked down... He was indeed only wearing his boxers.
"WAH!? Where did my clothes go!" Luka loudly asked Lucifina.
"Oh! When you first fainted, I saw that your clothes were covered with slime, so mama took them off before putting you to bed!"
"Oh right, I fought a slimed today... *sigh* at least I am wearing my boxers..." Luka sighed, disappointed and embarrassed at himself at the fact that he didn't even realise he was basically naked the entire time. Still, he is relieved that his boxer, the last bit of human decency, was still on him.
"Oh, your boxers? Since we are in your room, mama found a new one and changed it for you too!" Lucifina said with a smile.
Luka's head overheats as his face turn red while the last bit of dignity that he thought he had was gone.
"Mom! I am an adult now! You can't just change my boxers for me anymore!" Luka complained at his mom while still trying to cool his head down.
"Oh! Come on Luka! It's not like mama had never seen your little one before! But she must say it certainly does look bigger than she remembers."
And with that any effort that Luka had put into trying to calm himself has gone out of the window. The poor boy overheated from embarrassment and once again fainted onto the hard cold floor.
"Luka? Hey Luka wake up! Seriously... is your body really this weak... mama is gonna be worried if you went adventuring like that..."
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After Luka waked up, he and Lucifina quickly gathered the materials needed for travelling and Luka managed to convince Lucifina to not wear her ribbon outfit and instead a normal dress but to compromise he agreed that she would only wear the dress in cities and settlements and be allowed to go back to her ribbon form when they are out on the roads.
Although Luka blushed at the thought that his mother is going to be wearing such little clothing while traveling with him, he thought to himself maybe the ribbons are important to her and thus she wants to keep wearing them, as such he decided he would just have to deal with it, he wants to make his mom happy after all.
After they got everything, they then decided that Luka would have to say goodbye to the villagers. So, they quickly done that, after which they left the village.
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Once they left the village, they started walking on the road to Iliasburg. Except, Lucifina who had went back to her angel form and is floating instead.
"I still couldn't believe that I wasn't baptised... Was I not faithful enough?" Luka asked dejectedly.
"Don't be so upset Luka, baptisms for humans doesn't really do anything besides making your semen taste and smell disgusting towards monsters, which would not be helpful for your goal of achieving coexistence right?" Lucifina flew besides Luka and pats his head while she comforts him.
"Huh, baptism makes my semen taste bad?"
"Yeah, it's a ritual Ilias created from trying to protect humans by simply making humans undesirable to monsters."
"I-I see but how would yo... that right! You're an angel, it would make sense for you to know Ilias herself."
"Yep! Mama is also very strong angel too! So nothing is gonna hurt you under my watch!" Lucifina than flied in front of Luka before crossing her arms and confidently smiling while her eyes are close.
"I see..."
Suddenly in front of the duo, a Slug Girl appeared.
"A human traveller and a... harpy with hands? Doesn't matter, the boy looks delicious."
The slug doesn't seem to know what an angel is or looked like.
"Oh my! Luka look, your first enemy! Now show mama how you slice her up!"
"Huh? You want me to fight her? Aren't you going to at least help me?"
"Well... Mama wants to see you fight and also a monster this weak wouldn't be a fight for me. But don't worry, mama will save you if anything goes wrong."
"I guess I can fight it alone..." Luka says as he approaches the slug while drawing his sword.
"Oh my, is your girlfriend offering you to me?" The slug asked, surprised at how Lucifina was just floating at the back and observing the fight.
"She's not my girlfriend!" Luka quickly denies the accusation with a blush. "But still, can you just let us pass? I don't really want to hurt people..."
"No way am I letting a free meal such as yourself pass, I haven't had semen in weeks."
"Urg, looks like I have to fight my second monster here..."
The fight started with Luka trying to cut the slug girl only to find that his sword was not sharp enough to pierce through the thick and elastic mucus.
"What? My attacks can't go through"
"You can't cut me with such a weak attack" The slug girl then threw some of her mucus onto Luka.
Luka then tried some of his other techniques and attempted to cut the slug girl, such as stabbing instead of slashing and multiple slashes at one spot. However, none of his attack was hurting and as such the slug girl manage to catch Luka off guard and manage to tackle him on to the ground.
