Hello everyone, I was gone for a long time and wrote many stories during this time. I must be around twenty but only published two, one will probably be abandonned while the other which is on another account will still be continued.

Well I promised it so here it is. I'll try to keep it at one chapter a week. My writting style may have changed after writting various type of story. I will also write at the third person from the begin to the end.

As for why this is the part 1? Those who have read the original story already know what is coming next :)

Enjoy !

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“See you tomorrow!”

In front of a mansion in a certain country, a young boy waved his hands at his group of friends with a large smile.

The boy wasn’t very old, barely fifteen years old. He had short black hairs and a slightly muscular body as well as pearl-like deep blue eyes strangely similar to the ocean’s one. His expression was warm and looked extremely gentle, the type of smile who belong to a well-liked and reliable boy.

“See you tomorrow!”

“See ya.”

Two boys waved back and left first with a large grin as they left behind their third friend, a blond haired girl.

The blond haired girl blushed when she suddenly noticed only the two of them were left. Her eyes were the glimmering color of emerald, sparkling in the light of the sun. She looked absolutely charming as she appeared to be hesitating about something, not daring looking at the young boy.

Her eyes slowly turned watery and her face crimson, her ears slowly became hot and as reddish as a tomato.

“S-See you!”

“Goodbye Sena”

The girl suddenly ran away like the wind, leaving behind the young boy who sighed as he entered the mansion.

As soon as he opened the door, his face suddenly changed like he had removed a mask. His previous gentle expression was completely gone and replaced by haughtiness and arrogance.

‘Tch, she is still hesitating…’

Keniro was in no way dense, he already realized Sena’s feeling for him… In fact, he had made it so she fell in love with him.

Knowing her for a whole year Keniro had maintained the facade of a righteous and reliable man in order to seduce her. With his appearance and his ‘nice’ personality, he quickly became very popular with women.

If he wanted to, he could just pick any girl from his school and make her ‘his’. But among the school, Sena was special.

Not only was her beauty incomparable to the other girls of his age, but her feminine and cute personality made her extremely popular. Extremely pure and kind with everyone, she at some times seemed dumb and very easy to fool.

It was because of this personality he wished to make her his.

‘I can’t do anything but wait for her to confess’

Sena is the type of woman who trusted her friends before anyone else and never doubted them, Keniro already knew that he wouldn’t be satisfied with only one woman. This is why he deemed the easy to deceive Sena as the best girlfriend candidate.

As long as he stayed a little secretive about the other women, she wouldn’t ever doubt him.

In order to seduce her, he had spent a lot of time and money to create many situations where he would build the image of a ‘righteous’ man in her mind.

He had hired thugs to attack her and ‘beat’ them to rescue her, paid people to bully her before inviting her in his circle of friend… He made it so she couldn’t help but fall for him.

Thinking how he would very soon reap his due, he couldn’t help but grin and lick his lips.

“I am home!”

The mansion’s inside was lavishly decorated, every furniture looked extremely expensive. There were a high number of priceless painting, sculptures and vase. Each of them was extremely beautiful and unique.

Keniro walked toward the living room, inside a woman was sitting on a couch with her husband by her side, watching a certain TV show on a gigantic twenty meters away.

When the woman noticed him, a warm smile emerged as she lighted a cigarette. She was in her forties and still retained a certain beauty.

“Welcome home sweetie, how was your day?”

“Same as ever…”

The young man threw his school bag in a certain corner of the room where a certain someone was cleaning.

“Uhh…”

Not able to see the bag he threw at her back, it collided with her and she fell on the ground.

“Carry it to my room.”

The girl didn’t say a single word, she only nodded and grabbed the heavy bag as she slightly rubbed her forehead who bumped on the ground, leaving behind a bump.

Keniro sat on the couch along with his parents and started talking about his day while the girl left the room.

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The young girl carried the bag to the other side of the house.

From one glance, one could see that she was probably six or seven years old. Her clothes were tattered and her face pale.

She was lacking the energy one would see in a regular child, her body was awfully thin like she hadn’t eaten for a few days and just dragging quickly made her out of breath. Trying as hard as she could to drag the bag made her extremely pitiful.

Despite her very thin and malnourished body, she still possessed a trace of cuteness which was hidden behind all the dirt she had accumulated while working in the house.

Her originally beautiful long silky like blond hairs were now stained with the dirt and dust they accumulated during her work. The majority of her face was covered by mud, hiding her beautiful white skin. Her only remaining distinctive feature were her beautiful eyes, her blue right eye was as deep as a cloudless sky, on the other side her left eye was green, a color very similar to healthy grass.

Looking at her hands, the girl’s eyes couldn’t help but become watery. She only had some very faint memories of her mother.

Her mother was a very successful business woman who after an accident lost her ability to birth a child.

She who only concentrated on working only realized how much she wanted to have one after losing her ability to give birth to one. It was during this depression that she chose to adopt one…

But who would have thought that after only three years, she would suddenly die? Leaving behind a three years old girl alone inheriting of all her fortune.

As she wasn’t able to live alone, a certain couple, her mother’s distant relative came to take care of her. This couple carried a very large debt after taking a loan which they couldn’t repay, as soon as they learned that a certain very rich relative from the woman’s side died, leaving behind a large fortune to a three years old girl, they instantly decided to adopt her.

