[ Six months ago ]
Imperius family training halls.
A boy with black hair and red eyes knelt on the hard stone floor, gasping for breath. His body was covered in bruises, his training uniform torn in several places soaked with blood. He clutched a wooden sword in trembling hands that could barely keep it from slipping.
It was Arthur.
Standing in front of him were two children who looked two or three years older than him. Both wore the emblem of an Imperius branch family on their chests.
They were Arthur's cousins.
Chloe and Roman—brown-haired siblings from a renowned Imperius branch line.
Up in the spectator seats, Sylvia and Jessica sat side by side, watching the training match below. A short distance away sat a brown-haired man with calm brown eyes and a straight posture, and beside him, a woman with long blue hair and sharp features.
