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The Birth of Milla “Maxwell” #9

Chapter Nine

Inside the building, Ellen caught up with Derrick and took him to an empty room to interrogate him about the village. However, Derrick's words did nothing to reassure her.

“Ellen, this is none of your business. Go home now!”

“Derrick, why…? You don't have to say it like that…”

Derrick hesitated whether to tell her the truth. After coming to Rieze Maxia, Derrick met Ellen as he was going around various places to treat people. In the current Rieze Maxia, there was a serious shortage of doctors in remote regions away from big cities. When he learned that, as a doctor, Derrick could not turn his back to people in need and started volunteering here and there. That is how he learned that Rieze Maxians knew nothing about Elympios, and even had absolutely no idea that there was a whole world outside of Rieze Maxia.

Around that time, some of Derrick’s fellow Elympions, unable to mix well with Rieze Maxians, started acting out. At first, he sympathized with them, but as their violent behavior escalated, Derrick became disgusted with them. That was one of the reasons he started volunteering his medical expertise. However, he could not abandon his fellows either, and did not stop researching a way to get them back home.

Then one day, he decided to start dating Ellen. However, if he told her the truth about his circumstances, she would undoubtedly want to help him. But that meant binding her to the rules of the village, and she could be in danger. That is why he kept coming back to the village alone, without telling her.

“That’s not what I meant… Ellen, I’m sorry.” Derrick hugged her. He loved her and their son from the bottom of his heart. “Ellen, please don’t ask... There are things I cannot say…”

He remembered the whispers he heard the other night. “We could just use Rieze Maxians…” Derrick had always felt that, under his clever façade, Gilland was a young man who hid a burning flame of ambition within him, and that that flame was going to explode one day. He had the impression that once Gilland bared his fangs, he would become uncontrollable. Derrick wouldn’t have minded that much in the past, before he got married and started a family. He was confident he could have handled him. But now that he had a wife and a son to protect, Derrick believed he should avoid anything that could put them at risk. Besides, he could not forget how Elympios had a plan to invade Rieze Maxia to capture its spirits. Those thoughts made Derrick hug Ellen more tightly. He swore once more to protect the woman in his arms.

“I won’t make you anxious again. I will cut ties with the people here. You don’t have to worry anymore.”

“Derrick…” Ellen was glad that her usually taciturn husband expressed himself like this, and she felt love radiating from him. She responded by hugging him back strongly.

“To leave this place, there is one thing I must do. I need to dispose of my records and my notes in the lab.”

“You don’t have to do that. Let’s just go back home.”

“No, you don’t understand. If I leave a trace, someone will come looking for me. I need to destroy my research.”

The stranded Elympions had built an idyllic society where everyone helped each other, but on the flip side, perhaps as a result of prioritizing the group over the individual, over the past six years, they had been pushing out those considered traitors, as well as older or weaker people who could not contribute to production or had no value in their little society. In the worst cases, they even carried out purges. Derrick wanted to avoid scaring Ellen, so he kept this secret from her.

“Ellen, wait for me in the village. It’ll only take me a couple hours.”

From his words, Ellen knew that he was about to do something dangerous. At the thought of something happening to him, she felt her heart breaking with worry. “Please be really careful. Take care.”

When Derrick smiled, Ellen kissed him softly. At that moment, the door opened with a bang, and they jerked away from each other.

“Ah, sorry… I see you’re busy.” The man who had interrupted them was the one whom Ellen had entrusted her baby to at the entrance. “Well… Something happened and…”

Ellen immediately knew something had happened to her son. Before the man could explain anything, she said, “Something happened to him, didn’t it?”

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The Birth of Milla “Maxwell” #3

CW: alcohol, underage drinking

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Chapter Three

Six years ago, the E.S.S. Zenethra was brought into the world called Rieze Maxia by a giant tsunami. Rieze Maxia was a world whose civilization was built around the balance between humans and spirits.

Rieze Maxians possessed an organ in the brain called “mana lobe,” which enabled them to emit “mana,” the energy spirits were made of. By tethering with spirits in exchange for their mana, Rieze Maxians were able to cast spells called “spirit artes.” When they discovered this, the passengers of the Zenethra felt fear more than surprise.

After drifting into Rieze Maxia, they used a powerful spyrix to contact Elympios with the aim of requesting rescue. However, no matter how many times they tried, they received no answer. And just when they were at their wits end, they were attacked by something. The identity of their attacker was unknown—indeed, they could not even distinguish its shape. Those attacks never let up, no matter how far they fled. Their hideouts were found out one after the other and many lives were lost.

