10 years before the explosion - Small house

"You did it Susan, you really did it, with your talent and the scholarship, you must work really hard and be accepted as a legitimate daughter of the duke,ok?"(mother)

"Yes mother"(Susan)

"And when you do, our family finally will get their reputation back so don't screw it up"(mother)

"Yes mother"(Susan)

Susan's family was what is commonly known as a fallen noble, they had the title of nobility, but no money or land, only the name. Her mother took the opportunity of the famous lust of the Duke and taking advantage of her pretty face, she seduce him and had Susan as a result. Of course having a daughter wasn't enough, she also had to have some sort of talent to be taken to the family, but thanks to having a talent for healing and ice outer mana, she got a scholarship so all she had to do was work hard and play nice until she got recognised. Also Susan knew that if she didn't make it, her mother would definitely kill her.

3 years before the explosion - Magic University

Thanks to her hard work and the scholarship, she manage to enter the magic university and further develop her magic abilities. You normally would think that every thing was fine now, but she had become a bullied target thanks to being too poor for a noble but to noble for a commoner.

At the beginning of his ruling, the wise king made it possible for every citizen could enter the magic university or the fighting collage as long as they have talent, with the condition that they work for the government until they paid they debt.

This usually ment that there were two factions in the schools, the commoner and the nobles. The problem was that since she was too poor, she wasn't consider a noble, and since she got a special scholarship thanks to being a noble, she wasn't a commoner.

If you also consider that her mother instructed to act as a proper lady all the time and to never cause troubles, she wasn't really sociable. None of that helped since she didn't have someone to support her but the thing that made her a bullied target was simpler, she was pretty and made the other girls jealous.

Of course she wasn't goddess level of beauty, and she did wear glasses no make up or accessories a pony tale and she tried as hard as she could not to stand out. Problem was, one of the popular noble guys had a glasses fetish and since she had a pretty face, he got interested in her, and of course one of the nobles girls had a crush on him and started to bitch about her etc....

In the end, both the nobles girls and later the commoner girls bully her and the guy lost interest since it was a pain. So yeah, she didn't have a fun university life.

1.5 years before the explosion - Back alley

Susan was kind of in a pinch. The girls, tired of not being able to break her masterful poker face choose to level up the bullying. They forced her to go outside with them, and put her to sleep with a spell. When she woke up, she found herself with 3 guys in a back alley and one with a magic recorder. and Susan could guess what would happen next.

"Well girl, we got paid to do it with you and recorded, and we can do it the easy way or the rough way, you chose"(Thug a)

She had her mouth sealed and her hand tied, so she couldn't cast a spell against them and even if she have inner mana, she hadn't trained on it since it wasn't proper of a lady, something she should do if she get out of this one.

"don't be to rough on her, they want her in one piece to make fun of her later"(thug b)

"And pay attention to the camara, we got an extra if it looks nice, and we can sell it later on the market"(camera)

this made Susan pale a little, only giving more satisfaction to the three thugs

"Ohh did we scare the little princes?"(Thug b)

"Don't worry, in the end you will be enjoying yourself and demanding more, at least they hire a guy with skills"(thug a smiled)

"We only get paid for one, but no one will complain if we film more"(camera)

"Wow, how much did you get paid"(thug 4?)

"400 gold coins and the camera,200 more after we got the film with a bonus if we did well "(thug b)

"do you got the money on you"(thug 4?)

Well yes, they just gave it to us, wait who are you"(thug 2)

but when the thug turn around to see who he was talking to, he got a punch in the chin, and got knock out. Thug a reacted to the sound and tried to take out his knife from the belt but some powder got on his face and he instantly fell sleep. The camera guy didn't know what to do since the two of them fell before he could react and he was afraid to break the expensive camera but before he could think of something, a kick went to his chin, a hand took his camera hand and when he felt to the floor, a punch went to his face , making the back of the heat hit the floor and knocking him out.

Susan was completely dumbfounded after what just happened, but he couldn't understand what his savior was doing. It was a guy with black hair, a magic robe and glasses but even if it looks like they went to the same placeshe never saw him before. But the guy wasn't paying attention to her, instead he checked for pulse on the guys and started checking their pockets and taking what was inside of them.

"Not bad, 600g and a camera, I can probably sell it for a lot of money"(stranger)

"ehh, excuse me"(Susan)

The guy then took notice of the girl and gave her a questioning look

"yes?"(stranger)

"Thank you for rescuing me"(Susan bowed)

"ohh, no problem, this idiots were bragging about gold in this back alleys with their back turned, they were easy prey to rob"(Stranger)

"Still, thank you for saving me"(Susan)

Now the stranger took a closer look at her robe, he smiled

"How much you got?"(stranger)

"uh?"(Susan)

"I just save you from a horrible situation, All i am asking is a little monetary compensation"(stranger)

"Didn't you just took everything the thug have?"(Susan)

"This and that are completely different stuff"(stranger)

Susan was a little confused, but she tought that she could at least spare a few gold coins as a reward, luckily for her, they haven found her secret compartment in her cloth(safety precaution thanks to the bullying). The small bag contained half her saving, so she was glad it was spare, but as soon as she was going to open it to take a few gold coins, the stranger took the bag.

"Thanks, this will be enough"(Stranger)

And run away as fast as he could, taking the camera and all the thugs and her money. And there she was, with four unconscious men, penniless and completely confused to how to react to all that.

Note: Part 2 is for waaay later(for the spoilers)

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