Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 515: Family Secret

"Don't fucking tell me what to do!" Zach broke out of his mother's domination aura with a burst of world essence energy and stood back up, surprising them all, especially Calserra and Nymur.

"You lost the right to do that the moment you abandoned me!"

"And if you don't want me to call you disgusting, then you shouldn't have committed disgusting acts! The people of the Duchy looked to all of you for protection. You all should have been the last to agree to sacrifice them! What the fuck is wrong with all of you?!"

To this moment, Zach still didn't understand how his parents and siblings could ever have gone along with this plan.

He knew his parents weren't as kind to everyone as they were to him. They weren't perfect parents. But no parents were. Still, they were good people.

Zach had grown up believing that. He had grown up believing that his parents and siblings didn't intentionally neglect him when he was young. They were just busy caring for the people of the Duchy and taking care of their responsibilities.

But now, his image of his family had crashed into the ground.

If they could throw the Duchy into the flames of Hell just to kill an overgrown snake, why couldn't they look away from it for a few hours to at least eat dinner with him?!

Zach could see his family members exchange looks, none of them bothering with excuses or phony justifications.

"Dad, I think we should tell him."

"Tell me what? Don't tell me you've managed to sneak away the people and hide them in the Labyrinth or something."

"..."

"Please tell me you did that." Zach changed his mind. If that were the case, he would have no reason to detest them.

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"...No," Nymur eventually said, his head hanging low.

"That's not it. As much as I would have liked that, something like that wouldn't have been possible. If we had tried anything like that, there's no telling what the Hydra would have done to both the Steppes and the Empire."

"...You didn't even try?" Zach asked with belated realization. "You didn't even try to save our people," he said in disbelief.

"Hah." He laughed emptily.

"This was the only way!" Nymur said, slamming his palm against the table.

"Don't give me that!" Zach shouted back. "How can you know when you didn't look for another?!"

"Looking for something that doesn't exist is meaningless and impossible!" Nymur refused to give in. The moment he did, he would have accepted that he had made the wrong choice.

"'Impossible'?!" Zach questioned. There was no such thing as impossible. But he wasn't going to explain that to Nymur. Instead…

"You're a disgrace to the Evandiel name," Zach said with all the disgust he felt.

This was worse than he had expected. However, he did not get the reaction he expected. All of them grit their teeth and glared at Zach.

"We are doing this exactly because of the Evandiel name," Nymur said in a low voice.

"Since when was the name Evandiel synonymous to 'disgusting traitor'?" Zach asked mockingly.

"At this point, is there a need to hide it anymore?" Lexi asked, earning various looks from the others, including a glare from Nymur.

"The moment we tell him, he will never be able to let it go."

"What does it matter? Won't everything be over when the Hydra is dead? Besides, does it look like he will ever let go now?" Stubbornness wasn't a trait that just Nymur and Zach shared. Lexi had also inherited it.

Nymur sighed. He looked up from the table and straight at Zach. For several long moments, he just stared at Zach, thinking about whether to include him in their secret or not.

Unfortunately, it seemed Lexi was right.

Zach was also a hair away from blowing up again. If Nymur didn't tell him, there was no telling what Zach was going to do or when they would see him again.

After another deep and heavy sigh, Nymur opened his mouth to talk.

"Our family…It's older than the Empire. A lot older. It's as old as the Children of the Hydra, in fact."

Together with everything else he knew and what had already been said, Zach understood a part of it almost instantly.

They had said that this, sacrificing innocent lives to kill the Hydra, was to honor their name. Their reddish-orange hair. The affinity for fire and magic in their bloodline. Their innately powerful physiques. Their ferocity and occasional bloodthirst.

"We're…the Hydra's Children?" he asked in utter disbelief. He could not believe it.

Nymur nodded. He wasn't surprised that Zach already knew about the children. And he could only be proud that Zach figured it out that quickly.

"To be exact, we're descendants of the Second Child. Usually, the Children are immortal but can't reproduce. But he gave up his immortality to sire a line of heirs to grow a force that could hold back the other Children and the Hydra itself," Nymur explained.

Zach frowned as he tried to wrap his head around it.

He didn't know that much about the Children. He hadn't known about their supposed immortality or their infertility. But he knew all of them seemed innately malicious and bloodthirsty.

They were different to the point where Zach looked at them like humanoid monsters with the ability to talk. They were similar to how several of the Named underworlders had been, regardless of Ugor's control of them.

His impression of them had hit rock bottom after Nora's death. They were less than monsters. They were pests who deserved extermination, and Zach was planning on bringing it to them.

But now, this big family secret that his family had gone to extreme lengths to hide from him was that he was the same as them. His mind couldn't—wouldn't straighten it out. He didn't want to accept it.

There were many things about it that he couldn't accept. One of those things was why they even had to hide it from him. He wasn't sure if anything would have changed if he had known about it beforehand. He would have still wanted the Child that the Nilma tribe caught dead. He still would have chased the other Child, and he still would have killed the one he killed.

But maybe if he knew about it beforehand, he could have done something about them getting involved in the war—

"You're telling me I'm the same as the fucker that killed Nora?!"

"...What?" Victoria could no longer stay silent in the corner of the tent.