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"Mommy, everyone says Dad doesn't like you anymore, that Dad deliberately killed you. I'm about to become an orphan no one wants. I argued with them, saying Dad isn't like that, but they laughed at me. I want to ask Dad, but I'm afraid, I don't dare to cry in front of him. Mommy, Mommy, I miss you so much."
The maid put down her broom and, more adeptly than before, hugged the little girl with swollen eyes into her arms.
"Baby, Mom fought to protect the base, to protect everyone from the miasma monsters, to protect the children within my base. Everything was my own choice."
The maid's words made Zera stop sobbing. She peeked out her head and asked with a whimper, "So Mommy, you are a hero, right?"
