Ryūko closed her eyes, surrendering to the song on her uPod.

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The young woman reflected on the last year, after her father had died almost two years ago. She'd gotten the scholarship to Claymore after winning a regional tournament. But things went downhill from there. [I]Wish Mom'd've told me that those tropes are just fiction[/i], she thought. So many issues, and she still had trouble with her honorifics. But luckily that was one of the only issues left.