Derek's Backstory(1)

----------------------------------------ʜɪ ɢᴜʏs ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀᴜᴛʜᴏʀ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ 'ᴍᴏɴᴀʀᴄʜ_ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ; ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴊᴜsᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ sᴀʏ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜɪs ʙᴀᴄᴋsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ǫᴜɪᴛᴇ ʟᴏɴɢ, sᴏ ɪᴛ's ᴀᴅᴠɪsᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛ sᴋɪᴘ ɪᴛ ғᴏʀ ɴᴏᴡ. ʙᴜᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ɪᴛ, ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ᴀᴅᴠᴀɴᴄᴇ. ɪ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs.

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==={Derek's POV}===

At the time that I gained consciousness of my surrounding, I was already 3 years old, I have a loving mother and an always busy father.

My mother would always stay with me if she don't have any kind of work, though my father would just visit me once every 1-2 months. My mother would always just say that he is busy with his work, which I believed is right.

At the age of 4, I had already started to realize my duty in our house. I am what you would call an heir to my father, if he gets into an accident or passes away, I would be next in line to inherit all of our properties, I didn't know what it meant at that time, so I just accepted it without me knowing what it meant. while my mother will become my guide on things that I would need to do.

At the age of 5, I was learning how to wield a sword, the proper way to use a bow, ride a horse, politics, proper etiquette, and strategies.

At the age of 6, After mastering all of them, I would usually take a stroll outside the mansion while a servant would come with me every time.

One of the days when I was taking a stroll with my servants on the streets while hiding my identity.

I met a girl selling fruits in the market with her mother, She was cute, I thought at that time while buying an apple.

As I had gained a new thing to learn today, which is the languages of different races, such as the elven language and the demon language. I would usually have a headache due to how hard they were, so I decided to take a stroll every time I have a break.

During my stroll today, I met the same girl that I saw last time I took a stroll. She is still selling fruits with her mother, working hard just to gain a few coins.

'Do commoners usually have little coins compared to us?' I thought at that time not knowing the real differences between a noble and a commoner.

Every day I would take a stroll outside the mansion during my break time while using an excuse to buy something in the shop every time someone asks me where I was going.

I would usually buy one fruit that they sell every time I go to the market.

After 5 consecutive days of buying an apple from her stall, She started smiling at me. At that time I assumed that she was just friendly to me due to my buying every single day at her stall.

I started buying an apple from her stall every time, due to the habit that I gained by repeating it every single day during my break from my lessons.

After 2 weeks of me consecutively buying from her stall, she started greeting me every time I will buy one fruit in her stall.

After a month of consecutive buying from her stall, As I was about to buy one of her apples, she suddenly greeted me and finally introduced herself to me.

"Good Afternoon Costumer, Looks like you still keep buying an apple from our stall every single time. Can I ask why that is so?"

"Uhm..." I didn't have anything to say. I can't just say that I always buy an apple from her stall just so I could see her cute face right?

"Oh right! I forgot to introduce myself, My name is Abby by the way..." She said while smiling warmly at me.

"Oh, I'm..." I suddenly stopped what I was about to say, As I didn't know if I should tell her my real name or use an alias.

"My name is Jake, Nice to meet you," I said as I decided to use an alias for now.

"It's finally nice to know your name, Jake"

As she said that, My heart suddenly beat faster than ever, As my cheeks were covered in red. I looked at her while saying shyly:

"It's nice to know your name too A-Abby," I said while stuttering at her name.

Hearing this, Abby just laughed it off while handing me an apple.

At that time I didn't know what the word love was so I assumed that my heart was beating fast, was just due to how hot the sun was or something. Though I didn't know that I would have regretted falling in love with her soon.

At the age of 7, My trips to the market were found by both my mother and father.

My father just shrugged his shoulders like what I did was just a child playing one of my games.

Though my mother wasn't too happy about it and went on a rampage, She had killed one servant and 2 housemaids.

I witnessed all of it, from her swinging her sword to one of the maids making her head fall on the ground. The other maid suffered a much worse fate because my mother ripped every limb that she had. The servant tried to run away from her but was instead captured and tortured for a few hours before he died of blood loss.

That was when I found out that my mother is super scary when she is either annoyed or angry at someone or something.

After going on a rampage for 10 minutes, plenty of stuff in our house was destroyed and plenty of people working in our house lost a limb or were injured in the process of my mother's rampage.

My mother only calmed down when my father appeared. She was quickly taken to her room by my father, only returning a day later.

After returning with my father, My mother pulled my father and me to the living room.

The living room has a couple of couches, a fireplace, and a few designs on the wall such as a stuffed wolf head.

We talked about all the things I did during my break times this past year.

I talked about all the things I did truthfully while only hiding a few things away from them such as buying apples in a stall just so I could meet Abby.

As I was telling all of that to them, My father just stared at me without any emotion on his face, while my mother just kept a neutral face all the time.

I didn't know what they were thinking at that time so I assumed that my lie worked on them without any issue.

After a few more words coming from my mother about how I was a noble and I shouldn't often visit the market for commoners and such.

I just kept listening to all of it while nodding my head every few dozen seconds.

At the age of 8, I noticed that plenty of these people were using this thing called mana in their surroundings to make fire, water, and such.

I was fascinated by them so I asked my mother if I could learn from them, or even just practice even if it was only once a week.

My mother kept denying my request and kept saying that I should focus on my studies before I could learn them.

So, I studied and studied until my nose bled, and due to that my mother always kept nagging me every time she gets a chance to do so.

Due to my long studies, I was only able to visit Abby a total of 4 days per week, As my studies kept getting harder and harder each time, I was only able to visit Abby 5 times a month, It kept becoming lesser as time progressed.

During this past year, we had become the best of friends, though I noticed that she had this strange look on her face as she stares at me, I just ignored it and assumed that it was a weird hobby of hers or some sort.

Due to my studies, I learned plenty of things such as anyone who uses mana in the surroundings can only get them as they reached the age of 10 or so.

I was so shocked because I realized that the reason my mother kept encouraging me to just keep studying for the moment, is due to myself being unable to use mana as I didn't have an occupation.

At the age of 9, I was so focused on my study that I was not able to visit Abby for 3 months straight.

During my studies, I also learned things such as love and marriage, Due to this I also realized my feeling for Abby and her feelings for me the same as I remembered the weird look she always gave me every time she stares at me.

Due to that, I visited her stall one last time as I said that I will come back once I had finished my studies and married her then.

She broke into tears and accepted my promise as she said that she will wait for me as long as I liked.

I was so happy about this, as I became determined to do my best in my studies. I had mastered plenty of different races' languages and made plenty of theories of different things such as the mana circuit is like a separate organ that functions on itself as long as there is mana in the surroundings.