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<span class="mu-b">”...Mom, is my father like that?”</span>
“Of course he isn't, dear.”
<span class="mu-b">”I- I know. But even he has a secret. An old tutor of him told me about his “test”, and he got so angry at me for asking.”</span>
“Oh... You know. About <span class="mu-i">that</span>. Are you <span class="mu-i">sure</span> you want to know this, dear?”
<span class="mu-b">”Please tell me. I need to know.”</span>
“...Alright. Lay down. Listen, Kima, you know the rules of the Hegemony, right? And you remember your vow you gave to the nice doctor man?”
<span class="mu-b">”Y-Yes.”</span>
“Well once, a long time ago, there was a woman. She was just a regular Jaxtian girl, living in the empire. And for some reason, she was deathly afraid of men. She didn't want a boyfriend or husband, avoided places where men went- your father never told me why.”
<span class="mu-b">”What happened to her?”</span>
“Well- that was the thing. Normally, nothing would. But the Hegemony knew she had something special about her. She had a special gene- an “inheritance” gene. You know about genetics, right? Even though we Supreme-Ruler-level individuals have the best genes in the Hegemony, it doesn't always pass down perfectly. It is only very rarely that a Supreme Ruler candidate has a child that is as good as they are; the potential is there, but there are so many variables in reproduction. Well, she had a special gene that made it almost 100% certain that a child of someone who is capable of being Supreme Ruler would also be of the same genetic level. She was nothing special herself, but she had this special gene- the gene that carries on the back of the XX chromosome. The females.”
Your tears well up again. You have a feeling you're about to hear something you'd rather not.
