Chapter 99 - 80: Straddling Four Boats (2)
Nadia was actually a bit dull, which had to do with the environment in which she grew up.
She was a commoner, and Zimmerman noticed her astonishing talent and spent money to purchase Nadia and take her back to the Wise Mountain to raise and educate her.
From that moment on, Nadia’s life trajectory changed completely.
Aside from eating and sleeping, her time was spent meditating and practicing magic, surrounded by twelve Sages; she had no friends, no playmates her own age, and the only books she came into contact with were Magic Notebooks.
Love, marriage—what could that bunch of old messes possibly teach her about such things?
She didn’t understand, nor had she ever considered these matters.
After reaching adulthood, although she could leave the mountain, everything in the outside world felt so foreign to her that it caused Nadia to have a strong resistance to it; it was only after meeting Louisa, a straightforward young lady lacking any sense of nobility’s decorum, who often sought out Nadia, that her resistance began to lessen slightly.
However, as Nadia grew and as Zimmerman and the others were getting older, they felt increasingly that this couldn’t go on; when they were all gone, would Nadia be left alone to guard Wise Mountain? The thought seemed terrible.
For Nadia’s future, they started to urge her, as they once had to practice magic, to go out more, to visit the outside of the mountain, to attend noble banquets, to meet young talents among the nobles—perhaps she could find someone she liked and then get married...
That was the first time Nadia had heard the two words "get married."
The constant urging annoyed Nadia, and then she began to harbor a strange thought, that a woman’s life is only complete after getting married...