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Her name is LORRAINE FOWLER.
From the moment he met her, he never received any scorn or mockery from her, unlike how others perceive him to be nothing but a worthless piece of trash that tarnished its family name.
She is the one who encourage him not to give up and just strive forward for what he believes and never obsesses with the acknowledgement of others.
At that time, he used to mock her because of her common status but at the same time, deep inside him, he felt guilty as well since his biological mother came also from the same background as her but what can he do? He is just protecting himself from others who find faults in him.
However, the only difference between them is that Lorraine caught the admiration of many students within the academy because of her pure and gentle nature, with the addition of her rare bloodline power that was sought after within the inner circle of nobles around her.
Unlike him, aside from the fact that he is an illegitimate child from a commoner birth mother, he is also unable to manifest the bloodline powers coming from the Chevaliers, and that makes him into nothing but a wastrel and a disgrace.
Although others had accepted Lorraine because of her rare bloodline powers but there are other factions who weren't that happy because of her appearance. Most likely, those noble children from the high-ranking noble households.
For him, aside from his birth mother, Lorraine is the only one who sees him as himself and not the family name that he bears the moment he stepped foot within the Chevalier household and became its Third Young Master.
At first, he was wary of her because of how she approached him without fear, unlike others who would always take cautious whenever he's around or others often just to ignore him while insulting him behind his back.
Because of the environment that he grew up in, he tends to become wary and cautious whenever people tried to approach him with ill-intentioned and because of his status as the third young master of the Chevalier household, he knew that they only approach him for his family name and not for him as a person.
However, that was not the case with Lorraine.
She always had a smile on her face whenever she saw him around the academy and would always strike up a conversation with him whenever he's alone or there are times that she would talk about her hometown and some other stuff that he only heard from others.
Because of that, for him, Lorraine became his sunlight that shines throughout the darkness that covers his whole life and from that moment, without knowing, he gradually opened up to her and fell in love with her innocence and gentle personality.
Because of his newfound feelings for her, for that moment, at some point, because of the treatment that he received from others and his family's negligence, he became even more twisted that he felt like he wanted to cage Lorraine all by himself and he only wanted her to only look at him and no one else.
His strong desire and obsession towards her became even more evident when he noticed that others had also taken a liking for her, most probably, those noble children with a much higher standing than him.
That's why he schemed his way and tried to harm them in any way that he can, but that went all for naught.
For some reason, no matter what he does, it feels like there is a mysterious force that prevents him from harming those people who coveted Lorraine like some sort of piece of a trophy and he didn't know what that was.
At some point, suddenly, he was accused of a crime that he didn't commit and was labelled as a traitor of the Empire, and they connected to the series of serious crimes that was happening within the Empire as he did.
He admitted to himself that he might scheme with others to hurt someone, and his personality is twisted at some point, but he wasn't that stupid to create such crime that would warrant him a death sentence!
No one believed him when he tried to explain himself and he even sought Lorraine out for this because he believed that, at least, one person would hear him out.
However, even she looked at him with fear and caution that she never had done to him before.
His love and affection for the only woman who he had given his heart out, even her wouldn't dare to looked at his direction.
His family disowned and abandoned him into his fate.
Everyone around him sees him as nothing but a criminal that needs to be executed.
Because of that, he felt that the world was against him.
From that moment, his heart filled with hatred as he looked at those people who condemned him for the sin that he didn't commit and just put it on his head like some sort of a scapegoat.
As he was about to be executed in the public, and give up on his fate, a sudden strange voice he heard coming from his head that made him baffled for a moment in his last moment.
« …. "Would you like to take revenge?" ….. »
'W-who?'
« ….. "I repeat, would you like to take revenge?" …. »
He almost chuckled at how this strange voice keeps asking him the same question over and over again, and even the thought of wanting to take revenge of those people who harmed him and humiliated him like some sort of an animal, but then again….
'Revenge? Heh! I don't know and it's meaningless for me to do that if I were going to be executed anyway….'
For that moment, that strange voice became quiet for a minute, but the strange voice asked him a different question…
« …. "Then, do you want to live?" …. »
With that question, he suddenly thought of something or much rather, a distant memory from his childhood together with his beloved mother…
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