At first, they could not fathom why they were found out so easily, but one day someone noticed that the attacks corresponded to the times powerful spyrixes were activated. In fact, as soon as they stopped using spyrix, their attacker disappeared, and they were able to flee safely. At the time, no one knew that their enemy was in fact Maxwell, the creator of Rieze Maxia itself.

Some time later, the Zenethra dropped anchor off a small island in the northeast of Auj Oule. The surviving 300-something Elympions then started their life in Rieze Maxia. At first, they attempted to mix with Rieze Maxians, but in a civilization where everything, from daily life to the ability to do one’s job, was governed by spirit artes, assimilating was no easy task. They were looked down on because of their inability to use spirit artes, and the only jobs they were qualified for were grueling menial tasks. Even if they wanted to use spyrix, there was a limit to the number of spyrixes left on the Zenethra that could be used.

Over time, the differences in culture and mindset made it hard for the Elympions to live among Rieze Maxians, so most of them returned to the Zenethra. They believed that distancing themselves from Rieze Maxians and leading a secret, hidden life far from them was the best choice. They swore to live in a closed community from then on.

Years passed, leading us to the present time.

At the top of a small hill, there was communications facility. In the past, the island used to house a small village where Rieze Maxians lived, and this facility used to be a school. Now, the windows were boarded with planks of wood, giving it a rather eerie vibe. Gilland and other Elympions used that place as a sort of research center to make experiments to find ways to return to Elympios. They called it “the lab.”

That night when Gilland managed to contact Elympios and request help, the 20 or so staff working at the lab gathered for a celebratory party where they drank a lot of alcohol. Most of them used to be researchers in Elympios, but there were also famous engineers and doctors among them.

“We can finally say goodbye to this rotten Rieze Maxia.”

Gillad gazed at the fruit wine he was holding, then drank it in one gulp before slouching on the sofa. When he did, a boy of 12 or 13 years of age came up to him and asked, “Hey uncle, is it true that we ended up here because the army tried to wage war on Rieze Maxia?”

Still too sober to not catch the heaviness of the question, Gilland felt irritation bubble up. Tonight, he just wanted to bask in the excitement derived from the fact he was able to contact Elympios and get drunk to celebrate his success.

“Yeah that's what they say, Alfred,” Gilland replied dismissively.

“It was called the Otherworld Reactor Plan, right? They just wanted to capture spirits, and that's why mom and I…”

“Don't be such a killjoy! Here, drink up.”

Gilland’s patience ran out, so he encouraged him to drink. Alfred took a sip of the wine, but said it was disgusting and disappeared somewhere. However Gilland's mind suddenly started working at full speed. …Capture spirits? He did not immediately know exactly what about it brought his attention. However, once the nebulous image became clearer in his mind, he was filled with barely concealed greed. If it worked, he would get everything—money, rank, glory, women …

“We could just use Rieze Maxians…” he whispered softly with a twisted smile on his face. Voicing his thoughts before ruminating on them was an old habit of his.

There was a man whose hand holding a wine glass starting trembling as soon as he heard those whispers. The man was in his thirties, with sharp eyes that gave people the impression that he had a strict personality. The man squared his shoulders and strained his ears to hear more, but a cheerful voice called his attention in another direction.

“Why are you drinking all alone, Derrick?”

The man called Derrick found himself surrounded by many drunk colleagues, from whom he desperately tried to hide his anxiety. The reason he was anxious was that he was hiding a secret from them: since coming to Rieze Maxian, Derrick had fallen in love with a Rieze Maxian woman. They got married and even had a son.

When he thought about his wife Ellen and his beloved son, Gilland’s words took all the breath out of his lungs.

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Jude and Derrick Mathis

For some reason(maybe because Father's Day is tomorrow :p), I keep thinking about that job you can do early on in Xillia 2 with the girl who asks for the feathers. When Elle mentions making masks for her dad? And the other girl picks on her for it? Well right after that Jude backs Elle up by saying when he was little he used to make masks for his dad in school all the time, and his dad always made sure to wear them. I just... thought that was incredibly adorable. That's also another sign that Derrick is NOT the terrible father everyone thinks he is. It's a clear sign of how attentive he is. True he (and his wife) were busy a lot, but I believe he spent as much time as he possibly could with Jude when he wasn't working. The fact that Jude can recall his father doing that for him is proof of that.

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[hisamekun]

Taking responsibility for your actions is part of becoming an adult.

Derrick Mathis