{Outside Sanpaku’s Entrance}

Laban DaeMon: "I told you guys earlier about my birth. If you didn’t notice from what I’m sure Zoram told you about the DæMons and my own story, I was created sort of differently than my ’sisters’."

Princess Rebekah carefully grabs the marshmallow and takes a sticky bite.

Princess Rebekah(quietly): "Thank you, Mama..."

Scylia looks at her soon to be wife, and Zoram is looking at the fire with a sad expression. Avoiding eye contact with her ex.

Laban DaeMon: "My Valkyrie mother was the one who used Seiõr to changed her genitalia and impregnate my Völva mother. While all my sisters were birthed by Valkyrie mothers, impregnated by the Völva. That fact, along with my inability to create my own SoulSeiõrShield, made them all ostracize me.

One after another they gave up on me until I was left with nobody."

Her bright blue eye looks over at her ex-wife.

Laban DaeMon: "Luckily Zoram was there, so I wasn’t alone for long."

Scylia stands up, aggravated and EyeEngages with the DaeMon.

Scylia: "She told us you sexually abused her, and forced her to work for you. Don’t act like she was your ally!"

Don Laban stays seated and raised an eyebrow.

Don Laban: "Why are you yelling?

Listen, I was young, dumb, and frustrated with Seiõr. I was taught to believe her tribe was the reason for me and my sister’s suffering. When I had her ’change me’ for one night, I was thinking if I can’t obtain the ’ash’, maybe I could impregnate her with a 2nd generation DæMon...but we failed."

Zoram’s nails in her clenched hand start piercing her palm, making blood drop from her fist.

Laban DaeMon: "At first I had made up my mind, that if it hadn’t of worked, I was planning on killing her...but after we were done, looking at her sobbing, all I felt was guilt."

Zoram’s tear filled eyes widen and she slowly turns to face her past master.

Laban DaeMon: "It was the first time I had ever felt guilty in my life. After that night, even Zoram can vouch for me here, I treated her not as a slave anymore, but more as an acquaintance."

She looks at sad little Rebekah finishing the toasted marshmallow.

Laban DaeMon: "Not soon after that, Rebekah showed up on our couch.

If you want the truth, at first I thought she was a gift sent to me for not killing my partner, but she was most likely a gift for you, Zoram. For dealing with all my shit for the last couple of centuries."

Daisuki finally interjects and says his first words to the DaeMon.

Daisuki: "You know, you two could’ve also been a gift to her as well."

Laban, Zoram, and Rebekah both turn to look at the smiling Head Hancho of Sanpaku.

Itsuka, Scylia, and Char smile knowing just how good their "coach" is at speaking and pointing out silver linings.

Daisuki: "From the story you told us Mizz Laban, little Rebekah here was wandering around this Hell of a new world, without anyone."

He looks at Princess Rebekah.

Daisuki: "So you don’t remember your real Mom and Dad, Sweety?"

Princess Rebekah shakes her head.

Princess Rebekah: "I don’t really remember anyone or anything taking care of me other than my Mamas."

Itsuka: "Then how did you survive in ’Hell’? There must have been someone who protected you until you got to Roronora City."

The little princess shrugs then looks at her beautiful tanned skinned Mama across the fire.

Princess Rebekah: "All I need is them, cuz I’ve truly never suffered because of them. When I found out Mama Zoram was gone, I was really sad. I never thought I’d see her again."

The young girl’s adopted mothers have their mouths agape, shocked, after hearing her true feelings.

Zoram’s human and IceEye fill up and drop their respective forms of tears.

Zoram: "Princess Rebekah... I’m so sorry. I didn’t take into consideration how you would feel without atleast saying goodbye. I’m a terrible mother."

Laban DaeMon: "Yea Hun, I’m sorry for being a shitty mom. If you hadn’t grabbed my hand that day, you would’ve been thrown in an orphanage.

