An Unpleasant Past

Suddenly, the environment becomes clearer, as if I were opening my eyes.

And before I knew it, I was in a tavern. But it is not the tavern I went to in Legorio, but a tavern in the kingdom of Larius.

Apparently it's daytime, but no one is here. Which is strange considering taverns are always full. Not even the employees are here. What is happening?

Unexpectedly, I hear laughter behind me, sounding like it came from a table.

Turning around, I come across my old guild eating and drinking, including me.

It is a dream...

In total, 5 people are at the round table, me, Dina, Lescia, Giona, and the leader, Fenge.

These dreams remind me of my past...

Fenge is a man with a quiff and brown hair, with a beard on his chin. He was tall and normally wore green clothes. He was a knight, so he didn't use much magic in combat. Furthermore, he had an irritating voice and was always convinced that he was right and that he was the strongest.

Next to him, sitting at the table, is Dina, an elf.

Blonde hair, green eyes, a thin nose, and lips that always seemed to have lipstick on them. She wore vulgar and short clothes, was attention-seeking, and was always looking, no matter what. Like Fenge, he had an inflated ego and a strong sense of pride. A thin voice full of personality, which was not good.

She was a mage, she used fire magic to attack.

Together with Fenge, she commanded the guild, and she also commanded him.

Before Vince left the guild, there were only 4 of us, but after he left, our team strength decreased considerably, so we need to look for new members.

With that, Giona and Lescia joined the team, but I only stayed with them for a short time. Giona, a mage, was shy and quiet, while Lescia, a warrior, was the complete opposite, but they were good, at least until they started going against me.

When I entered the guild, Fenge and Dina were friendly. We worked as a team, shared bills, and had each other's shoulders, but all of this was, apparently, false.

Vince had left the guild because of what Dina and Fenge said about him behind his back. He didn't stay on the team long, and only joined because he was strong, and Fenge wanted to take advantage of him.

But Vince was different from the rest—literally. A Majin, Vince was of the hated race.

It didn't take long before Fenge and Dina started creating lies about him and spreading them around.

Vince had a relatively large amount of money, just like me, he was an adventurer, and was always doing missions, but alone, so he earned more money.

Realizing this, those two saw the perfect opportunity to make him go somewhere else, but first, they would try to take everything from him.

Before they could get a gold coin, he left far away, and before he went, he told me where he was going: to the Badland continent.

Obviously, I didn't tell Fenge or Dina, but I was furious. I wish I could understand why Vince couldn't stay on our team.

When I asked them, they said they didn't want to mix with a majin as it would turn people off.

I was speechless, I just felt hate.

I tried to convince them that Vince could help more than hinder, but they didn't listen to me.

Likewise, I tried to change their thinking, and saying that majins are a race like any other, they made me laugh.

After that, those who previously treated me as part of a family began to defame me.

When a quest was done, Fenge divided the reward and gave it equally to everyone. But that has changed since I went against them.

Payments started to get smaller, and when I talked about it, he apologized in an ironic way.

The gatherings that took place after the missions stopped taking place, or if they did take place, I was not notified.

But what stood out were the comments about my magic.

Before, I used Controlled Magic on the sword to have a better attack. Water magic is my magic, a magic underestimated for its offensive capacity.

They said it was just a joke, but they knew they were just reducing me to make themselves feel better. This made me stop using any kind of magic.

I didn't help myself either, I always kept apologizing and lowering my head, because I thought they were superior.

In fact, I still had a bronze badge, while they had a silver one. This only reinforced my thinking and their thinking.

The only one who seemed to understand me was Giona, but she never made a point of being on my side, maybe because of shyness, or going against the rest of the group, I don't know.

Lescia had been manipulated by both of them, and she also had the same opinion about me.

My dream was being swallowed up by the wave of thoughts that passed through my head.

The dream of becoming the Supreme Swordswoman was a distant dream, but at that moment, it had become unattainable.

But, I remembered something Vince had told me: "You always have to imagine what kind of person you want to be tomorrow, and work hard to become that person."

One day, I realized I had nothing left to gain from those people, so, like Vince, I ran away.

I fled without having a destination, I just walked and walked until I arrived in Legório.

My goal, to this day, is not to have a title of greater strength, it is to be important to someone.

I think that might have been the reason I joined the kingdom's army—to feel that I'm important to people, that I'm helping them, even though I haven't met any of them.

In the end, what I wanted was not to become the Ultimate Swordswoman. What I wanted was to have someone I could defend and trust.

When I left Pandora, I abandoned everything I had, the only thing I have to remember that place is a necklace with an amethyst.

I stopped wearing the necklace when Fenge tried to steal it from me while I slept, but I had secretly hidden it when I realized he was looking at it too much before everyone went to sleep.

Since then, I haven't put it around my neck anymore. Maybe I'll use it again, I can't let that valuable object collect dust in my drawer...