Insomnia

February 14

When I finished telling my story, everyone was sitting down and paying close attention to what I was saying, as they were interested in everything that had happened during that time. I still stood by the fireplace and finished telling the story, not wanting to go on any longer than it already was.

"After that, I wandered the tunnels for a few more months because it took me a long time to make another map with what I remembered and go back to find the right tunnel.
"After I found it again, I had to prepare myself properly, because it was quite a long journey, so food would be a problem".
"And although the time I spent with Luna has given me confidence in dealing with small dragons, I always try to keep a safety margin".
"But even if I tried to get enough food, I could only get enough for about four days of a trip that would take me at least 2 weeks, so I had to make another difficult decision".
"Betting everything on a one-way trip, through a tunnel I knew nothing about, would only take me to the origin of everything and where perhaps my salvation or my death could be".
"But in the end I succeeded, otherwise I would not be here talking,"
"Later I realized that if I could find a special kind of dragon, a breeder would eat the Luna Core, maybe I could make her revive from one of her eggs.
"But even if I spent the rest of the war looking for one, I didn't get the chance. After all, they were well protected in enemy territory, and they were also targets for immediate elimination".
"So I decided to keep the gem and take care of it, maybe take it to a place or two and try to fulfill the promise I made to her." I told my audience, trying to finish my story.

When I finished speaking, Tamamo came over and hugged me, she had a sad look in her eyes, but she didn't say anything. Momo, even though she knew the story, I could see that she was still unhappy with the ending. My mother talked to Maria because she was crying, because my sister was most surprised to hear that the "hero of history" does not always win the battles, that there can be terrible defeats too.

"Then her soul is locked in the diamond?" my mother asked.

"I don't know the truth," I replied.
"Like Nanami, the angels have not been able to find her."
"But personally, I would like to think that yes, she is most likely trapped in that gem."
"So I want to treat her as best I can, treating her as a living being instead of just an object.."

""If the conflict reaches such a level of destruction, why it seems impossible for anyone to know that such an event has even occurred in the first place?
"Why is there no record or proof that such a war happened?" She asked again.

"Well, I don't want to get too technical about what happened, so the summary could be that when the dragons lost the war, they were completely eliminated from Earth.
"Probably the only evidence that existed is these gems and the body I now possess."

"Even though I tried my best to figure out how the Gem works, we can't understand Luna's core.
"So it is impossible for the angels to know how to bring Luna back without the use of a dragon breeder, which is now extinct" The transparent angel also joined the conversation.

After that, Maria stood up with determination in her face, took the black book, her grimorie she had next to her and began to speak as well.

"What if we try to use magic to bring her back?"
"There must be a spell somewhere that can help us!" she said, anxiously flipping through the pages of her book.

"Spells and Curses Compilation Grimoire"
"Created by Xian Fang."
"......"
"Interesting author name, knowing it might be true."
"Probably this book really contains real magic"
"Wait a minute!" Tamamo said as she took the book out of Maria's hands.
"I know some of these spells!"
"These are really dangerous spells!"
"How did you get such a thing?"
"I don't think wizards publish books for everyone."

"Well, it's old, but I found an archive of this book on the Internet years ago."
"But you mean it's a real magic book?" My sister asked happily when she heard the goddess talking about the book that had caused her so much embarrassment.

"What is the Internet?"
"Is it near here? I would like to visit that library if possible," once again the lack of modern knowledge caused problems for my goddess wife.

"It's very difficult to explain"
"Perhaps the easiest way would be to say that it is a library with a lot of information that almost everyone can access with a tool" The crystal girl tried to give a quick example so that Tamamo more or less understood what my sister was talking about.
"I don't think magic works because dragons were very suspicious of angels, so they trusted their bodies and evolutions more".
"If there was a way to get them out, it was probably lost with them."

"So it's much more complicated than it already was," my sister said disappointedly.

Despite the suddenness of Momo's arrival, I like how calm she is with the others and how they treat her as if she had been with us for a long time. Momo is quite reluctant about how people will treat her because of her appearance, but she is also aware that although my mother and sister try to not give it importance, you can see that they stare at her a lot, but she understands that it is normal because they only recently know her for what she tries to tolerate. Tamamo, Momo and my sister were still the three of them trying to see the magic book, when my mother, looking worriedly at the clock on the wall, reminded us that it was already quite late and that we still had to go to school tomorrow morning. what we had to go to sleep now.

