七星影视

"My previous room was something very small, so I am quite grateful for what your parents did, although I had to organize everything back up together, which was a pain." Sighed Celeste.

"Sorry about that, but you weren\'t there when it all happened. My parents really wanted to refurbish the entire building…" I said.

"No need to apologize. I am grateful. I never thought I would be living in such a beautiful place to be honest." Said Celeste. "It\'s as if I were living in a Noble\'s Mansion. The Kitchen is enormous and always filled with food… the bathrooms have warm water and the children can bathe every day without worrying… There are even new clothes and all. Even though we are still living in this hellhole, your parent\'s help made it bearable… I am still impressed by what they did, just by using magic they created a whole house… Now that\'s certainly new." Said Celeste.

"Right?! Our parents are awesome!" Aquarina said.

"They are quite… yeah, they\'re amazing people…" Celeste said with a sigh, as Mist and Celica had followed us and were wandering around the big room looking at every little nook and cranny around. "I wish I could had such parents myself, I never had anything to begin with."

"Oh…" I sighed. "W-Well, don\'t you have a good family here? The children and the nuns… I am sure they all love you." I said.

"Yeah, you\'re overthinking it." Said Zack. "I am also an orphan like you. Our real family is the one that surround us and loves us as one."

"Hmph, such a childish response." Sighed Celeste.

"H-Hey! I was trying to be deep for once." Zack angrily said.

"No, it\'s fine, you\'re kind of right." Said Celeste. "My family is in here… And I work hard every day so I can protect them and ensure a future where they can live comfortably…"

"Yeah! That\'s the spirit." Aquarina said. "But do you remember anything about your parents though?"

"Aquarina! Don\'t ask that out of the blue…" I reprimanded her.

"Hey, she\'s talking about it and made me interested now… It\'s her responsibility to tell me!" Aquarina got a bit cocky.

"Huh, well, you\'ve gotten a bit too ahead of yourself, but fine." Sighed Celeste. "It is not like I don\'t know who you are. Your parents seem to be rather famous S Rank Adventurers, huh?"

"W-Well, did they become famous?" I wondered.

"More or less…" Celeste\'s sharp red eyes looked at the ceiling and then she quickly began to talk once more. "Pretty much everybody here knows already about my past. I told them what had happened to me to the nuns back then, it is nothing special… But to sum it up, I used to be the daughter of a noble."

"Eh? A noble?!" I asked.

"Wait, what? You?!" Aquarina asked.

"Huh? How\'s that special?" Zack asked.

"Well, Nobles are filthy rich people that control this place. Seeing a half-demon being a child from a noble is crazy." I explained to Zack.

"Yeah…" Aquarina agreed.

"Huh…" Zack scratched his head a bit, he didn\'t seemed to have much of a clue even now.

"What I was before doesn\'t really matter much right now." Said Celeste. "That girl that was the daughter of a noble is dead, my identity is a new one I created to survive, if not, I would simply be chased down by the nobles and would had gotten killed for being a half-demon. Those nasty people wouldn\'t be able to accept someone like me having noble bloodline."

"Oh… That\'s… well, that\'s harsh." I sighed.

"It is." Celeste said. "The world is harsher than you imagine, Sylphy. It always feels like you guys simply live inside a bubble I guess… With people as strong as your parents, it is not hard to guess that\'s how you think life is. Even though everything is much… worse and darker than you can fathom."

"Hey, we know about that part of life, we have experienced things that almost killed us already…" I said. "We are not as feeble as you think, Celeste."

"I never said you were feeble, Sylphy." Celeste said, smiling a bit with a carefree air. "I am merely saying that you have yet to see how everything is…"

"Well, what about your mother?" Wondered Zack, trying to make the topic go back to its original conversation.

"My mother…"

Celeste quickly fell silent for a little while; her eyes were filled with a strong sorrow.

"My mother used to be a Demon, pure-blooded demon, a survivor from the war." She said. "She was a slave of my father, one of the many the bastard has… She… she died in front of me."

Her eyes began to grow with both sorrow and anger, and I could even feel as if there was a fury, a demonic anger and resentment growing larger within her shining red eyes.

"W-What…?" Aquarina was left a bit shocked.

Celeste smiled back as she seemed to feel like she was happy for surprising us with that.

"You know who took her life in front of me?" She asked, suddenly pausing for a bit, as if she felt like all in life was simply irony.

"…My father."

Everything fell silent, Aquarina and Zack didn\'t knew what to say. It was rather sad to comment on something so harsh, but it was on Celeste for wanting to share something like this.

But why? Why did her father just killed her mother in front of her?

What sort of sick world is this?

Ah… I guess she was right.

I suppose I have yet to see what this world can truly offer.