There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 748

Chapter 748: Side Story 4. Endless Journey - 31

Zein used to have his leisure time during the day when he only had the twins. After Lucy came, however, he had to take care of her without any help from a nanny. Only after Lucy managed to sleep alone at night did Zein regain his leisure time, about half an hour before bed, where he just stared at the sea with a drink in hand.

Sometimes, however, his clingy husband would join him.

"Something’s in your mind lately," Bassena put his chin on Zein’s shoulder, tilting his head adorably while circling his arms around the guide’s waist.

One thing a quiet house gave them was definitely more intimate times; more cuddles and just spending time with just the two of them. Although...rather than the twins’ absence, most of it was because Lucy no longer needed constant supervision, so Zein didn’t have to be around her all the time like before.

"Were you thinking about our boys?" the esper asked again, kissing the fair neck softly.

"That’s you," Zein chuckled, leaning back to the warm chest behind him. "I’m thinking about Lucy."

"Oh?" Bassena pulled back, turning his head in the direction of their daughter’s bedroom, where Lucy was sleeping under the watchful eyes of his children of darkness. "Why? What’s wrong? She looks fine."

"She is fine," Zein nodded. He sipped on the warm cocoa and let the sweet liquid caress his system. "She just...had been dreaming about her past life."

"What?" Bassena widened his eyes. "You mean...as Setnath?"

Zein shook his head and turned around so he could face his esper. "As Lucre, to be exact--at least so far. Although..." he frowned slightly. "I’m not sure how far the dream will continue."

Zein proceeded to tell Bassena about the dreams that Lucy said she had. Strange dreams, she called them. She usually forgot the dream right away, but recalled them when she saw something similar.

"And she wasn’t looking at it from a third point of view, but as the one who fought?" Bassena stroked his chin.

"Yep," Zein nodded. "Said there were swords, spears, and arrows--maybe more, but she couldn’t name them yet."

"Hmm..."

"Remember what the original name of the organization that House Ishtera made?"

Bassena raised his brow. "The Templars of Arms Master?"

Zein nodded. "Arms Master is Setnath’s moniker," he said. "That’s because as Lucre, he used all kinds of weapons to fight, instead of sticking into one."

"Oh...like Ashur?"

"Mm," Zein tapped on his mug again. "He also crafted his own weapons, if I recall correctly. When he achieved godhood, his ability was translated to his moniker."

"I see...so it really is him," Bassena nodded. He observed his husband’s face and asked carefully. "What...what do you think it means? Her dreaming about it, I mean..."

Zein turned around again, leaning on the railing and cast his gaze at the sparkling sea. "Bas...what if she remembers her past life?" he asked instead. "What if, someday, she woke up with the memory of Lucre or Setnath?"

Bassena held the hands holding the mug; Zein didn’t even realize he was trembling. Enveloping his worried husband in his warmth, he kissed the guide’s temple. "You know...that’s what I had always been worried about in the past."

"Ah..." Zein blinked. Yeah; originally, he was supposed to be the vessel for Setnath’s rebirth.

"And I can’t say I’m not worried about our daughter, but..." Bassena smiled, the stretched lips could be felt against the guide’s skin. "The soul itself had been Lucre from the start, and yet...she’s still our daughter, isn’t she?"

"Of course, but..."

"Even if she changes later because of her past life, the life she has as Lucy, as our daughter, is not false either," Bassena said. "Right?"

"Yeah," Zein exhaled softly, and as he looked back, a smile gradually appeared on his lips. "Yeah, she’s still our daughter no matter what." _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

Bassena caught the smiling lips with his own, tightening his hold around the guide. Now that he had done his role as the reassuring husband, he could return to be Zein’s whiny baby. "Well, I’m saying all this, but I don’t know how I would react if it’s really happening, so..."

Zein laughed and ruffled the platinum hair on his shoulder. "You mean like how you didn’t like being called ’Baba’ but got sad when they stopped using it?"

"Ugh..."

"Lucy will stop calling you Baba soon."

"Noo!"

Zein laughed and kissed the esper back to their bedroom, hoping that their daughter wouldn’t be awake from the noises. Well...hoping that she didn’t have those strange dreams too much.

At least, the toddler Lucy only thought it was a dream. She couldn’t remember most of her dreams much, and everything just seemed exciting for her. The more she grew up, however, the more he could think deeply about those frequent dreams.

"Papa...Lu thinks it’s not just a dream," the girl muttered one day while feeding the fish in their giant aquarium with his father.

The seven-year-old had shifted from baby talk and Bassena’s nightmare of not being called ’Baba’ cutely had arrived. But she still called Zein ’Papa’, unlike the twins who called him ’Father’.

Maybe because she wanted to stay cute.

Zein glanced at his slightly frowning daughter before wiping his hands and stepping back from the fish tank. "The one where you fight monsters?"

"Yeah..."

Taking a deep breath without his daughter’s noticing, Zein asked. "Why do you think so?"

Lucy thought about it while tapping on the fish tank’s surface, watching the fish come to her as if they were being summoned. "It’s...too clear," she said. "And it always continues, like...hmm...like movies! Or, or--series!"

"Like the animation show you always watch with Nari?" Zein asked while walking to the mini drink bar on the corner--although there was no alcoholic drink there.

"Yes! Hehe..."

Zein poured an apple juice for himself to calm his rising heart, watching his daughter playing with the fish. They always followed her around, just like they always followed Zein in the past, and Lucy loved it so much. She would jump left to right to see them moving fast, and laughing cheerfully at all the bubbles that those movements created.

And she loved, loved it when her parents finally allowed her to ride the sea serpent around. When Auntie Rina promised her a diving adventure once she was older, Lucy had spent days dreaming about swimming in the deep sea.

Zein had asked Frejya in the past, but it didn’t seem like Lucre or Setnath had anything special with water, which means this excitement about water was all Zein’s. And it had been inherited by his daughter.