"Crap! I need to quickly get out!" Luka thought to himself as he tries to get out of the slug girls old.
"Hehe, these mucus feels really good once I start move, so get ready to enjoy my sticky heaven." the slug girl says as she starts moving her body.
"Wa-wait! I am no-ahh." Luka tries to resist but moaned out of shock.
As Luka seem to be losing the fight, Lucifina decide that she had seen enough. She flew down near the two, Angel Halo in hand.
"Stop bullying my son!" She shouts as she smacks the flats of her sword at the slug girl, launching her off of Luka. Before flying up into the air while slowly but surely start gathering energy.
"I am the child of dawn, the star thrown to the Earth shall obtain victory!" Lucifina then chanted those words. It didn't take long for a massive comet to be send from the sky directly flying towards the slug girl that was now shivering in fear as what seems be her demise.
The comet landed on her and exploded into a massive inferno before the flames flickered out revealing a crater with a slug in the middle of it.
"Hah... Hah... Mom..." Luka breathed heavily.
"Sorry Luka, Mama didn't meant to let you be bullied like that, though she did not expect your horrible sword techniques..." Lucifina tried to comfort Luka by hugging him, but however, Luka started tearing up and shouted "Mom! How could you just kill her like that! I want a world of coexistence with the monsters, I don't want to kill them or even hurt them!"
"Oh, she isn't dead."
"Huh?"
Luka was doubtful at what Lucifina said but he was willing to listen. Lucifina then flew over to the crater and picked up a small slug before flying back.
"Here, this was the slug girl that I just defeated."
"Huh? But this is just a regular slug?" Luka asked.
"This is indeed the slug girl I just killed, the reason she's in this form is because of my sword, Angel Halo" Lucifina explains as she points to her grotesque sword.
"Eww mom, why does it look so disturbing?" Luka asked well making a disturbed face.
"Oh, that probably because I made it with 666 souls of angels."
"You what?!" Luka asked in horror.
"Don't worry about it, but basically this sword is capable of stealing energy of the things its user cuts or attacks while equipping it. And once a monster runs out of energy, they will get sealed into a harmless form, like this slug girl over here."
"But would they turn back?" Luka asked but still seemed concern about the angel souls part.
"Don't worry, they will return to their true from when another monster shares energy with them or when they regenerate themselves after a while."
"If that's the case I guess its okay then..." Luka reluctantly accept that his mother didn't just kill the slug girl.
"In any case, Luka it seems that mama would need to teach you some sword techniques, because your swordsmanship is horrendous" Said Lucifina.
"Huh, but I learn from all sorts of warriors in Ilias village, there's no way it's that bad!" Luka defended.
"Luka the people you learn from are probably all third rates, if you really did learn from those people then they must be all third rates. Anyways the sun is about to set, let's set up camp here and I can teach you some of mama's awesome skills" Lucifina said as she started flying around to look for a good camping ground.
"Fine..." Luka said still dejected by the fact that all these years of training he did was for nothing.
…
After finding an open area to set up camp, Lucifina began to her training with Luka.
"Ok Luka, since you are my child, mama thinks you should be able to use angel techniques. Therefore, mama will first teach you the basic angel technique, angel dance" Lucifina then proceed to demonstrate through destroying a nearby tree in three cuts.
"Wow! That skill is really powerful! Will I be able to do that too after I learn it?" Luka asked with anticipation.
"Yes! you can definitely do something like this after you train for a while, after all you are mama's child! Something like this would be a piece of cake for you to do." Lucifina explained.
After which Lucifina thought Luka the basics of angel dance and left him to do some practicing. Although she was a skilled warrior however, she wasn't that good of a teacher. As such her instructions are quite vague and hard to understand but after a while, Luka manage to figure out how to use the skill himself.
After practicing his newfound skill for an hour, Luka had to stop because Lucifina got hungry and urged him to start cooking dinner. Since Luka remembered that his mom gets quite grumpy when she's hungry back when she was still alive, Luka quickly dropped his training and begin cooking her meal.
"Luka this taste delicious! Mama is proud of you! Have your cooking gotten even better after I left?" Lucifina asked as she ate her food happily.
