82 Karen Miller 4

Luke took out his marble to report this incident to the higher up people in the first district.

Immediately, Christopher stood in the middle of my room. Christopher's face didn't age a bit even when the last time we met was when we graduated from kindergarten.

Christopher wore a formal black suit that suited the occasion of going to a ball rather than a ordinary middle-class home.

"Is she downstairs?" Christopher asked us.

Both Luke and I nodded as we led Christopher to Karen.

"You brought Karen another prince!" Karen excitedly exclaimed.

I did have to admit that I have never seen anyone in school that was not good-looking. They were beautiful enough that they could easily become celebrities in the other districts.

"Can you touch this Karen?" Christopher wasted no time to try to measure the amount of mana Karen possessed.

Christopher took out a white glowing orb.

When Karen touched the pretty orb with no hesitation, the orb remained relatively the same.

"Barely possesses any mana," Christopher mumbled the results.

Christopher snapped his figures, and almost immediately, time has gone to its rightful place as my aunt was inside my living room just like before time went back.

My aunt gasped from Christopher's sudden appearance while Evan's jaw dropped.

"Hello, I am known as Christopher de Welmington and I am here regarding taking your daughter to the second district," Christopher chose to keep his introduction short.

"What!" Both my aunt and I shouted.

"Your daughter is talented, so it is advised to admit her into a middle-ranking school in the second district. However, she needs to stay at the dorms there and enrollment will have to start immediately." Christopher sighed like he was annoyed from having to explain every single thing.

"Can I think about this?" My aunt worried about leaving Karen alone in the second district.

"Ma'am, your daughter possesses a great talent that is endangering other people's lives while she stays longer into this district," Christopher started to pressure my aunt.

Was this what my parents went through when they had to give me up at the young age of four? Maybe my parents didn't initially want me to attend school in the first district even though it would lead me into a brighter future.

"But-"

"Maybe we should ask Karen about this," I interrupted Christopher when he tried to interject again.

We all looked at Karen as she suddenly felt afraid that all the attention was on her.

"Do you want to live in the second district? You won't be able to meet mommy anymore since you'll be at school all the time," I told Karen, hoping she would be able to keep her childhood by rejecting the offer.

"Karen doesn't want to go," Karen whimpered at the thought of separating from her family.

"But Karen will be able to become more like your cousin and Luke if you go," Christopher used her admiration for Luke to his advantage.

"Then maybe," Karen started to falter as she imagined encountering more princes in the upper district.

Karen had heard from her friends that princes and princesses lived in the upper districts. Apparently Karen could meet them all the time if she got the chance to visit.

At the sound of Karen's hesitation, Christopher urged my aunt to complete the transfer forms for Karen to live in the second district.

My aunt knew that Karen would have a much brighter and better future in the second district. However, it was clear she didn't want to give up her baby daughter to fend for herself at such a young age.

But my aunt knew that these kind of opportunities almost never came by. My aunt signed the form while trying to hold her tears back as she knew she would not see her daughter for a while after today.

"Thank you for your cooperation," Christopher bowed to her.

With a snap of his fingers, both Karen and Christopher immediately disappeared like they have never existed in this house.

"What just happened?" I asked Luke angrily.

My aunt and Evan looked tiredly at each other as they hugged one another to comfort themselves with the loss of Karen.

"Karen now gets to study at the second district," Luke showed the results of reporting the incident to the first district.

"But did you really have to seperate Karen from her family at such a young age?" I argued back as I thought how Karen would suffer from the transition.

"But you went to the first district at four," Luke pointed out that I was separated from my parents at a much earlier age.

"But family don't do this to each other!" I tried to get the point across.

It was common sense that family members didn't report each other unless it was a great crime. Especially when faced with the decision to separate young children from their parents!

Even when I felt no familial relations to my cousins and my aunt since it was my first time meeting them today, I inherently knew it was not the right thing to do.

"Even though it endangers all the lives of the people living in the third district?" Luke coldly responded.

"Family try to protect each other even when the world is against them. Didn't you say that family was special as well?" I started to shout when my point wasn't getting across.

It was like Luke didn't consider them as family.

"Do you even consider my family as part of your family?" I asked Luke harshly.