From Mimic to World's strongest daughter

Chapter 19

Y/n's POV

I was lying next to papa on the submarine that he had made looking in a little mirror seeing that while I was near him only part of my bangs were white like his hair. I heard papa groaned as he rested his arm on his forehead. "Something wrong, papa?" I asked, looking at him. 

"Just thinking about how many days it's been since we left the labyrinth and made it here." Papa answered. I turned back to look at the sky above us enjoying the mostly clear day before I heard someone walking up to us. "What are you two doing out here?" Mama asked, looking down at us.

"Enjoying the sun." I answered. Mama nodded as I pulled out the mirror again, seeing that my bangs now had a streak of blonde. "How are you doing, Hajime?" Mama asked.

"I'm doing alright. It's just gonna take me a while to fully recover. How do you feel?" Papa answered. Mama leaned in closer to papa as she looked at him. "I'm fine. Shea let me suck a bit of her blood." Mama answered. I sat up, seeing that mama was sitting across papa's lap before I looked towards the horizon. "And why are you on top of me?" Papa asked.

"Because you're you and I'm me." Mama answered. I got up and headed towards the hatch to get into the submarine. "I'm headed in to get out of the heat, papa!" I called. 

"Okay!" Papa called. I climbed into the submarine thinking about how we managed to get away from the magma.

Days Ago

Shea helped walk towards the dome that we had been fighting to get into before Freid decided to make the volcano erupt. It was slow since papa was still hurt and mama was helping him walk. "Almost there. Just a little father." Shea said, helping me up the stairs. We made it to the door and the magma behind us was getting closer. The door opened, allowing us inside before shutting right behind us. "Ah, hell." Papa complained. I looked around, seeing that the room was small compared to the other labyrinths we've been in. "Seems like we're safe for now." Papa said. 

"Hajime. Look there." Mama said, pointing to the magic circle on the floor.

"A magic circle." Shea stated. It started glowing before we started moving closer to it. It continued to glow as the magic was imprinted into our brains. "Does this magic control space?" Papa asked.

"That must be how he did it." Mama said. I thought about it and it made sense if Freid already had this magic because he could teleport behind us. "You mean... how he appeared behind us all of the sudden?" Shea confirmed. THe magic circle stopped glowing before something lit up on the wall in front of us. "'This is my prayer that some day in the future, humankind will be free. Naiz Gruen.'" Papa said, reading the writing that had appeared. The writing stopped glowing as we looked at it. "It's short and sweet." Papa said.

"I guess he put his affairs in order." Mama said.

"He really did. He didn't leave anything behind except the magic circle." Shea said. Mama stepped forward, touching the writing on the wall before it split open as she grabbed something from it. "Alright. We've got the proof of conquest and the magic. Now, any idea on how to get out of here?" Papa asked.

"Well, spatial magic is hard to master, so we can't use that to get out yet." Mama said.

"You do have an escape plan, though, don't you? The way out is probably totally blocked off by lava at this point." Shea pointed out.

"We're just gonna have to swim through it, I guess." Papa said. Mama nodded as Shea looked at papa, confused and concerned. "Come on, don't you girls have faith in your boy?" Papa asked. We prepared to leave as the doors opened again, allowing lava to pour in. "Actually, I built a ship that can travel under water. The Sunken Ruins of Melusine are up next and I figured we'd need one for that. That's our best bet now." Papa said. The lava was pouring in surrounding us as we used a magic barrier to keep the lava out. "I'm not sure it'll be able to withstand the lava, but it looks like we're all out of options." Papa said. Mama used her magic to make the barrier we were in head out of the room. Once we were out of the room, the bubble we were in started floating up to the surface as papa's vehicle came out from the lava. "Looks like the old girl will hold up just fine." Papa said. We climbed into the vehicle as papa started driving us out. The vehicle shook for a second as we held onto things to keep out balance. "What's going on?" Shea asked.