Grim Reaper in the Apocalypse: Reaping Immortals

'I know that you're a human, and you're supposed to hate all Canzers, but I promise you that we don't mean any harm,' said the blue fairy.

'That's right, that's right. I don't know if you have the same saying as us in the human language, but there's something called the enemy of my enemy is my friend,' said the green fairy.

'Since Malificient was the one who trapped you here, I'm assuming that you also hate that Queen. It just so happens that we also hate her with all our hearts,' said the red fairy.

Meanwhile, Atlan stayed silent with his thoughts. Somehow, there was something strange with this. It was as if he was close to figuring something out. It was on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't quite grasp it yet.

'As long as you get us out of this prison, we will do anything for you. Please. We need to get there before the Queen does.'

'I'm sure you don't understand why we're so desperate—'

Then, Atlan finally understood why. He looked at the three fairies floating in front of him and said,

'You're Tulip's mothers, right?'

His words seemed to have sent a shockwave to the three fairies, surprising them so much that they ended up backing away from him to the wall.

'You!....you know about our daughter?' asked the blue fairy.

'That's our daughter! Do you know about her? Where is she?' asked the green fairy.

It was an incredible coincidence that the human they found in this prison knew about their daughter. In terms of probability, it was about a hundred thousand to one odds that this would happen. Yet it did, as if there was something else at play here.

But despite the two fairies feeling a tinge of hope and desperation, the red fairy looked at Atlan with a grim face.

'How do you know about her name?'

Once the red fairy said those words, the rest of the fairies immediately realized the implications.

After all, no one was supposed to know about Tulip's name—especially not a human. One possibility that might have happened was that Atlan encountered Tulip and witnessed her death, in which she said her name as his last words.

After all, that was what they taught her from when she was a child.

Suddenly, the three fairies glowed with an intense light. An invisible, overbearing pressure bore down on Atlan, forcing him to kneel just to survive the impact of their pressure.

It was at this point that Atlan realized that the three fairies were not simple creatures. The combination of all three fairies was probably equal to the Magical Queen in terms of raw power.

Atlan cursed his luck. It seemed that he was an attractor to strange, powerful creatures in the Remedium.

'How did you know her name? Is she dead?' they all asked him simultaneously.

Atlan borrowed the powers of the puppets and fought against the pressure of the 'good' fairies. He forced himself to stand up and look at the fairies eye to eye.

'No, she isn't dead. I was trying to save her…it's the reason I'm here in the first place. The Queen was about to get a hold of her, but I put myself in between them and ended up trapped here.'

Atlan said the truth and nothing but the truth. With these kinds of powerful creatures, he knew that telling lies would only result in a bad ending.

And since they looked like they were Tulip's mothers, he correctly thought that they would feel gratitude for him after saving their daughter.

'She…she's alive…she's alive!" shouted the green fairy.

'You're telling the truth, right? You saved her?' asked the blue fairy.

Meanwhile, the red fairy looked at Atlan and tried to discern his words. But all she saw was something genuine.

'He's telling the truth,' the red fairy declared.

But that wasn't all. The red fairy seemed to have sensed a greater connection with Atlan and their daughter. It seemed much deeper than an acquaintance.

'How is she? Has she been feeling well?' asked the blue fairy.

'Has she been taking care of herself? Oh poor Tulip. She must have been on the run all this time…' cried the green fairy.

But before he answered their questions, Atlan had his own question for them.

'What happened to you? Tulip told me that she tried to find you after your house burned down, but you were gone.'

The fairies all looked down, ashamed of themselves.

'Truth is, we've been trying to hide Tulip from Malificient for all her life. For some years, living in seclusion in the middle of the forest gave us that peace. But, we knew that it was only a temporary solution. The Queen would find us eventually.'

'So, we thought that we would try to kill her ourselves before she could try to kill Tulip.'

'But, that ended up in our capture, and the burning of our house. It's our fault this is happening.'

Atlan sighed. Their life seemed tragic. All this while, Tulip thought that she was the one who caused their home to be burned down and her mothers to disappear. As it turned out, she had nothing to do with it at all.
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'When I first met Tulip, she was extremely sad. She blamed herself for what happened. But, she pulled herself together and helped us reach your burned house.'

When they heard that, the fairies became even more depressed. But there was hope. If they could go out now and fight the Queen, they had a chance to finally finish this once and for all.

'I have another question,' said Atlan. 'Why Tulip? She doesn't seem like she's anything special, but why is the Queen hell-bent on catching her? Is there something hidden about her?'

The three good fairies looked at each other, debating whether they would tell this human the secret or not.

'We shall tell him,' the red fairy said.

'But—'

'There's no point in keeping it a secret anymore. The Queen is on her way to her right now.'

The three fairies nodded and finally told the truth about Tulip.

'She is this kingdom's inheritor.'