"Really? I thought it was average... But I did have to cook more after your left, so I guess I did improve from back when you were alive." Luka answered as he begins to think back to his childhood days. Days where his mother would teach him how to cook and he would suck at it at first, but gradually getting better.
"Yep definitely. Infact I would say you cook better than some of the chef in heaven!"
"Wah!? No way" Luka exclaimed.
After dinner both Luka and Lucifina went into a tent to sleep, originally Luka would have been fine just sleeping in a sleeping bag, however Lucifina insisted that she wanted to sleep with Luka and therefore they are now sharing the same blanket as Lucifina clings tightly to Luka. Luka was obviously embarrassed, but he was also happy because sleeping with his mom was something he thought he would never be able to do again, as such he now cherishes all these moments.
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Extra
Ilias had a really bad day. Originally, she would of baptise her favourite grandson and guided him into becoming an ideal hero, and not with the normal baptism either, but with the one that truly grants him the power of a hero, though that was interrupted when a certain monster lord decided to ambush her and wounded her. Of course, since Ilias was the perfect goddess, she couldn't appear in any state that is not perfect, especially Infront of Luka. As such she decided that she would not show up for the baptism, it wasn't that much of a problem anyways, since she can always give Luka this baptism another time. Perhaps when he visits San illia.
Finally, she reached back into her room in heaven, usually she would spend her time in her throne room acting all majestic for the angels to admire. But she was simply too tired right now and she had something more important to do. Ilias quickly crashed onto a couch with a small table next to it, she then opened a portal and grabbed a bag of popcorn and a bottle of cola. Directly Infront of her was a mirror which showed the reflection of her.
"Let's see what Luka is up to." Ilias said as she grabbed a handful of popcorn and stuffed it into her mouth before casting a spell that causes the reflection of the mirror to change. Heaven's scrying spell, a spell that allows Ilias to see basically anywhere in the world. Most of the time Ilias use this spell to spy on Luka though.
"He should be preparing himself for his adventure now..." Ilias thought to herself as she grabbed the bottle of cola and begins drinking it. As the blurry reflection of the mirror started to become more and more clean, she saw Luka sneaking around outside his room looking as if he was about to slam it open. "Did someone break into Luka's house? Whoever this person is, I am going to curse him for daring to sneak into my grandson's house." Then Luka slammed open the door only to reveal the person inside the room was an angel, but not just any angel, those blue eyes can only belong to one person.
"PFFFTT!" Upon seeing the sight of Lucifina Ilias immediately choke on her drinks and started coughing loudly, the shock also caused her to cancel her spell, causing the mirror to go back into showing her reflection. While she was coughing, she knocked over the bucket of popcorn at her side and her cola as well causing it to pour over her clothes and all over the floor.
"What in the hell was that! Lucifina? There's no way... She's dead! She can't be alive... There's no way I would not have detected her if she was! Was I hallucinating?" Ilias mumbles to herself as she tries to get over the shock of seeing Lucifina alive and well. "No... there's no way she is alive, still I should quickly check up on Luka, just because she might not be Lucifina, having an unknown angel at Luka's house might be dangerous. Especially if it is a fallen angel." Ilias quickly reactivated the spell and soon the mirror begin changing again.
When the blurry mirror begins to clear up, it showed Ilias the sight of a mostly naked Luka hugging a mostly naked Lucifina on Luka's bed. This sight caused Ilias brain to short circuit. Not only because she had confirmed that the angel was indeed Lucifina, but also her grandson seems to be engaging on inappropriate activities with her daughter.
"Lucifina and Luka i-is... they... huh?" It seemed like that was too much for Ilias to process, as such she promptly fainted.
After a short while, the door to Ilias room opened and Eden peaked her head into Ilias room, "My goddess I heard banging, is everything alright?" She then saw a shattered bottle and popcorns all over the floor with Ilias unconscious In the middle of all the mess. "Oh, you got drunk again. In that case, please excuse me." She said as she closed the door.
Apparently, this was not the first time she fainted in her room. It was quite often for the goddess to get drunk and sleep on the floor of her room instead of the bed. The first few times Eden waked her up from sleeping on the floor, she had to deal with a very easily irritated goddess that was having a hangover. As such she learned to just let the goddess sleep on the floor.
