Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 511: Good Daughter

Maura shrugged. She had already said more than she felt obligated to say. She might have taken a light fancy to Zach's physique and potential, but she wasn't going to give him the guidance and comfort he needed or whatever it was he was asking for.

Zach sighed.

No matter what he said, it wasn't like Maura was going to change reality or the past.

"I'll just say that if you wanted the Hydra out of its seal, you could have always broken it yourself instead of helping the Hydra get stronger." He eventually said. There was no need to get worked up about something he couldn't change right now. But he was going to get the last word.

"..."

"Oh, don't tell me you didn't think of that?"

"The seal was made by Isuls, the god of nature," Maura said as if to explain.

"So, you can't handle the seal, but you can handle the Hydra, who can break the seal?" Zach asked.

"...It's easier for the Hydra to break the seal. It's been wearing it down for millennia."

Zach raised his hands. He wasn't going to continue arguing.

"Is that all, then?" He asked instead. Had Maura told them everything they needed and wanted to know?

"Yeah, I don't feel like talking to you anymore," Maura said, resting her forehead in her hand and waving away Zach before pointing at Visla.

"But you…Visla, didn't I tell you to stay out of trouble?"

"Y-you did." Visla was startled to suddenly be talked to by Maura but tried to stay calm. Hopefully, Zach wouldn't throw her to the wolves.

"Tell me, weak child of mine, did the meaning of staying out of trouble change since the last time I used the phrase?" Maura asked.

"I-I don't know when you used it the last—"

"Do you think that's what I wanted to hear?"

"N-No."

"No? Then what do you think I wanted to hear?"

Visla despaired. It felt like whatever she said, it was the opposite of what Maura wanted.

"I'm sorry?" She said tentatively. An apology could never be wrong.

"No." Maura sighed.

"You had the balls to go against my orders, and you had the balls to crawl this deep into the Labyrinth. You might as well have to balls to stand up straight, look me in the eyes, and tell me to fuck off." Maura looked straight at Visla.

Visla felt the pressure of her mother's gaze and, for the first time during their conversation, looked up from the ground. She glanced at her mother.

"I-Is that what you want me to say?" She asked.

"No, of course not. I want you to tell me that you're going to be returning to the surface and then finding a place to hide, a place where the Hydra will never find you if we fail to kill it." Maura sighed.

"But I also know that if my parents had told me to do something like that, I would have told them to fuck off and proceeded deeper into the Labyrinth, so, I can't blame you for doing the same.

"All I want, Visla, is for you to be safe. But you don't always get what you want. So, continue clinging to Zacharia and find a place to look as we fight the Hydra. That's where I draw the line. Try to join the fight or anything, and I'll pack you into Nom's stomach and send you to the surface." Maura finished with a threat. She couldn't be seen as a softie and a loving mother, after all.

"Uhh…" Visla wasn't sure what to say. Maura's words were more than a little confusing to her. Zach tapped her shoulder with his knuckles.

"Just go hug your mom, coward." When Visla glanced at him uncertainly, he pushed her forward, making her stumble into Maura's embrace.

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"I'll wait outside." Zach left with his familiars to let the two catch up in peace. He also needed a moment for himself to think about what Maura had just revealed to him.

A Hydra. People dying to free that Hydra. People planning to kill that Hydra, his family included.

It was a mess.

But it was just the right kind of mess. It would do a better job distracting him than any pleasures of the flesh.

Zach started thinking about what he had on hand and what he could.

The Hydra was a monster that not even Maura was confident she could kill, and that was when she was working with the other tribe Chiefs and possibly the Evandiel family. That was the best possible scenario.

The Arlecchs were sketchy, and there was no way Zach could forget about the Children.

Maura, the other chiefs, and Zach's parents were strong. He did not know exactly how strong, but he probably didn't stand a chance if he were alone. With all of his familiars, he might have a chance against one of them.

He wouldn't be too much of a deadweight in the battle against the Hydra, at least.

But he wasn't sure it would be the best use of his abilities and familiars. He also wasn't sure if he wanted to cooperate with everyone else.

His family had left him behind, and the chiefs were nasty bastards who sacrificed the Empire's and their own people just because they weren't confident of breaking the Hydra's seal on their own.

Zach sighed and looked toward the sky. Snow and ice trapped in eternal wind blocked it, but it was almost better than the view in Haven.

It would be reassuring to have Ra by his side for this, but that wasn't happening. She wasn't sure if her incorporeal essence would last outside Haven. It would be great if it could, though.

He could just invite her out and sic her on anyone and anything causing him dissatisfaction. Boom, problem solved.

Zach glanced at Nom, who joined him outside the cave. Nom offered him a skewer of meat. Zach shook his head, refusing the offer.

"I don't eat."