Chapter 7 Part1 (1/2)

Since that day, Arisa's life has been centered on Edgar.

Get up early in the morning, and make Edgar's breakfast.

After breakfast has been made, go and wake up Edgar.

Eat breakfast with Edgar.

Cleaning, laundry, and flirt with Edgar.

Then, another meal.

Of course, they sleep together at night too.

Her everyday life with Edgar will continue.

Her memories with Edgar are increasing.

Take care of Edgar, train with Edgar, and leave the point between life and death with Edgar.

Arisa was happy.

There was the existence named Edgar who accepted her nearby.

There was was willing to accept her nearby.

She had thought that such a person would never appear.

Arisa already can't live without Edgar.

She had thought that countless times over the past few months.

However, she doesn't know Edgar's feelings.

That made Arisa uneasy.

Certainly, Edgar accepted her on the surface.

But, she doesn't know whether he'd accept her corrupted, despicable feelings.

These were feelings that she never had for her magic mentor, who accepted her in the past.

She never thought of embracing her mentor.

She never thought she to spoil her mentor.

She never thought she wanted her mentor to spoil her.

She never thought she wanted her mentor to know of her weakness.

She never thought she wanted to know of her mentor's weakness.

This must be fundamentally different, or so Arisa thinks.

To Arisa, her mentor was to the bitter end, her life benefactor, and nothing more.

Indeed, she was grateful to them for picking her, who was being persecuted for her appearance, up.

However, if you use somewhat extreme logic, you could say that the most important thing to her was that she absorb magic from her mentor. Anything other than that, nothing mattered⸺.

”You [cursed child]! I told you not to come out from the cabin!” (TLN: 『忌み子』)

Since Arisa was albino, she treated as an outcast even within her family.

In this world, albinos are treated as symbols of disasters, and are alienated.