Me, Little Griseo, Touring the Myriad Worlds

Right?

However, in my impression,

First Hydro Archon Egeria should have been gentle, benevolent, saintly, and kind.

Yet she had also been stubborn and willful. She occasionally harbored wishful thinking, but she was also impulsive and extremely straightforward.

She let her familiars leave the sea simply because they envied the land, and she went to every length to fulfill the wishes of the Pure Water Sprites simply because they longed to become human.

That alone was enough to tell!

She... was a mother who spoiled her children beyond reason.

For her children, she was willing to cast everything aside.

She had thought that all the sins and all the blame would be borne by her alone.

Then! That would have been enough.

She would be punished.

Her children could have their wishes fulfilled.

That way... everything would be fine~

Who could have known that the Heavenly Principles would be enraged and implicate them all? In the end, though, it was merely a five-hundred-year suspended sentence—a five-hundred-year trial period as a human.

One had to understand that sometimes, a swift end was easier than having a blade perpetually hanging overhead, leaving one constantly on edge.

Thus, from that moment on, the punishment had already appeared... It was torture! It was also a curse!

Just imagine.

If First Hydro Archon Egeria had not been gravely wounded in the war against Cana, and had not later succumbed to her injuries amid the aftermath, ultimately passing away,

then surely it would not have been Furina who sacrificed herself.

It would have been Egeria herself!

Because she... even if the method had been different, would certainly have chosen the same path as Furina.

Wouldn't she?

That was why Little Griseo had always thought she was a gentle woman.

She ought to have been.

But then?