Ruya

Yes. He grew up learning to express love through action and express care through consideration and compassion, where she grew up learning to assume love and express care through attentively helping to point out areas for improvement. In the end, extremely incompatible. This part reminds me of the "language of love" counseling my husband and I went through before our wedding.

That was after he'd held the city for some time (I don't remember exactly how long it was) with neither reinforcements nor supplies while outnumbered at least two to one.... [img=Emo]

See this! I just gifted the story: Ice cola

Next chapter is a mispost of chapter 34. It can be safely skipped, as it's reposted later in the correct order.

Currently, the next chapter is a repost of this chapter, and the author's chapter count skips from 271 to 273 for the subsequent chapter.

The next chapter (124/272) is a mistaken cross-post from the author. Skip to follow normal story continuity.

Wasn't it said earlier that he was one of the few students who did NOT crush his rescue talisman?

Alternative wording: "[...]that students will ever train on."

Plus interest! And there's also compensation for emotional damage, and recovery costs... it only makes sense for the one who embezzled the funds to also be the one to bear the cost for their recovery. 🧐

Silly. You disinfect -after- you hit. 😮‍💨