About twenty years before Mayu met the three young mercenaries inside the guild hall she served, the plague that ransacked the whole of Wide Island arrived at the village she and her farmer parents lived in. It was the kind of catastrophe that brought death instantly.
The sounds of pandemonium from outside vibrated within the walls of a palm wood house. Two individuals, a man and a woman frantically packed necessities inside their bags as their two year old daughter watched curiously with her round teal eyes. They were preparing to abandon their home.
"Let's go..", insisted the man in his twenties.
"Alright, I'm going to go get Mayu..", acknowledged the woman who looked slightly younger than her husband.
"No.. we have to leave her."
Mayu's mother gasped in disbelief. "What are you talking about?! Are you planning to abandon our daughter?!"