The Lonely Boy

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(Zack POV)

I don't have any memory of my parents, but Auntie Nepheline usually told me they were strong hunters and warriors. She told me they had died protecting the village from a monster tide that threatened the entire jungle.

It was a big tide that even that took the lives of many warriors… I could still remember when she revealed the truth to me around two years ago. I was still too immature to understand what exactly she meant by that, and ended up crying like a baby while she hugged me.

I even ended up blaming her for not having protected my parents with her strength as a heroine, even though I knew it was because she was holding back the strongest monsters in the frontlines while the smaller ones ended up sneaking inside the village and well… my parents died defending my life and that of many others.