Chapter 651 I am your shepherd (asking for monthly ticket)
...Does Selene's personality still contain Lily's past attachment to her mother?
After all, she hasn't experienced much maternal love, so it's normal for her to subconsciously desire it. And at the same time, maternal love happens to be one of the core narratives of the Path of Love...
but……
In the "Number 14" form, Aiwass subconsciously looked at Lily.
This time, Lily did not lose consciousness immediately.
Her reactions were simply slower—and when Selene raised her hand or spoke, her body would subconsciously move, wanting to raise her hand and open her mouth. But before she could actually do that, she would immediately realize herself and suppress her impulse. Therefore, her movements looked like twitching.
It's like telepathic twins, except their relationship is even closer - either person can control both bodies, with Lily's authority as the dominant personality being slightly higher.
Aiwass thought of an extremely appropriate metaphor: Lily and Selene at this moment were like drawing a circle with the left hand and a square with the right hand.
When focusing on the left hand, the right hand might stop or deviate from its path, and vice versa. However, Lily's control was stronger, so the circle would only become less round, while when Selene was in control, the other hand would basically stop moving completely.
This wasn't really about splitting the personality into two and putting each into two bodies—it was about creating another body, controlled by both personalities!
The connection between them was not completely severed... Only then did Aiwass understand why Selene had just said, "The ritual may have failed."
Perhaps the ritual wasn’t a failure, but a success.
The old self had used this ritual to ensure the abandonment of the old self. From the perspective of the "new self," the ritual was a success—Lily's bestial personality, the "Selene of the Path of Love," had indeed been unsealed and survived. If Selene abandoned Lily, she would be reborn.
This ritual was invented when the Path of Love was still the Path of Beasts. Since the two paths were not very different, it was difficult to distinguish them.
At the same time, Aiwass’s pastoral method happens to be the “art of taming animals”!
The moment Selene was born and lost control, she was successfully tamed by Aiwass's blood. This was also why she subconsciously hid when Aiwass scolded her just now.
The original purpose of this ceremony was to sever ties and divide property, so that each person would have his or her own apartment and avoid fighting. But now it is like two people jointly controlling two apartments. Although they can also live separately, the relationship is not actually cut off, and two people can enter the same apartment at any time.
From the perspective of self-separation, this ritual has definitely failed because it has not been cut cleanly.
But this doesn't seem to be a bad thing.
"...You two should practice for a bit. Let's do an experiment and see how far apart you two can be without affecting each other."
Number Fourteen sighed, then looked back into the mirror and transformed himself back into Aiwass.
"Yes, Master."
Lily looked over and replied softly, while Selene sat back in disappointment without responding.
"I want to drink my master's blood."
Selene fidgeted and said loudly, "I still want to eat my master's flesh."
As she spoke, she opened her mouth wide towards Aiwass and tentatively bit Aiwass's palm.
At this moment, Aiwass finally sensed Selene's monstrous nature—her teeth were different from those of humans, sharper than those of a Moon Child. Compared to a Lamb, they were more like the teeth of a carnivore, capable of tearing apart animal bodies.
That is a completely different structure from humans.
Selene's personality also differs from Lily's. While Lily is bound by laws and morals, Selene is wild and untamed, closer to a humanoid animal. Her behavior is more like that of a Moon Child than a human. Even her pupil color is like that of a Moon Child.
At first, Aiwass didn't care and just let Selene bite him.
But soon, he felt a pain in his right hand - Selene had bitten it until it bled, and was still shaking her head and biting hard.
Aihua's eyes suddenly became serious.
"Selene!"
He shouted.
Selene stopped shaking her head immediately, but the sharp, barbed teeth of the predator still pierced the inside of Aiwass's palm. Aiwass could clearly feel her tongue still quietly licking Aiwass's wound and sucking Aiwass's blood.
At this moment, Lily was a little flustered: "Sorry, Master! I..."
Selene's pupils instantly turned back into human round pupils, and she also released Aiwass's palm.
"You go back first, Lily."
Aiwass became serious and let Lily return to her body.
Looking at Selene, who had turned back into a sheep's eye but had become obedient, Aiwass sneered: "You still know you made a mistake."
"Master...it smells so good."
Selene whispered.
"Give me your hand."
