❝ … Yes, he sure is, Lady Kiryuin. ❞
She definitely had to have gotten her intellect from somewhere. However, she also had to have gained her independence from somewhere else; her mother. Who, of course, didn’t bother to stick around whenever she felt the time to fly the coop came around. And she had as well; Honnouji had been her opportunity to take her life upon herself, and harness her true potential to become greater than the ranking she’d been assigned at birth.
Was that a hint of twitching in her eyes? No, no, it was probably just the daylight reflecting from her lenses.
❝ Of course, I know that I could never measure up to him. ❞
What a joke.
♕ - She knew when she had hit a sensitive spot. A nerve. A sore subject, and she wished that she had held her tongue. Bad memories of her father? Goodness, Ragyo really needed to mind her tongue, and these weren’t her wisest moments.
From what she knew of this girl, she had set up an entire amusement park of traps all by herself. Even Ragyo would count that as a feat on its own, and she offered a comforting smile to the young lady.
❝ No, no, don’t ever say that, dear. You’ve many achievements of your own!❞