I always thought the world was divided into two categories.
There is the first, which is that of the heroes, not necessarily strong and valiant like those who are seen in the movies or that is read in the novels, but ordinary people who invests all themselves in the work, in the study and in their own future. And then there is the second one: the marginalized or, as I like to call them, "the liabilities without future." People who are completely uninterested in anything about their self, who focus their interest only on relatively useless things.
Honestly I was aware that if I still wasn't finished in the second category, it was only thanks to my name. Nyke Doralis Alpha. Obviously being part of the royal family has its advantages. But unfortunately, even the royals have their black sheep.
Each element of each generation of the Alpha house was remembered, who for a valiant reason, who for one even more magnificent, for centuries. When I realized that I was not able to withstand all the pressure of this name, I decided to leave all the glory and weight to my beloved older brother, Kyron.
Did I wash it off my hands? Well, yes.
Of him, I could affirm it with confidence, it would be spoken for centuries; Maybe in the future he would have done some feat at the limits of heroism, or he would simply rule the kingdom with a magnanimous and wise spirit, like our Father. It is in fact that I knew, that when the time would come, in all the history books would be found his name: Kyron Aelius Alpha, CXCth king of Therius.
Perhaps I would end up in that book too, as the good for nothing little sister of that great king, or perhaps simply my laziness would lead me to be erased from the story itself. It wouldn't have been my name even after I died. This did not caused in me any other emotion except relief.
I couldn't stand the people who talked about me in life, let alone having to hear my name from the afterlife (where I could finally rest without any contraindications) called every time a student would be made to stand up to read a paragraph of a few tedious textbook on the history of Neokosmos. Only to imagine the scene I pitied him.
Maybe that guy was just thinking about where to go next with his group of friends, or how to pass the side mission of Knights IV, and while being disturbed and made to stand in front of the whole class to read about me, the second-born of the great Iason Attis Alpha who... had done nothing at all in his life.
While I was thinking about this perspective, I heard someone getting behind my back.
"So you found the strength to get out of bed, but not to go to school?"
Do not go to school and take refuge in the fast food near the palace. Not one of my best ideas.
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