Somehow, a Younger Sister

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Our family was not happy.

According to Mother, we had been happy until I was born.

But when she married and had me, Father changed so completely that he became nothing like the man Mother had known.

Until I was four, my mother's eyes had been perfectly fine.

A father and daughter who looked exactly alike…. Now that I'm twenty, you could say I look remarkably like Mother.

But while trying to stop Father's violence against me, Mother was struck in both eyes by his fists, injuring them and leaving her blind.

So Mother made up her mind.

Taking me with her and receiving help from countless people, she fled to a cabin in the forest.

Mother had earned the villagers' trust as a nun who regularly wielded the power of miracles—and with their help, she took refuge with me...