Chapter 27

༺ The First Letter (27) ༻

Recently, Seria’s day seemed both bright and dark.

There has never been a time in her life when light and darkness were so clear. Until then, her daily life had been gray all day long.

It was a dull gray day. Swinging her sword, eating, and attending lectures. She was just living a day that was no different from the previous one while thinking only about the sword.

But these days it’s different. It’s because ‘light’ gradually appeared in her daily life.

A warm feeling, the memories of that time slowly seeped into her heart.

It was a change she didn’t notice at first, like water drops slowly eroding a rock.

From a certain moment, she began looking forward to spending time with a certain man. Just as a tamed beast waits for its companion, with whom it wishes to communicate.

Humans, too, were no different from animals in their behavioral principles. They pursue bliss and avoid pain. It was the same for Seria.

Lately, she’s been happy when she’s together with Ian. At other times, she was mostly sad.

Thousands of people mocked and despised her. It would have been better if it was over with just that much, but the swear words against her mother and the sneaky bullying were steadily gnawing at her mind.

No matter how much she didn’t care about other people’s opinions, this was unavoidable. Even Seria, whom no one believed in since birth, was still a human being, a social animal, so she always harbored solitude and a desire for recognition in a corner of her heart.

She thought she had already got used to being bullied, due to the jealousy of others, but in fact she was arrogant.

Even if an atmosphere of mockery and bullying had been created in earnest, an unimaginable level of criticism and harassment began, touching her family was a taboo that was broken.

Even though they knew how much it would hurt her.

Before anyone could question such an atmosphere, numerous students had already become entangled. Humans were social animals, justifying themselves for work done in groups was natural to them.

Along with that, it was also because Seria had recently lost a lot of pride in her skills.