And soon he became annoyed about his hairs, and thought that there is no need to listen to those dûmb people, who would only comment about him but never made progress in training their brain.

Although I found his explanation funny, I accepted it without any further opposition, after all, I knew that he was doing this for me, because he wanted to be capable enough to go with me on missions.

I came to know about this when I accidentally saw his essay about ‘I want to be…’. It really touched my heart that my son was understanding my difficulties, because when he was over 5 years old he expressed to work with me, together.

And even asked me to enroll him in my agency for training. I was surprised at first, but then thought that it is a good thing, at least he can protect himself with this real skill.

But never thought that only after joining formally as an agent for one year, he would die with me.

He was fifteen when he was given his first formal task. And then he would work with me on every mission. It was like we, father and son, got our long-lost freedom to be together and treated every mission as a vacation.

And the day we died, Eden felt that we were followed, so I checked, and confirmed. We were really followed by a car, and to mislead the follower, I didn’t notice the traffic signal and another car crashed into my car.

But I was glad that I pushed my son out, and only heard his resentment filled calls for me, “Mom! MOM? MOM??? Aaaahhhh—”

I thought that would be my last time hearing him calling me mom. Yes, my son calls me mom when he is in a desperate situation, otherwise he calls me daddy.

And I never stopped my son from calling me mom, even when we were in a crowded place. Come on. I gave birth to him, what’s there to be ashamed of! It is not like they are feeding us father and son, so their words are nothing to us.

Then I again heard the clock sound which brought me from my past memories with my son. And then I felt something magical…

Then I felt a different kind of power and strength flowing through my hands, and then it suddenly took a form and let me hear something that I didn’t hear during the time my son was in operation theatre.

I then heard them^[1]doctors sighing and saying-

“Isn’t he the one……!!?”

“Yes! Back then, 16 years ago, it was that male carrier…”

“Back then, he was pregnant with twins, so the head doctor sent one back to their other father…”

“I was an apprentice, and was upset over that decision but now seeing him like this…”

“Yeah, and that other father was quite aggressive when knowing that we changed the surrogate, it was terrifying”

“But now thinking about it, he would have chosen a woman with good genes to have a healthy child…”

“Alas! I was the one who performed surrogacy… That patient came into the wrong room and became pregnant, but we didn’t tell him that he was pregnant with twins, because when we asked whether we can give the child to the other father, he refused immediately.

Mentor and I were in a difficult situation at that time, but in his 3rd month of pregnancy, we came to know that he was pregnant with twins…”

“Now seeing this one like this, I don’t know how the other one is doing?”

I was shocked to hear such a secret…

Like I always thought that I had that one child, my Eden, but now I come to know that I had another child too, and I didn’t even know — How was my other child doing? Was he happy with his other dad? I don’t know anything!!!

But I was relieved knowing that my other child was not with me, or else, I would have lost him too, like I lost my Eden.

But unknowingly, even in my soul form I couldn’t stop my tears from flowing.

Aaaaaaaahhh—

I really, really wanted to know about my other child. I wanted to be with him, like I was with my Eden, after all I gave birth to them with difficulty.

Then I felt an intense amount of power this time, it was like, I am perishing with that power. And at that time, when I was surrounded in darkness, I saw the only light and heard someone asking whether I wanted to go back, or wanted to leave the world. –

And undoubtedly, I chose to go back.

After all, I haven’t met my other child.

Just when I was happy that I can go back, that sound rang again and told me to complete 7 missions from 7 different dimensions and worlds.

Then a portal like thing opened in front of me, and I moved towards that portal without any second thought, and just when I was about to enter that portal, that sound rang again –

“You will receive a surprise, but remember, you would die at the age of 35, just the age of your death in the real world.”

Whatever…!!! I choose to go in!

And when I opened my eyes again, I saw ‘myself’ lying on the bed in a completely different environment and a baby sleeping on my stomach. I then heard a mechanical voice saying –

10 years to live!

And I understood that I have 10 years to live in this world.

I was nothing different from before, just some ancient clothes, and the baby opened his eyes.

I was shocked to see that it was my Eden, who opened his mouth and called me – “MOM!!!??? I am alive???”

I was happy seeing my son, but then saw him annoyed over his clothes and couldn’t help but laugh aloud.

Hahahaha~

Although it was a hearty laughter, a few tears still escaped from the corner of my eyes.