"Thanks to Cesar, who didn't say anything about her, we don't have a place for Momo to sleep."
"So, since you are responsible for this problem, you will sleep in the living room until we manage to prepare a place for her to sleep".
"Momo, you can sleep next to Tamamo in the room upstairs, feel free to throw your husband's things in the trash if you need space."
"If you have any complaints, Cesar, you can sleep in your own house or on the street, It's up to you," said my mother, still angry about what happened to the angel.

"I was not going to complain to begin with" I replied.

When I was done talking and getting ready to go to sleep, I took Momo to show her where she was going to sleep, then grabbed a pillow and a blanket and went back downstairs to use the sofa as my bed. Although Tamamo tried to join me in the living room, I told her that she better stay in the room because I didn't want to make my mother more angry. Even though the sofa was not as comfortable as the bed, I was still glad not to sleep on the floor, because I had done that so many times, even with a full battle suit, that it was good for me since it was a place that I fit in and was moderately warm.

But regarding my desire to sleep, it was very different because I had also slept so much this week that I even felt bad about having the opportunity to go back to sleep so often. I think in my subconscious my brain thinks that I do not deserve to sleep because something bad might happen or someone might need my help at any time and I should be available immediately. First I tried to do the normal thing, not think about anything, then I thought about something trivial like how Tamamo would torment me tomorrow at breakfast, or how much I had screwed up with Valentine's gifts. Still, I was not at all sleepy, in fact, I almost wanted to go for a run and do some stunts just for the fun of it. So I resorted to more aggressive methods. Ever since I was a kid, I liked to drink chocolate before going to sleep, but when I was having trouble sleeping like I was now, my mom would heat it up and add vanilla and some marshmallows. So I got up and went to the kitchen to do just that. And even though the cup of hot cocoa was almost finished, I still couldn't get a wink of sleep. But unlike those times when I suffered from nocturnal panic attacks, tonight I was quite relaxed, just not sleepy. At one point I even started to look out of the living room window at the street outside just to entertain myself, there was nothing interesting outside, the street was empty, although every now and then a minivan with people drove by. But even though it looked exciting, after a while it stopped driving by and instead a police car started driving by on patrol, so it was just me being paranoid.

When it was eleven o'clock at night, I was still fully awake, and although I tried not to make too much noise in the house so as not to disturb others, I was already sick of my insomnia. So I just turned on the TV and started to see what the channels were showing, but I underestimated how bad Japanese shows are, from the actors who overreacted to everything, to the endless talk shows, although it was fun to see the commercials in the middle. Since they were completely unique, they ranged from some that were more interesting than the shows to things that were directly "disturbing".

However, after a few minutes of changing channels, I managed to find a really interesting one. It was about the life of Damien Raven, the head of the I.S.C., from the time his father's business went bankrupt to how he became one of the richest men on the planet. Although I personally think the story of my mother's overcoming is more surprising, it is also true that she is not a famous person and also that she wants to stay hidden so they would not make a mini-documentary, but there was a part of the program that was really interesting As they said today, February 14th, his wife Rose, the true founder of the I.S.C., died of a sudden heart attack, in her arms during a visit to her hometown, Saint Petersburg. So Damien built a monument there in honor of his wife, which he visited today, as he does every year on her anniversary. It even seemed ironic to me that this day was also the anniversary of the defeat of the dragons, or how the I.S.C. was a symbol of hope during the war against them, as they were the ones who developed new technologies and weapons to fight those beasts. Rose was even a good friend of mine who helped me a lot, and it was largely because of her that we were able to win. She also told me many times about her husband and how they had fallen in love since she loved the protective way Damien treated her. It was thanks to her that I trusted that company so much, but now they are my enemies. And her husband, who she loved so much, is now my enemy because they decided to hurt my family. I don't know what Damien was thinking when he started doing this after Rose died, but I'm sure she would never have let him hurt innocent people.

I was still angry watching TV when something suddenly happened. From one moment to the next my body began to feel heavy, extremely heavy, and almost as fast I fell asleep, it was very strange, it was like a sedative,. But even though I tried to scream for help, I couldn't do anything and fell on the couch in the living room.