Paladin - 5

If I were to summarize my pedantic and utterly boring life, it would feel something like this.

Poverty, betrayal, abandonment, and resignation.

Roughly speaking, to those who should have loved me, my very existence was a thorn, so they tried to push me away.

And so on and so forth, there are stories about how I've experienced it for so long that it's become natural, and now I can pretend it doesn't bother me.

So... why am I suddenly bringing this up?

Well, because pretending not to care didn't mean I didn't care.

It meant that to keep surviving, I needed something, anything, to cling to.

*In that sense, I came to like the character Elysia.*

The only character who embraced and sheltered the Protagonist when he had fallen into despair was Elysia.

Of course, looking back now, knowing Elysia's true nature... it was highly likely an act to gain an advantage...