[He sighs and shifts a bit uncomfortably before he speaks again.]
She was a slave. She was a native of Death Queen Island and was sold by her own family in exchange of three bags of flour... It was common practice there. I met her during my training, rather she found me half death after one of the training sessions and helped me. Despite being a slave and mistreated she always had a smile and was very kind and compassionate. She reminded me of my little brother, Shun, both in appearance and character.
She was the only good thing in that place, a flower born in the middle of a hell of lava and ashes. I... I wanted to save her. I wanted to take her away from there, even if that was all I could do, she would have had better chances in the world outside the island than the life she had there. But because we became friends, she worried about me and supported me, always cheering me to continue training, to grow stronger so I could leave the island and find my brother again. She probably was worried that I wouldn't be able to do so during the final test, or maybe she wanted to cheer on me. It doesn't really matter, she died because of me either way.
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She was a slave. She was a native of Death Queen Island and was sold by her own family in exchange of three bags of flour... It was common practice there. I met her during my training, rather she found me half death after one of the training sessions and helped me. Despite being a slave and mistreated she always had a smile and was very kind and compassionate. She reminded me of my little brother, Shun, both in appearance and character.
She was the only good thing in that place, a flower born in the middle of a hell of lava and ashes. I... I wanted to save her. I wanted to take her away from there, even if that was all I could do, she would have had better chances in the world outside the island than the life she had there. But because we became friends, she worried about me and supported me, always cheering me to continue training, to grow stronger so I could leave the island and find my brother again. She probably was worried that I wouldn't be able to do so during the final test, or maybe she wanted to cheer on me. It doesn't really matter, she died because of me either way.