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Chapter 9: Rejection.

 

At Mary's house.

 

 Clink,

While Ren and Mary were engaged in some kind of conversation, Mrs. Marilyn brought snacks for both of them and placed them on top of the table.

 

"Ruu made these cookies especially for you."Marylin said,she made some heart shaped cookies for Ren to enjoy,

 

" Really? Thank you, Mrs. Marilyn."Ren said, he still addressed her politely even after what happened at the doorstep,

 

"Have fun."Mrs. Marilyn left the room, leaving Mary and Ren alone.

 

"How is your training going?"But since Ren was used to being with Mary all the time, he didn't mind it at all.

So we started the conversation first.

 

 

"It's great! What about you? Did your element manifest?"Mary asked, like she said Ren's element isn't awakened till now,his father says that he is a late bloomer,

 

"No, but I think it will manifest soon."Ren Said, he tried to show away this topic since he doesn't like talking about it,

 

"I wonder what Ren's element will be; I hope it will be the same as mine."Mary said as she imagined something up her head,

 

"Mary, you have the Aqua element, right?"Ren asked, Mary can control the aquatic element,

 

"Yep, same as my father and 'that' guy."Mary responded,

When Mary mentioned the person called "that guy," she meant about the boy she met in last year's elementary level swordsmanship competition, which was organized in Sephra.

 

The name of the boy was "Adam Stales," and he was a commoner just like Mary and Ren. Adam came from a rural place and is from a humble background.

 

 

This blond kid was the one who defeated Mary in the final round of the competition and became her rival from that day. Adam left a large impact on Mary's life, who is considered a genius for her age.

 

 

From then on, Mary sees Adam Stales as her rival and strongly believes that she must defeat him to be able to become the strongest swordsman in the kingdom.

 

 

Mary is working hard to catch up to him, but whenever Mary talks about Adam,

Ren's heart aches so much that today he thought about ending this all together.

 

"Hey Mary, let's go to the park."Ren said as he stood up,he looked like he was fed up with something

 

"Why?"Mary tilted her head in confusion and asked for the reason.

 

"Please, I want to tell you something."Ren didn't answer her but kept urging,

 

Sigh

"Fine."Mary sighed but agreed,

 

"Thank you!"Ren showed gratitude as a smile appeared on his face,

Thump,

Seeing Ren get happy just because she accepted his request made Mary feel some different kind of emotion, and this is not the first time this has happened whenever she sees Ren happy about something.

Mary feels this hazy feeling inside her heart grow, but she doesn't know what to call it.

 

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After finishing snacks, they walked towards the park and entered it.

 

"Hey, why don't you sit on that swing there?"Ren suggests,

 

"I'm not a kid anymore, so just tell me what you have to say."Mary directly gets straight to the point, Ren urges Mary to sit on the swing, she rejects the proposal, and Ren makes an extremely hurt expression.

 

"Ha! can't be helped."saying this, Mary then walked past Ren, sat on the swing, and started swinging back and forth slowly.

 

"Thanks."Ren thanks her,

 

"Now tell me what this is all about."Getting impatient, Mary asked the reason behind coming to this park where they used to play when they were kids.

 

 Fuuu

"Mary Kleine, I love you!"Ren shouted these words,this has his reason to come to the park all along,he just can't sit like this when Mary talks about other guys in front of him.

 

Thudd

 

Mary fell backward from the swing because she was too shocked by Ren's sudden confession.

 

 

"What- what do you mean?"Mary was having problems with getting words out of her lips,

 

"I-I mean, from the first time we met in this park till today, I have always loved you, not as a friend but as a girl so-and-s."Ren started explaining to her what he meant,

 

"Stop, just give me some time."Mary brought her palm on Ren's mouth and covered it so he no longer can speak

 

"Huh"Ren was baffled by her course of action,

 

"So you are telling me that you love me and you want to marry me."Mary asked as she slowly removed her hands,

 

"Yes."Ren's immediate response startled Mary, but soon she regained her composure.

 

" Ren, I am so sorry, but I can't accept this confession."Mary world dropped like a bomb and,

 

"Why, do you not like me?"Ren was visibly panicking as sweat beads streamed down his forehead,

 

"It's not that; I see you as a good friend and think you are cute when you get jealous of me, but I don't think I like you in that way. So I am sorry."Mary explained,she said that she doesn't hate Ren but cannot see him in a different light than a mere childhood friend,

 

 

 

" "

 

 

 

" "

 

Soon silence befell them, making this situation more awkward for both of them.

 

"Fine."Ren then curled his fist, breathed deeply, and spoke to break the silence.

 

Shock

 

"You are fine with it?"Mary was shocked when she thought that Ren had accepted her decision.

 

"Of course not! but now you know my feelings for you, so I can do something about it."Ren said,what does he mean by doing something?

 

"What do you mean by that?"Mary is not getting the point, which is why she asked in a confused manner.

