You Had Your Feelings Played With
The day the starry sky shattered, both of Sword Flower University's unsolved mysteries received their answers.
One unsolved mystery was what opportunity had let Sonia, that village girl, climb from nothing to Saint Domain Artificer within a year—oh, she was already a Demigod Arcanist now, but no one was surprised anymore. Even if Sword Maiden charged into the starry sky, slaughtered the Multistar Supreme, and seized her perch, it probably still would have been hard to shake the hearts of Sword Flower's teachers and students.
And the other unsolved mystery was who Sonia's mysterious sweetheart actually was.
Previously, within the Claw Extension Club, opinions had generally split into three factions: "nihilism," "realism," and "optimism."
The nihilists believed there was no sweetheart at all. Sonia was so cute not because she was in love, but because she had always been this cute.
The realists believed Sword Maiden's sweetheart was actually a woman. Everyone from her three roommates to Senior Leonie, as well as every outstanding outsider of the opposite sex, had been suspected.
The optimists believed Sword Maiden's sweetheart was themselves. Every day, many people in the Claw Extension Club went insane over it, regardless of gender.
Yes, before this, not a single person had believed Sonia's sweetheart was a man, because every male artificer Sonia had ever come into contact with—yes, every single one—had been screened.
To be fair, Sonia was not so beautiful that she warranted a nationwide trending search, and even Daedalus's few scandals had never been subjected to such rigorous scrutiny. It was just that many people believed the secret of her advancement was very likely linked to her mysterious sweetheart. Rather than saying they were curious about who her sweetheart was, it was more accurate to say they were curious