The mother in Lilia's memory was not an amiable person.
She was strict and demanding, and had high expectations for Lilia.
Lilia's family has had the ability to communicate with the dead for generations, and Lilia's mother hoped that her daughter could awaken this power as soon as possible. So she built her house in a cemetery, a place close to death.
However, no matter how hard Lilia tried, she was unable to awaken her "weapon". Her mother's words, mixed with anxiety and worry, surrounded Lilia all the time like a shadow.
Young Lilia just wanted to deny it all. She had no interest in Nemonics, weapons, or the ability to see the dead. She just wanted to play and laugh with other children her age.
The awakening of the ability is essentially related to dark emotions such as death, loneliness, and sadness, which prevented Lilia from approaching anything as bright and brilliant as the sun before her weapon awakened.
Whenever the lonely Lilia could not stand her mother's high-pressure education, she would hide in the coffin because no one would touch the coffin in the mortuary room unless they needed to bury a corpse.
Lilia always used the empty coffin without a corpse in it. As long as she entered it, closed the coffin lid, and lay quietly, she felt like she was floating on the water and had a moment of peace.
One day, Lilia lay in the coffin as usual, but she couldn't help but fall asleep. Her mother, who was patrolling the burial room, thought that the coffin contained a dead body, so she closed the coffin lid and sealed it so that it could be sent to the cemetery for burial.
When Lilia woke up, she found herself trapped in a coffin that could not be opened. She was so scared that she screamed loudly. Facing the fear of impending death, her mind went blank.
The rapid breathing, the pitch-black darkness, and the gradually blurring consciousness slowly pushed Lilia into the abyss of despair.
"Wake up!"
Someone whispered in Lilia's ear when she gradually became unconscious. Lilia tried hard to call out the name of the person who called her. Right at that moment, the coffin lid suddenly opened, and dazzling light poured in. She heard someone calling her softly, and then a pair of gentle hands picked her up.
"Grandma..."
"Lilia, are you alright?"
Lilia hugged her grandmother tightly and cried badly for the terrible experience. How much she hoped to completely forget this terrible memory. But the unexpected guest looked at her with a mocking expression, as if he wanted Lilia to never forget this memory.
"Grandma, who is she...?"
"Can you see her?"
Her grandmother's love brought her warmth, but paradoxically, it was this warm love combined with the pain and loneliness of death that awakened her weapon.
The memory of that day was like a nightmare. It turned into a coffin-shaped weapon and has always accompanied Lilia.
Lilia knows very well
what's in the coffin and that it has been longing for her.