Remembering the stunning visage of her mother saddened May, making the air around her exude a sense of melancholy.
Looking down at her balled-up knuckles, tears began to bubble up in her big, beautiful eyes. "If only Mother were here right now… Then maybe… Maybe I wouldn't feel so alone…"
No!
She straightened up, that same resolute gleam from before reappearing once more.
This was no time to get lost in depression!
She resolved to escape the Castle and her Royal Duties once and for all—and she planned to follow through with her original intentions!
From that moment onward, May gradually began to change. Her timidness and sadness transformed into the bowstring that would propel her to untold heights.
And as the years flew by, she advanced so far in her Body Refinement Cultivation that she one day returned to that lonely Castle atop a hill of fallen enemies—those who died in battle to secure that Castle's place.
