'I had the choice back then… but I retreated… I failed…'
As the memory of a distant past appeared in her mind, Lia thought about various things in her head at her deathbed.
In a distant past, when her mother taught her to use every ounce of her will to achieve her goal even in desperate times, Lia didn't manage to learn that lesson.
She was too young to understand the meaning behind those heavy words.
She was far from being capable of carrying the burden of promises and ambitions on her tiny shoulders.
But time does not wait for anyone; it doesn't wait for any circumstance and does not show mercy to even the most desperate.
The test, the show of will, came too early for Lia.
Her father, who was absent even during his own wife's funeral due to an urgent dungeon break situation, finally came home after many days.
But Lia just stood in front of her room's door.