 

"Mary Kleine, I, Ren Hilton, will make you fall in love with me."Ren declared these words,he sounded so confident that it even embarrassed him that he said those words so openly,soon his face picked up a crimson shade,

 

Ren ran out of the park without looking back at Mary at full speed.

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Inside the park

 

Chuckle.

 

Seeing Ren say something like that, Mary thought

 

"Ren is dumb, but he is also cute."Mary said,she was not happy when Ren said that he is fine with her decision like she was expecting him to retaliate,But Ren declared that he wouldn't stop here, Mary for some reason felt reassured in her heart.

 

"What would happen if I accept it?" Mary felt empty from inside when she rejected Ren so blatantly.

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In Mary's house.

 

 

Marilyn and her daughter were sitting at the table, and Mary told her mother about the event that happened in the park without leaving anything.

 

When Marilyn heard about her daughter's rejection of Ren, she was utterly disappointed in her, but when she heard about Ren's declaration to make her daughter fall in love with him, she felt proud of Ren.

 

"Now Mary, look at me, and tell me why you rejected Ruu."Marylin asked,

 

"I told you because-" Mary tried to reason with her mother but,

 

"Not that bullshit; tell me the truth."This time Marilyn cut her in mid-sentence and spoke in a rather harsh tone since she didn't like the fact that Mary rejected Ren with a fake reason like,

 

(I can't see you as anything other than a friend.)

 

So Marilyn wanted to know why her little Ren was rejected by Mary.

 

"No, that's the reason."Mary was still stuck on it,

 

"Is it because of that blonde kid you met last year in the competition?"Marylin asked, and she was correct,

 

Nod, nod.

 

 

This time Mary didn't answer; she just nodded her head in acceptance and kept her head down.

 

"Is he more important than Ren?" Marylin asked with visible sadness in her eyes,

 

"Mom Ren is a good guy, and I know that, but I must defeat Adam and become a great swordsman, so then I can achieve my father's dream."When Mary said this, she looked up and stared into her mother's eyes, not breaking the eye contact this time.

 

Sigh

 

Marilyn sighed inwardly after seeing her daughter and asked:

 

"Mary, dear, if the time comes when you have to choose between that blonde kid and Ren, whom would you choose?" Marylin's question was right,

 

" "Mary didn't answer and just went silent like this

 

"You don't even know your own feelings; what will happen if Ren leaves you for someone else?"Marylin was worried that her daughter might lose the only friend she has,

 

"That won't happen."Mary answered with confidence and showed a toothy smile.

 

"Why do you say that?"Marylin asked her daughter,she wants to know the reason why her daughter is so confident about this,

 

"Because Ren loves me so much that he can't live without me."Mary said in a very leisurely manner, quite cheekily.

 

When Marilyn heard her daughter, a vein popped on her head, which she then warned her daughter about,"Mary, let me warn you not to hurt Ruu's emotions." Suddenly the room temperature dropped a few degrees,

 

 

 

"You don't have to worry about that because, even if I did, I know he will come back to me."Mary said, for her Ren was someone who would never leave her even if made a mistake,

 

 

"Haa, just remember, don't hurt Ruu's emotions."Marylin didn't agree with her and repeated her warning,she doesn't want her Ruu~ to be hurt,

 

"I'll keep that in mind."Mary said,

 

 

Then Marilyn looked at Mary for a second and left the room.

 

 

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In a dark room, a dark-haired boy was laying on his bed like there was no soul left in him.

 

"She really rejected me."Ren said, rejection was never a possibility in his mind,he never considered that she would reject him.

 

"I think I was the only one who thought I was special to her."Ren thought that he was delusional, the feelings were never mutual,

 

He was shaken to the core by Mary's rejection.

When he got home he just ran upstairs to his room,his face was a whole mess with dried tear marks,he cried for like hours.

Even if Ren successfully held it in front of Mary and made that last bold statement.

"But I will definitely make her fall for me."

 

Thinking so, Ren fell asleep.

 

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Chapter 10: Precious to you.

Mary Kleine's POV

 

(A/N: This is Mary's past POV.)

 

 

 

 

"Let's go."

 

 

 

 

Mom held my hand, and we then walked into the room, where everyone in the room was wearing black-colored clothes. The moment we entered, everyone's eyes turned towards my mother, and then they looked at me with pitiful eyes.

 

An older lady in her late thirties came forward and walked up to us and hugged my mom tightly, and suddenly my mom started sobbing while that lady rubbed my mother's back, saying something like

 

"Everything's going to be all right."

 

And then this lady looked at me and said,

 

"Dear, please take care of your mother."

 

Nod.

 

I nodded my head, then my mom left the lady's embrace and held my hand again, and we walked towards the centre of the room, where a black wooden box was placed covered by all types of beautiful flowers, and in that box there was a man sleeping peacefully, like he was resting after a long time, but the only thing that pained my heart was that he wasn't breathing anymore.

