Chapter 762: Past

Chapter 762: Past Although Yasushi's grandfather was highly respected in the world of incense, his son, who is also Yasushi's father, was a complete failure when it came to incense making.

Yasushi's grandfather had only one son, Yasushi's father, so he had high hopes for him, wanting him to inherit the family's legacy. Therefore, from a very young age, he began teaching him the art of incense making.

However, Yasushi's father had no talent in this regard. No matter how hard Yasushi's grandfather tried to teach him, he couldn't grasp the essence of incense making.

Yasushi's father initially had no great ambitions, and he didn't mind inheriting the family business as his father wished. However, after countless failures, he lost all interest in incense making.

With the family's wealth, Yasushi's father soon became a wastrel.

After being disappointed by his son repeatedly, Yasushi's grandfather gave up on the idea of his son inheriting the family business. Instead, he single-handedly upheld the family's reputation in the incense world.

Then, Yasushi was born.

With Yasushi's birth, all of Yasushi's grandfather's hopes were placed on his grandson.

As Yasushi grew up, he didn't disappoint his grandfather. Unlike his inept father, Yasushi showed great talent in incense making.

Because of his deep affection for Yasushi, Yasushi's grandfather didn't have strong feelings for the two granddaughters born later. He even had a certain dislike for the mother of the two girls.

The mother of Miyuki and Yukino came from a humble background and was married into the family primarily because of her exceptional beauty, especially evident in Miyuki, who was the most beautiful woman Yuga had ever seen.

Despite his lack of fondness, Yasushi's grandfather didn't oppose his son's decision to marry the mother of Miyuki and Yukino. He already had an outstanding successor in Yasushi, so he didn't care what his son did or whom he married.

From a young age, Miyuki developed a strong interest in incense making. Whenever her classmates praised the fame of her family's incense, she felt immensely proud.

Therefore, she expressed her desire to learn incense making alongside her brother Yasushi several times. However, her grandfather firmly refused her every time, even ordering her not to go near the incense making workshop.

Unlike her strict grandfather, Yasushi had a deep affection for his delicate little sister. He secretly taught Miyuki some basic incense making techniques and knowledge behind their grandfather's back.

At that time, Miyuki really admired her gentle brother.

Miyuki always thought that her grandfather's refusal to let her learn incense making was due to her lack of excellence. So, she studied diligently, always showing her best side to her grandfather.

Miyuki was indeed outstanding. At school, she was the most praised child.

However, her grandfather never gave her more than a passing glance.

Miyuki felt frustrated. She believed that she wasn't good enough and that if she could be more like her brother, her grandfather would surely allow her to learn incense making.

Miyuki had a genuine passion for incense, and she considered herself fortunate to be born into such a prestigious incense making family.

Later on, tragedy struck when Miyuki's parents had an accident and both passed away. Miyuki and her younger sister, Yukino, had no choice but to be raised by their grandfather.

Even though their grandfather took charge of their upbringing, he rarely paid any attention to the sisters. They mostly lived with the family's servants and sometimes went for days without seeing their brother or grandfather.

Despite this, Miyuki's love for incense remained strong. She studied the classifications of plants and flowers needed for incense making, learned about the different types of incense and their uses, and so on.

However, she could only touch the surface, even the knowledge Yasushi secretly shared with her was quite basic.

She yearned to learn the family's incense making techniques, so she worked even harder to impress her grandfather.

But her grandfather had grown impatient with her.

Once, Miyuki brought a rare book on exotic plants and herbs to ask her grandfather for advice, but he angrily knocked the book to the ground and scolded her harshly.

Her grandfather told her that she could never be like her brother and learn the family's true legacy of incense making.

At that moment, young Miyuki, looking at her grandfather with his stern gaze, didn't know how to describe her feelings. She simply picked up her book quietly and left her grandfather's study.

From that day onwards, all the servants in the house and her sister, Yukino, knew that Miyuki never touched anything related to incense again.

Miyuki remained the same cheerful and lovely girl.

No longer touching incense, Miyuki began to study and train in matters related to being a Pokémon Trainer. She told the people in the house that she wanted to become a Pokémon Trainer.

The servants and her sister, Yukino, thought this was quite normal. If one couldn't be an incense maker, becoming a Trainer was a good alternative.

Although her grandfather didn't allow her to pursue incense making, he never deprived the sisters of financial resources. Their family was wealthy.

With enough money, Miyuki could obtain excellent Pokémon and abundant resources.

What surprised everyone was that Miyuki had a natural talent for being a Trainer. Her strength continued to grow, and she became a renowned Pokémon Trainer prodigy, even at school.

However, one day, her grandfather suddenly told her that she was not allowed to continue being a Trainer.

Miyuki was shocked, but she obediently followed her grandfather's command. Deep down, she knew her grandfather was afraid she would threaten her brother's position.

The influence of a powerful Trainer could be terrifying.

From that day on, Miyuki remained the same cheerful Miyuki, but her brother, Yasushi, felt that her smile toward him had changed somehow. S~eaʀᴄh the novёlF~ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

He believed that his grandfather was in the wrong and tried to persuade him, but his grandfather scolded him. He couldn't change his grandfather's mind or stop his actions, and he felt guilty for what was happening to Miyuki.

It wasn't until Miyuki was ten years old that she disappeared from home with the few Pokémon her grandfather had kept hidden.

No one knew where Miyuki had gone. Yasushi tried to find her, using his family's connections, but there were no leads.

Their grandfather had also searched, but Yasushi knew he wasn't putting much effort into it. He disliked Miyuki and even saw her as a threat because she was exceptionally talented for a girl.

Later, Yasushi discovered that his grandfather had intentionally raised Yukino to be a wastrel, fearing that she might become another Miyuki.

Yukino didn't know what had happened to her sister specifically but felt that after Miyuki left, their grandfather had become much kinder to her.

For a girl who had lost both parents, her grandfather's care was something she couldn't refuse.

It's unclear if Yukino inherited her father's penchant for idleness, but she quickly became a reckless fool.

Yasushi had warned Yukino in secret, but she had everything she wanted: food, drink, and endless spending money. She was content with her life and paid no attention to Yasushi's warnings.

Yasushi knew that everything his grandfather did was for him, but he couldn't agree with his grandfather's methods. He felt deeply sorry for his two sisters.

When Miyuki returned home at the age of sixteen, six years after she had left, their family underwent earth-shaking changes.