Newfando.

Ever since the crushing defeat that she had suffered on the Canston Plain, Theresa had locked herself in her own room, refusing to see anyone.

Even Duke Eru had been shut out and denied when he had tried to visit her.

He knew just how headstrong and stubborn his daughter was, so he could only sigh in dejection for a while in front of her door before departing. He was sighing both for his daughter and himself.

Whenever something like this happened, he would always blame himself, thinking that his daughter wouldn't have had to work so hard if he had just been more competent.

In reality, Theresa was able to calmly accept her own failures. However, what she couldn't accept was consolation from others, particularly words of consolation from her own father as she had always looked down on him. She had always been disgusted by how weak and inept he was, so she was always extremely averse to his words of consolation, no matter how gentle or caring they were.

At this moment, she was staring out absentmindedly at the Buellen Mountain Path, which consisted of 374 steps. Newfando was a city that...