 

When I saw him in his face, my vision blurred, and tears started to run down my cheeks.

 

I remembered the last thing he said to me when he left the house.

 

(Don't worry, Mary, dad will be back in a few days.)

 

He left me and mom at home and went to kill a monster, and guess what? He never came back, but what came was his body with no soul left in it.

 

I wiped my tears off my face and looked at the box, and some letters were carved on the coffin.

 

|| Robert Kleine||

 

It was the name of this man.

 

The man who was my hero

 

The man whom I admired so much

 

"F-father aaahhhah"

 

When I read that name, I just couldn't control myself anymore and started crying.

 

My mother, who was also crying, then hugged me, and we cried like that for hours.

 

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After the funeral, we came home, and I ran towards my father's study, leaving my mother behind in the corridor.

 

I entered my father's study and looked around. The room was filled with different kinds of things that he had gathered through all his life and the adventures he had, but what I was looking for were not these things but something that my father loved the most.

 

 

 

 

"Where is it?"

Then I walked towards the end of the room and saw a large metal locker with a password on it.

"What's the password?" Since I never asked, my father never told me about the password, but the only thing I know is about the thing that is inside that locker.

 

 

 

 

So as a password, I tried his name, birthday date, and all the other stuff, but the locker was still locked.

 

 

 

 

Step step.

 

 

 

 

I heard some faint footsteps entering the room, then I saw my mother passing by me and standing in front of the locker. She then placed her finger on the surface of the locker and drew something that can be spelled as

 

 

 

 

M. A. R. Y.

 

 

 

 

Click click.

 

 

 

 

Then, with a clicking sound, the door of the locker opened.

 

 

 

 

Then mom turned to me and said,

 

 

 

 

"Even if this thing was special for Robert, his most treasured one will always be you."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I-I know."

 

 

 

 

I stuttered there because my tears just won't stop whenever I think about my father and remember the fact that he is no longer with us.

 

 

 

 

I then took a step towards the locker and looked at the item that was inside.

 

There was the item my father treasured for his whole life and gave up on because of his family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the locker was a katana placed on an

 

Katanakake [A/N: a specific type of stand for Katana]. It has a platinum blade about 25 inches long. The blade is so sharp that it looks like it can slice through anything.

 

The Katana has a gold pommel and guard, while it has a black wooden hilt. Besides the Katana, there was a scabbard resting on another Katanakake with an envelope placed beside it.

 

 

 

 

This was the treasure of my father; this sword was given to him by an elf as a reward for saving his life from an horde of demons. While this sword was given to him by an elf, the one who forged it was a renowned dwarven blacksmith, and the blacksmith named this sword Tizona.

 

 

 

 

My father was an eight-star swordsman, but it was hard even for him to pull out the full strength of this sword.

 

 

 

 

Shut

 

The only thing I picked up from the whole locker was a letter, and then I closed the door of the locker.

 

 

 

 

I sat on a chair in the corner of the study and carefully tore the seal on the envelope. Inside the envelope were some written notes. I placed the envelope on the table and started reading the notes.

 

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After a while, I finished reading those notes.

 

 

 

 

"Haa, so this was the reason my father gave up."

 

 

 

 

These notes were mostly about his journey as an adventurer and his only dream of becoming the strongest swordsman in the whole Grav kingdom.

 

Father always dreamed about becoming a better swordsman and worked hard to achieve this dream, but one day he met my mother, and he immediately fell in love with her, and the same can be said for my mom.

 

Then they dated and eventually married each other, and after a year, I was born. My father, who was still aiming to become a great swordsman with his sword Tizona, gave up on his dream the moment he looked at my face when I was born.

 

 

 

 

"He chose his family over his dream."

 

 

 

 

(Sometimes you have to choose what's more precious, and for me, it's my daughter, "Mary.")

 

 

 

 

This was the last line of the note. After that, he remained an adventurer but gave up on his dream of becoming a great swordsman and continued to work on small missions to make a living, like escorting jobs, killing goblins, and gathering herbs, until he died while fighting a behemoth and saving the villagers of the neighbouring village.

 

"He was a great man till his end."

 

I got up from my chair and went to my mother in the living room. When I entered the room, my mother was sitting on the sofa, looking dearly at a picture in her hand. When she noticed me, she slowly placed the picture back on the side table.

 

 

 

 

It was a family picture of me, my mom, and my dad. My mom said nothing and looked at me with vacant eyes, like she was expecting something from me. She lost all her hope in this world.

 

Fuu.

 

I took a deep breath and

 

 

 

 

"Mom, I am going to become the greatest swordsman in the whole Kingdom of Grav and accomplish my father's dream."

 

When I said that, my mother's eyes shook. She got up and came to me, then just wrapped her arms around me. I can feel my vision blurring and my mother crying while holding me.

 

 

 

 

"This is the last time I am going to cry, Father."

 

 

 

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(A/N: if you have any thoughts about this chapter, you can comment them below.)


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