Ancestrale War : Revealed

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

18 years later

Natsuko Kushinada, 18 years old, is still in her bed even though her alarm went off 5 minutes ago. Well hidden under her duvet in her small 12m2 bedroom, Natsuko enjoys her little respite to sleep a little longer. His room is quite simple, a small desk near his bedroom window, two bookcases filled with books, mainly French literature and a few fantasy novels, a large wardrobe and a double bed. On the bed, a book is casually placed on the duvet, it looks like Natsuko spent a large part of her evening reading. But his respite will be short-lived. Her mother gently opens her door and gently shakes her daughter who is still sleeping.

-   Natsuko. Wake up, it's 7:10.
‐   Mmmmh...5 more minutes, mom...she grunts in a tired voice.
-   My darling, you have class in less than an hour. Hurry up and get up if you don't want Seymour to get angry.

Natsuko sighs before lifting her duvet.

-   Okay Mom, I'm getting up....

The young teenager stands up and stretches. His mother smiled at him.

‐   Hurry up and go wash before having breakfast. She said as she left her daughter's room.

Natsuko watches her mother walk out before getting out of bed.

‐   Let's hope the other one will have already left before I have breakfast... said Natsuko to herself as she got out of bed.

At 1m65 tall, Natsuko stretches before going into the bathroom opposite her bedroom. She enters the room, closing the door behind her, and stops in front of the mirror to inspect her reflection. Her long dark brown hair is disheveled, her slanted black eyes have a little dark circles, her small and thin nose has no pimples, her long and thin eyebrows are perfect and she starts to smile.

–   Come on, let's go for the shower.

Natsuko takes off her pajama top and shorts, putting them in the dirty laundry bin before getting into the shower. She turns on the hot water and starts to get really wet before lathering herself up. Today, she will enter her literary final year at the Charlemagne high school in Paris in the 4th Arrondissement. She lives in a 115m² apartment located on the second floor in a rather chic building a few minutes walk from her high school with her mother Keiko, aged 38, a historian specializing in ancient Japan, and her father-in-law Seymour, 40 years old and a man of He is the CEO of a multinational communications company. Keiko is rather tall and thin like her daughter, long black hair tied in a long braid with eyes of the same color, slight wrinkles are marked near her eyes, Having left Japan immediately after Natsuko's birth. They lived all over Europe, in Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. They returned to Japan for a while before settling down permanently in Paris.

Keiko met Seymour during a university seminar in which she participated at Paris-Sorbonne University where she works, on the different Japanese clans between 794 and 1180. He had come out of curiosity because he really likes everything related to Japan . They dated for a few weeks before officially becoming a couple. Keiko and Natsuko moved in with Seymour a month later. But for Natsuko, it wasn't easy for her. She never knew her biological father and despite her many attempts to question her mother, Keiko always refused to tell her daughter her father's name. And to make things even more complicated, Natsuko has trouble getting along with Seymour. She is rather a dreamer, easygoing, very close to her friends and has only one dream: to become a novelist. While Seymour is rather severe, demanding, very authoritarian and wants Natsuko to study law so that she can one day become a prosecutor. Their relationship has always been conflicting and not a day goes by without there being at least one conflict between Natsuko and Seymour. Keiko always tries to calm tensions, but in vain.