Otome? or not?

Ch 6. The past

Fukui point of view

My name is Miki Hirabayashi and I'm the youngest daughter in my family. My older sister is Akiko Hirabayashi. In my family, we all have silky silver hair that has been passed down for generations. Unfortunately, my older sister isn't a magic user like me.

Father would teach me and Akiko (magic tool user) about self-defense and magic, so we both can at least protect ourselves. In this house, those who has power are strong and those who don't are weak. At least that's what I thought.

There are five powerful family in this country called Shino. They are Hirabayashi, Chino, Eto, Okane, and Saiki. Each of these houses has a unique trait from birth.

For example, the Hirabayashi family has abnormal strength. Chino has beauty, Eto has sharp vision, Okane has large stamina, and the saiki family has large mana pool.

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I never really care about my sister because she was weak. Every time I practice with her, she always loses to me. I don't have time to play around with weakling. The worst part is that she's going to be the family head in the future. I have magic power. I should be the person for that job, not my older sister.

My sister will get bully from time to time, but she would brush it off like it was nothing. I didn't care about it nor will I willing to tell my parent about it. It's her fault for being a useless person in this family. Even though she is useless, why is she getting more attention than me?! Which I know she's acting.

When I was 13 years old, the royal family created a law that protect non-magic user from discrimination. Those who don't follow that law face serious punishment. School was an example where the royal family enforce an anti-bully rule to ensure that school is a safe place for everyone.

After that rule was applied, bully in schools ended. Those stupid bully will still have mix feeling but they can't do anything about it.

From that point on, the bullies stop bullying my sister and they apologize for all the stuff they have done to her. It pathetic how people would bully another person just to be popular or get attention. But my sister replied is what irritated me the most.

Her reply was "it's okay, we all make mistake. Beside we're classmate so let try to be friends"

The "bullies" was move by her words that they instantly became her friends from that point on. They didn't literally became friends right away but explaining how they become friends will only irritate me so I'm going to continue.

And so, the era where non-magic user was discriminated ended and a new era begins.

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Everything changed when I was 14 years old.

I was walking home from school that day since my older sister was riding the car.

I walked for about twenty minutes and finally, I can see my house from this point. Looking up at the sky, it was already dusk. I didn't think I walked that slow though and yet it's going to be night soon huh.

Then, I bumped into trouble.
A little distance from me were four rough looking men wearing leather clothes with cheap swords strapped to their waists.
The four men gave off the feeling of hoodlums.
An awful lot of noise was coming from the direction of the thugs. Two of the men were carrying large sacks on their shoulders.
One sack moved as if a large animal was inside.

"What're you doing!? Where're we going!? Let me out! Don't think things will end like this! I'll get you guys for what you have done!"

Glancing at the noisy bag and the appearance of the shady men, suspicion arose in my mind.
The voice of a young girl could be heard from the noisy sack.