Aiwass said seriously.
He finally realized... this failed ritual had originally resulted in Lily's animal nature replacing her personality. It was only through Aiwass's pastoral care that Selene's personality was forcibly revived, but it remained out of control.
He briefly considered sealing her away, but decided against it.
However, since the pastoral care method has a fatal attraction to her...it would be better to tame her like an animal.
Rather than being treated as an ignorant child, Selene is closer to a beast with human knowledge and intelligence.
When Selene obediently handed over her hand, Aiwass mercilessly and forcefully slapped her palm three times.
That was enough force to shatter a mortal's bones—for a witch, and possibly even a werewolf, Selene, it was just right. Any lighter and it would have seemed like a spoiled child.
Selene cried out in pain, pulled her hand back, and curled up in the bathtub.
Aiwass's tone was still stern: "If you do that again, I'll slap you in the face or whip your hands. Do you understand?"
Seeing Selene nod obediently, Aiwass' tone softened. "What I give you is yours. If I don't give it to you, you can't take it away... Do you understand? There is no daughter in this world who will bite her mother. If you do this again, I will cut off all ties with you.
"If I don't volunteer, my blood won't be good enough to drink, right?"
“…It’s also very sweet.”
Selene interjected timidly, "But it's true...it's not that tasty."
"Right? So if you obey me, I will give you my blood. You are my tamed beast, and I am your shepherd..."
When Aiwass said this, he was suddenly stunned.
A strange illusion drifted in his eyes——
That was a fragment of memory.
He seemed to have said the same thing somewhere before.
A ferocious demon of punishment was crawling in front of him, lowering its head to kiss his feet.
He was wearing a white robe, holding a wooden staff, and walking barefoot in the desert with bruises all over his body, while endless yellow sand whistled by.
"I can give you my flesh and blood, my life. But you must listen to my teachings and not act rashly."
He was looking down at the demon, admonishing it softly: "You are my tamed beast, and I am your shepherd..."
It was a fragment of memory from a moment.
It was just a moment, without a beginning or an end.
……strangeness.
Is that the memory of the "Shepherd"?
Aiwass remembered that he had seen a similar passage in the Shepherd Tantra, but he had destroyed the book and could not read it again to confirm it.
He was silent for a while and decided to avoid the topic.
So he continued, "Also, Lily...you have to get used to controlling two bodies at once, and look after Selene like a sister. Given Selene's personality, she might get into trouble at any time. You two share perception, right? So remember to take over her body at any time and help her solve problems. Normally, you can give her your body first."
"Selene, don't bully Lily. Listen to her. If she enters your body, don't act rashly. See how she handles it first. If she's in danger, remember to protect her."
Aiwass assigned tasks to the new sisters.
For some reason, he subconsciously felt that Selene would be stronger than Lily.
However, seeing that neither of them objected, Aiwass decided to just do it this way for now.
After Selene was separated, Lily's presence dropped to the lowest level in history... If Aiwass wasn't careful, he might not even be aware of Lily's existence.
Aiwass fell into deep thought at this moment.
Why... Lily ate her own flesh and blood, but it made Selene become more like Number Fourteen?
Logically speaking, "Number 14" is just an incarnation and a false mirror image prepared by the Twin Mirror for Aiwass.
The real Number 14 must have died long ago.
...Could it be that I have some blood relationship with Number 14?
It's not completely impossible.
Aiwass suddenly remembered the first promotion ceremony he participated in. Although he had no impression of his biological mother Anne, Aiwass saw the appearance of Anne Alexander, played by Lulu, in that promotion ceremony.
Anne has the same hair color as Aiwass, not black like Fourteen.
But her pupils were exactly the same emerald green as No. 14's!
Number Fourteen was once the daughter of a viscount from the Helaser Empire, while Anne came from a noble family in the Iris Kingdom. Given the complexities of aristocratic bloodlines, perhaps there was some connection...
Or... when my grandfather was kneading his body, he also stuffed some messy things into it?
"Anyway, it's good that the ritual went smoothly. At least Lily won't go crazy because of the conflict in her path, and Selene now has her own body... In short, it's all good."
perhaps.
Aiwass sighed: "Anyway, you guys should wash yourselves first... I'll wait for you outside."
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