Chapter 57
There were three moments that came to everyone—just three chances to change one's life.
Linbelle, on the verge of losing her home to the attacks of chimeras, got into a conflict with the soldiers in charge of the gate. Those soldiers of the city gate had halved her family’s resources, aggressively separated her from her mother, and forced her to face overwhelming hunger and thirst. She had been born in a village, and a village is where she had lived all her life.
For her, the first world she knew was a cold one.
She hadn’t known what to do. All she could do was argue with the soldiers, believing that there was true justice. But that hadn’t worked either.
She lacked strength. The supposedly righteous soldiers were rotten to the core, yet no passerby helped her. She couldn't exert any meaningful force in the face of a real threat, and was, thus, unable to cope with the powerless soldiers’ taunts.
And just as she began to try to defend herself, he appeared.
‘Allen Reinhart.’
With that lofty noble dignity and overwhelmingly strong drive of his, he punished the tongues of the soldiers who’d insulted his family and saved her from her doom in one fell swoop.
"What's your name?"