It’s kinda fucked up to compare the two situations, but it was almost like an abortion decision.

I was gunna toss away thousands of our possible memories, without knowing how sweet you actually are."

Char whispers to Zoram to not ruin the mood.

Char(whispers): "So I’m guessing there wasn’t a swear jar in your house."

Scylia punches him in the back off the head, shutting him up.

Daisuki: "Well I can’t speak from experience, but after being put in charge of other similar responsibilities I can make an observation that parenthood is scary. Not only can your own life as a caregiver change drastically, but the souls that look up to us for comfort can be irreversibly ruined too.

I would say you abandoning Rebekah and putting her in an empty foster home is worse than a scared pregnant mother making a decision to avoid their unborn baby’s future sufferings all together."

Everyone takes a moment to process the statement.

Itsuka: "It’s the same kind of thing you said when we talked about hopeless people seeing death as their only option to end their suffering or emotional pain, but aborting or ending an existence just doesn’t morally feel right. There’s always a new chance at happiness."

Daisuki (sighs): "Can you guarantee that, Ms. Itsuka? Can you tell someone on the verge of suicide or contemplating abortion that everything will be okay, because if you do, that person is now your responsibility. Like how all of you and Sanpaku are mine."

Itsuka swallows her spit.

Daisuki: "It’s scary, knowing everyone within this sanctuary I founded is depending on my leadership to keep their happiness safe from these alien monsters in ’Hell’."

Itsuka: "I would never tell anyone to give up though! All it takes is a small amount of good luck to change a life’s momentum."

Laban DaeMon (scoffs): "You can say whatever you want, with conviction and positivity, Mrs. Glass Half Full, but existence isn’t supposed to be optimistic.

Optimism is for the arrogant and ignorant because life isn’t fair and easy. Death is the only fair concept to anything that consumes and produces energy."

Itsuka sucks her teeth and looks away from her ’love rival’, at the bonfire.

The DaeMon mother then EyeEngages with her daughter’s left Eyelien.

Laban DaeMon: "After the Eyelien I caught almost turned you into an ice statue, and after the fiasco today that could have taken you away from me, because of my life choices and irresponsibility, you’ve almost died twice.

If you were gone Rebekah, I’d feel like I failed you, but if you were gone because of me, I really wouldn’t be able to live with myself anymore."

Everyone is caught off guard by Laban’s confession.

Zoram(quietly): "Madame Laban..."

Aiden is thinking and then looks over at the Scandinavian witch.

Aiden: "So from what you’ve said about yourself and the rest of the DæMons, you all regret your existences because you were born with the purpose of being used as weapons. So why didn’t your older sisters just make a suicide pact?

Instead of killing the two clans and continuing to suffer through existence as pessimists, wouldn’t destroying themselves as the weapons make more sense? It would be a significantly more effective way to ruin the plan to bring Armageddon to the world, giving the Old Norse theology the opportunity to be reborn."

Sol: "Because the two clans probably wouldn’t have given up that easily. They probably would’ve just restarted the plan and the new children they birthed, for their own agenda, would’ve gone through the same thing."

Laban DaeMon: "Or worse.

But my sisters and I have the blood of the most savage and mentally tough warriors to walk the earth.

If you haven’t already learned from the personality of your own group’s ’last resort’, Valkyrie culture doesn’t handle losing well and they sure as hell never give up."

Everyone part of Takamagahara thinks about Shelly’s competitive nature and how she reacted to losing for the first time to Itsuka.

Laban DaeMon: "It’s a mental, emotional conundrum we unnaturally born beings are forced to live with.

We know winning is never guaranteed in the world, but because of our warrior mothers and Old Norse culture, living is winning. So my sisters wouldn’t be able to rest in peace knowing the people they despised continue to win.

I’m not gunna front, I had to take a shit ton of anti depressants after my L to Skalmönd, but because of my Saki and Rebekah, there was a reason for me to believe I could win again."