“You murdered three people and would have murdered fifteen girls if I hadn’t stopped you.” “It was self-defense!” “It was revenge.” I felt pity for Soda, still a child by law at the age of seventeen, for he was mistreated since he was very little. Soda’s parents were killed when he was just a baby, forcing him to be raised by his abusive aunt and uncle. Unfortunately, he first discovered his abilities with magic before he emotionally matured, so he never learned to control himself. By the time he was old enough to do serious damage, he didn’t care about the lives he took. Soda killed his aunt and uncle, who abused him, but also his cousin. Although Merda had only ever tried to help him, he killed her in her sleep and then he went after the girls who had teased him in school while they were all at a party. Luckily, I was able to stop him. It is the Guardian instinct to protect our books and our people, and we hated killing, but I couldn’t let him go. For the crimes he committed, the law would send him to Canjii, where he would kill many others.
