Xyrin Empire

Chapter 369 - 369 369 No Past

?Chapter 369: Chapter 369: No Past Chapter 369: Chapter 369: No Past In a corner of the shopping district, inside a jewelry shop that had been sparsely visited since its opening, two idle Imperial Leaders and a spacey and slow-witted girl named Silvia were leisurely enjoying their after-work coffee time.

The girl in front of them had silver-white hair, always wore a harmless smile, and her thoughts invariably lagged behind the real world by half a beat. Her name was Silvia Rustan O’shaire, a noble-sounding name that seemed completely mismatched with her image, making one wonder if she might be some princess from a distant country, sheltered within the Imperial Palace, who had come to experience life among the common folk. Of course, that was not the case; she was simply the owner and lone employee of a little jewelry shop that struggled so much with rent that it fell under the welfare protection of Academy City and had seen only a few customers since its inception. Her business acumen and poverty could even compete with twin sisters who, despite running a flower shop, relied on a rotation of other Imperial Officers for financial aid.

To be honest, although it might be a bit rude to say, the fact that she managed to survive till now without starving, given her slow nature and her brain’s detachment from the reality, made one wonder if a salute to Academy City’s welfare system was in order.

“We hardly have any customers here—” Silvia said slowly, sipping her coffee and squinting her eyes, “So it’s very quiet now—”
“Uh… is that so…” I said, nodding with a cold sweat on my forehead. Her calm acceptance of the dismal state of her business was quite extraordinary.

Speaking of which, it was nothing short of a miracle that her shop even managed to open in the first place.

“Oh? Speaking of which, are you guys students here too?” Silvia gently blew into her cup, then lifted her head curiously, “You don’t seem to look the part.”

“Oh, we work at a research institute,” Lin Xue nodded, half-truthfully, and then asked curiously, “By the way, you must be a foreigner, right? Silvia and such, it sounds pretty British. But looking at your facial features, they’re quite Eastern. Mixed heritage?”

Silvia gently shook her head: “Nope~ I don’t even know where I was born~ It seems like I was an orphan adopted by Academy City a long time ago…”

The silver-haired woman spoke unhurriedly, as if time could never touch her. Lin Xue and I immediately settled into more comfortable positions: listening to Silvia required a day-to-day patience, otherwise it could be exhausting.

“I’ve been living here for a very long time~ I grew up in an orphanage here, and I seem to have been adopted by a couple of researchers. But to be honest, I don’t really remember much of that… because those memories have all vanished… It seems like from a very young age, I had a tumor in my brain. It wasn’t fatal, but it made it difficult for me to remember things, to concentrate…I often had memory lapses…It took me a really long time to learn to speak. Even after I learned, I was still clumsy. Although my parents were researchers, the tumor was special, and even the institute’s equipment was powerless against it; then… after my parents died, because of their significant contributions to Academy City, I was taken care of by the board… you see, I’m quite clumsy, and it’s very difficult for me to live on my own. Although I’m trying to run a small shop now, it seems I might fail… Would you like another cup?”

Smiling serenely, Silvia said this, then stood up and, without waiting for a response, took the coffee cup from in front of me. But I had grown accustomed to such behavior from her.

“And what about now? Is the tumor still there?”

Lin Xue asked with concern, and I pricked up my ears as well. If Silvia was as she described, forgetting even where she lived the day before, she would be totally incapable of independent living—a person with a disability, really. Although taken care of by Academy City’s leadership, it was still quite admirable for the girl to have lived up to now…

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