While I was aware Lawine Rothsfield was on borrowed time, I hadn't expected it would be so soon.
Truthfully, I had accepted this particular commission out of personal interests in cases involving terminal conditions.
As for Lawine, it wasn't that he was incapable of understanding magic. Far from it.
It was that all his previous tutors had been instructed to ensure he couldn't. That had been Edward Rothsfield's request.
Likewise, it wasn't that Lawine was unable to use mana. He could. But the flow would abruptly halt at a certain point due to the crystallization in the veins surrounding his heart.
As cruel of a man as I may be, even I wouldn't be heartless enough to give a younger sibling hope, only to crush it deliberately through discouragement.
Yet that was the future Lawine was heading toward, dying with the belief that he was a failure.
