Vol 1 Chapter 7 (2/2)
Even adults could get lost in the vast capital.
To the six-year-old Leticia, it was a great adventure.
Even if it was only exploring the straight main street.
She walked down the street while the city was still asleep.
Despite the great adventure that was exciting at the start, the girl started to feel lonely in the silent streets.
It was as if she were the only one in the world.
It was scary.
However, she didn’t become agitated.
Feeling these lonely feelings, and n.o.body beside her, her excitement slowly dwindled with each step. [6]
At that time….
A lone boy appeared in the down-hearted Leticia’s view.
Holding a wooden stick, he was whole-heartedly swinging it.
Was he practicing swordsmans.h.i.+p?
Compared to her elder brother who was learning swordplay, his movements were unrefined. However, his movements still captivated Leticia.
Despite the shoddy movements, it was full of vigor and enthusiasm.
His eyes shone with the light of determination as he swung the stick while gritting his teeth.
The young girl sensed this atmosphere.
She had longed for company in her little adventure.
The boy noticed her stare and looked at her.
Without thinking, her curiosity outweighing hesitance, she gathered her courage and approached.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m training.”
“Is that interesting?”
“I don’t know whether or not it’s interesting, but it’s pleasant.”
“May Leti do it too?”
The boy agreed, and Leticia picked up a fallen stick, and swung it beside the boy.
At this, the boy stared at her for a while, while breathing a sigh, “Fuu…” began to swing with her.
Although he was swinging his stick, he would sometimes observe Leticia.
Worry and bewilderment mixed in her face.
Leticia had never enjoyed other people’s attention.
After the training, when Leticia finally said “Good morning” to the boy, and timidly asked if she could join him tomorrow, the boy nodded with a bewildered expression.
With the merry feeling overshadowing the fact that she had run away from home, even when she returned to receive a strict scolding from her parents and the tutor, the feeling did not fade.
Because she had found a place where she belonged.
From then on, she would meet the boy every day.
After asking the tutor, she received a bokken.
After a while, her parents no longer paid attention to her escapades.
They only paid attention to Reiruzu and her two elder sisters, of whom the tutor sang praises.
For Leticia, this was convenient.
That boy, Wynn, would always train alongside Leti.
Even when they ran, he would run alongside Leticia, never running at an unreasonable speed.
Even when practicing with the bokken, despite being able to handle Leticia’s strikes, he never injured her, but rather slowly instructed her.
To Leticia, who only received the tutor’s harsh words, it made her extremely happy. [7]
When the tutor a.s.signed her a book, she take it from the mansion to Wynn, who would happily read it, working through its contents together.
Instead of the tutor’s method of forcing the information into her, she understood it when they thought through it together.
In the year that she spent with Wynn, she felt herself grow and mature.
She was even gradually able to understand her elder siblings’ swordplay and magic lessons.
Even after the tutor had the att.i.tude of having given up on her, she still learned magic and swordplay from him.
He had already given up on her abilities.
Therefore, they were unable to recognize her true ability.
Until that fateful day, when the oracle announced Leticia to be the “Brave”.
Wynn silently swung his sword.
Leticia silently held her hand to her chest and closed her eyes.
During her journey, when many painful things occurred, if she thought of Wynn, she become energized.
Courage would gush forth.
When those painful things occurred, it was because she would borrow his unyielding determination and believed, that she could persevere.
‘The one who guided me was you. Because I wanted to meet you, I became not just the Brave, but a determined person.
Leticia could clearly see Wynn swinging his sword.
Her current ability was far from the her in the image.
However…
She unconcealed her presence.
Drawing her practice sword, she suddenly jumped out of the shadows.
“Onii-chan!”
“Na,,, Le- Leti!?”
Striking at Wynn with overwhelming pressure, she covered the ground between them instantly.
‘This is my true power now.’
Leticia was now standing beside the boy she had wanted to stand beside for so long. [8]
‘Surely it was because of you, that I was able to believe and struggle on up to this point.’
AN: After four years, the two finally cross swords.
Leticia’s perspective of the past.
Next time on YnO: Wynn VS Leticia, desu. Little by little, the story begins to move.
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