It only took a few weeks for the couple and a very good lawyer for them to acquire this fortune. The only ‘downside’ was the girl, the couple had no use for the girl and weren’t very willing to raise her.

She wasn’t a member of their family, she was just a stranger… A bother they had to carry around.

As long as she was alive and not highly injured, they wouldn’t have any problem with the law.

Bribing a few representative of the government who came to check the girl’s condition, she had no way of protecting herself or getting some help.

Ever since she developed her self-awareness, she had lived in extremely terrible conditions. Her first memories were herself getting hit by Keniro until her body was covered with bruises, she clearly remembered how he was cursing the people around him with words she couldn’t understand at her age.

At first, she believed everything was normal, she hadn’t developed a common sense yet. But it was with the help of the television that she began to learn about her condition; secretly peeking at the TV when her foster family was watching it together, she had learned that she was being mistreated.

Her first reaction was of course to complain at people outside, but the power of money truly is unfathomable. Nobody came to her help, all she received was even more bruises and a broken arm which she got by ‘falling from a tree while playing with her dear elder brother’.

Even after running away she was brought back by policemen to the house. Unable to get help or running away, too scared to die… She only accepted her circumstances and lived a dog’s life.

Within a few months, her hands became rugged with the physical labor she was doing. Cleaning, carrying objects, getting hit… She was nothing more than a modern slave.

After a year, she stopped crying whatever they did to her. Her life condition forced her to mature extremely quickly.

Saying she was getting tutored at home, she wasn’t able to go to school. However it in no case meant she wasn’t cultured. In fact, she was more cultivated than people of her age!

Behind their back, she was preparing her escape. It was absolutely impossible for her to leave now, but once she was an adult it would be different.

Opening Keniro’s bag, she took out his books and opened them. Although his personality was bad, Keniro was still an honor student who diligently took his notes. Every day it was the same, he made her carry his bag to his room and watched the TV for an hour or two.

During this time, she read his notebooks and reviewed his lesson. Sometimes she even used his computer for her studies and what she didn’t understand.

She hoped that once she was an adult, she would get a scholarship in another country and run away from her family.

Only six years old, yet she was planning her life more than ten years in advance. In a way, she could be called a genius.

An hour quickly went by, once she was done reviewing Keniro’s lesson she quickly closed his books and tidied everything, making sure no clue of her deeds could be found out. While she wasn’t sure if Keniro was coming, she preferred playing the safe card and only study one hour a day.

Perhaps they wouldn’t care about what she was doing, but there was a chance they would try to stop her, hence she wasn’t greedy and limited her studies to one hour a day.

Leaving the room, she quickly hid in her room. Even though she had harsh life condition her room was a normal one, she had a desk, a bed, and an empty drawer. The room’s window was wide open, at this hour, she liked looking at the sky.

Looking at the stars was her only hobbit, the one and only thing she could consider belonging to her. Something that no one could steal from her. It didn’t matter how cold or cloudy it was outside, as long as she opened her window, it became warm and the sky was cloudless.

The stars were shining in the sky, like little pearls encouraging her, telling her to hang on. They gave her the courage to keep living, to endure everything. She felt like she was being embraced by someone, that she could rely on that person.

Of course, she thought of it as something stupid. The stars wouldn’t come to her help, but just seeing them motivated her and made her smile.

But today, something was special. The stars were brighter than normal, they were like a group of happy children playing and laughing together. The moon seemed closer than ordinary and more shining as well.

Everything looked almost the same as usual, yet this difference made her heart throb. She had watched the sky for a long time, yet this normally common scenery made her heart beat faster than normal.

There was a strange blur in the middle of the moon. It was the first time she saw something like that. Rubbing her eyes with her two frail and rugged hands, the blur didn’t disappear.

“Sh…..el….”

A man’s voice resonated in the night, the wind transported this voice to her ears, but she couldn’t figure out who was talking.

The voice seemed filled with sadness and warmth, but nobody was around. Only a blur in the sky.

She couldn’t see him… See the man who was standing in the air dressed in pure white clothes, looking at her with sadness and longing. He could only call her name, telling her ‘they’ were waiting.

Even when he was embracing her, she couldn’t see him.

Lifting his right hand in the air, it made a grasping motion. It appeared like he had one of the small white pearl shining in the sky in his hand. With a small movement of his hand, the star flew in the sky and became a shooting star.

He soon grasped another one and threw it, then again another and another… Soon there was a multitude of shooting stars. It was like a festival which illuminated the sky.

The girl was in an awe in front of such a scenery, she quietly watched it with a huge smile. It didn’t matter how difficult her life was, in front of this, she was smiling just like a normal six years old child.

The man also smiled, every night he came here and try to comfort her. Being by her side yet watching how she lived, how she was crying and matured without being able to talk to her… It made his heart ache.

“Good night, Shinael.”

Watching the girl’s face, he noticed her expression suddenly change into a curious one as she seemed to be staring at him.

“Is someone there?”

His face suddenly turned into a shocked one, but once the shock passed he looked overjoyed. Two tears ran down the on his cheeks before falling and vanishing, it didn’t matter how much he tried to hold back, he couldn’t restrain those two tears.

He who had passed an eternity waiting, in front of this time, even ten of thousands million of years were only a drop in the ocean.

“Soon… Will it be tomorrow?... Or in a few months?... Finally, we will meet.”

“Rest well, my daughter…”