False Hero

"Mama, am I ugly?" 

With a little hand, she called out to her mother. 

Before her mother could even answer her question, her dad had already lifted his sleeves. Furiously he asked, "Ugly? huh? who told you that? let me---- " 

"Stop it, dear!", her mother crouched down to the little girl. With a gentle smile, she lifted her and took her in front of a mirror. 

"Look at this little angel, do you think she is ugly?"

The little girl looked at her own reflection. For her, her black was the main problem in her life. But it wasn't always black, she was born with blonde hair as any other elf. It was the day that she received that her hair turned black.

She was happy to show her hair to her friends, only to be ridiculed and then eventually ignored. Various rumors went around about her, "Stay away from that girl she is possessed." "Stay away from this girl she is cursed by bad luck, look at her hair!! it's the sign of bad luck!!" 

She looked at her reflection in the mirror as she asked "Mama, am I possessed?"

With a tender smile, her mom answered, "no!"

"Am I ugly?"

"No."

"am I bad luck?"

"no."

Her little facial expression stiffened, before getting soft. A tear welled up in her eyes, as the entirety of her cheek became red, "mama.... then why do people call me such mean things?"

Gently her mom wiped her tears, "My little Kyl, what is your favorite food?"

"Sweet sweet candy."

"What is the color of your eyes?" 

"Green."

Her mom gently patted her head, She chuckled softly as she spoke "You know yourself best right? what do you like and what do you dislike, you know it all the best. Because you are yourself, you can't change or make someone like you. Such things are not in your hand, It's bad to change yourself for others. You know yourself the best, so you are your own ally."

Her dad stood beside her mom, he spoke "I agree with your mom, you know everything about yourself right? so be prideful about yourself and never let anyone speak ill of you. Someday, someone who will understand you will eventually come into your life. Till then you are your only ally, okay?"

She nodded her "Yes.". 

The words that came out of her mom's and dad's mouth was something that shaped her life. She never forgot those words and lived by them. Eventually, those words shaped the person she became. 

In the elf forest, she eventually became infamous for being ruthless and dangerous. No one dared to look at her, people feared to speak about her. 

But in reality, nothing really changed. People still called her bad luck or ugly, but they never said that in her face. But the only thing different was that she carried pride in herself, she never questioned herself and did what she believed in.

One of the things she believed was the discrimination that happened between high elf and normal elf, for her the cause of this discrimination was their god, the wind god.

Knowing that her belief would bring danger to her family, she left the place. Her plan was to make a place for her in the outside world so that she could bring her family away from that forest. 

She started her new life in Frey nation, there she joined an academy. But even after all this time, she never did things that would harm her pride. Preserving her pride became the real goal for her.

This led to her beating up many people, she eventually made many enemies. No matter what, she never bowed her head in front of anyone. 

But even in this new place, nothing really changed for her. In this new place, people spoke things like "She is dangerous.", "she has anger issues", "she is a brat", "cruel.", "Evil.", she just received new names, but the fact that she was all alone never changed. This time she didn't even have her parents by her side, she was truly all alone.

But even after all this she never the words of her parents, no matter what, she should be always by her own side. She and her pride is her only ally.

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(Kylie's POV)

This is boring... Even though Grey has good reflexes and Dusk has some good speed, they are not still enough to make me struggle.

The countless enemies I fought and no one even came close to making me struggle, with the exception of Eira Hoffmann. She didn't even show signs of any hardship while fighting me, it was as if it was walking in the park for her. She---- she was insanely strong.

They are nowhere near her level, not Dusk nor Grey. They can't even beat me, not with this speed, they are not powerful enough. This is really boring fight.

"And your speed is indeed troublesome." as I completed my sentence I was able to see and sense Dusk coming my way, using my seal marking of aqua I was easily able to dodge it as I switched place with my clone.

As I was again going to say something, this time Grey slashed his sword. But all of their attacks are too predictable and plain. Grey is slower than Dusk, but his speed is impressive. But it is still not something that can catch me off guard.

"It is not going to work, you can't overwhelm me with speed, it is-----"

This is boring, too predictable--------- huh?

"Huh?"

I was barely able to block. He ------ he appeared in an instant, the strength at which I was hit was enough to crack my bone. 

Was he? he wasn't this fast, neither did he pack this much power ------ was he holding back all this time?

As I was distracted, Dusk took his chance to attack me. I nearly lost my consciousness, they had the chance to finish me off but they chose to fight each other.

Do they consider me weak? no no no no, I might be ugly, dangerous, or bad luck, but I am not weak. This is my pride, I won't let anyone trample on it!!!

"If you knock me down, then finish me off. Don't insult me like this." 

Don't insult me, don't fuck look down on me!!! No one is my ally, I am my only ally!!!

"Finish me off, but don't hurt my pride like this..."

I thought that I wouldn't be using this power till the final match, but I am forced to use this power. 

"I thought I would be using this in front of Eira but I guess I will have to go all out in front of both of you."'

"Mystic lake." 

I enveloped the entire ground with water. Mystic lake is a spell that I can only perform with the help of my seal marking. It helps in casting a large number of water summons in a very short time.

I will end this match soon enough. But how dare they insult me!! I will show them that I am not weak!!! I am the strongest!!!

I will beat them and then beat Eira too!!! I will be the strongest, that's how I will preserve my pride as mama and dad said.

Grey has been already trambled by my animal summons and Dusk will eventually fall down. Well, he is heading towards Grey, perhaps he wants to finish Grey first before coming for me. It doesn't matter if they fight against each other or fight together against me, it doesn't really matter. 

In end, I alone will be on my side. I am alone and there is no one special who will understand me, I have given up on that thing a long time ago.

By the way, why is Grey standing like that? did he give up? He isn't even guarding himself while many of my water summons and Dusk are approaching his way. I guess he has given up ------ huh?

"Freeze," he whispered but it was loud enough to be audible.

Everything froze up? what happened? who did it? Grey? did Grey do it? But there was no mana spike from him? did he use that less of mana that there was no mana spike? 

{Author: Mana spike is a term that means a spike of mana that suddenly radiates out of the user when using any type of magic. The spell that requires large mana consumption leads to a larger mana spike from the body. Experienced mage tries to hide their mana spike to not be predictable and get ur enemy out of nowhere.}

Did he have this much mana, to begin with? no no no, there should have been a mana spike. Then he was able to perform this effective magic with very little mana, but how? Not to mention that it is harder to freeze water that is condensed out of magic, is he really a warrior class? 

He lied, he is definitely a pure mage class!!!