Now it's just me and my brother but he works pretty much all day, every day, so that we can still have a relatively normal live. That means I'm alone a lot when I'm not with Eloria or Jaswyn. But it's fine, I really appreciate and love him and I will look for a job as soon as I turn 18 so I will finally be able to help him out a bit. Even though he never said or did anything that would suggest he feels that way, I still feel like a burden. He's not much older than me and it's not fair that he has to take care of another person as well as himself just because of the mistakes our parents made.
Even though I love swordsmanship and everything evolving around battling in general and my biggest dream ever since I have been little was to be a knight, I will still accept whatever job I can get the most money from and I will force myself to be happy with it. "Rein!" I called out for my brother. No answer, guess he's still at work. Like I predicted, we don't have any food in our storage except for a few beets and I have no idea how they even came here, neither me nor my brother like them. Slightly annoyed and hungry I went into my room, I wanted to rest a bit before practicing fighting outside.
Currently my daily routine is wake up, sword practice with Jaswyn, meeting up with Eloria for lunch, workout a bit, have dinner and lastly free time until I fall asleep, so yeah, I don't know much math or other stuff like that but I can kick ass in almost every scenario and in this world that certainly is more useful than everything else. I don't really feel the need to learn other stuff, I just wanted to start in a blacksmith or tavern, I already have the knowledge I would need for that and the loan is alright but Rein insisted that I have to go to the academy a bit longer before I can start searching for a job.
I can read and do most basic calculations, that's enough for me so I really didn't want to go back but to ensure I listen to him and not skip school anymore he confiscated practically all my weapons expect a single dagger for self protection and I don't get them back until my 18th birthday and only if I go to school regularly the whole time until then starting from..... tomorrow. Yay me.
Most other people would probably be exited since studying is pretty expensive but I really don't want to go, I'm not cut out for it. But what Rein says goes. He uses the money our parents left behind to pay the school feis and I'd never let that money go to waste even though I don't fit in the slightest and I'm alone there most of the day because Eloria is in another class. At least there are a few interesting lessons: combat, history and magic-protection since it is really important if any of the students would ever have enough bad luck to run into a victim of the curse of the hollowed.
Many years ago when I was stil a baby the great infestation began. The infected started to develop strange, inhuman abilities, but the price for it was their sanity. The only response they are capable of showing to humans is attacking them. Many, many people died then, either because they were helpless and the cursed ones easily murdered them or they were infected themselves and the royal knights or hunters killed them. Even a lot of the people that fighted against the monsters and were strong enough to kill them were executed by followers of the divine light cult soon after. They believe that the curse is some kind of divine punishment and that it only kills sinners and spares the innocent so they think it's a sin to try and kill the infected, they practically worship them. But even children get infected and they never survive so I don't see how that could ever be fair punishment. They've done nothing wrong.
Thank the gods the curse is almost extinct these days. There hasn't been a case near our town in years now and it's highly unlikely that there will be one in the near future since we have taken the necessary precautions. Still, knowledge is powerful so all things that humanity knows about the curse are taught in the academy and the town wall and knights will protect us if something should happen. It's a shame that I won't ever get the chance to be one of them because of the lack of money in my family but that's life I guess, sometimes fate has other plans for you.