What was blood relation?
To nobles, it was practically the entirety of life itself, and even among commoners, it was an important element forming the smallest unit of society.
There was a reason the phrase ‘bonds ordained by Heaven’ existed.
Bloodline was not something humans could choose.
Only the will of Heaven could connect one bloodline to another.
That was how firm a bond it was.
It was not a connection forged by human hands in the first place, so naturally, it was exceedingly difficult to sever through human power.
So much so that even a mother who had nearly killed her own daughter could not completely cast away her maternal love.
And yet their bond had already been severed once.
The strength of the cord binding the two of them together was, in a sense, proportional to the weight of the violation that had torn them apart.
There was no way even Instructor Mu would not be afraid.
I could understand those feelings.
No.
To be slightly more precise, I ‘had to’ understand them.
Because I believed that was a prerequisite for mediating between a mother and daughter who had been swept…