58 A shadow from the past

"About his origin, it's a little strange..." The man hesitated a little.

'As expected,' thought the woman, clearly aware that it couldn't be simple.

"The information we received while researching Victor's origins is absurd. This man can be described as enigmatic. As a child he was a genius who might appear once in a century, at the age of ten he was already in the middle stage of the Initial Stage(1), but beyond that...

"Did something happen?" - Asked the woman.

The man nodded his head.

"At twelve, he broke through to the late stage, but after that, he suddenly stopped cultivating, spending all his time on his infatuation with a certain girl…"

The woman thought she was going deaf.

'Developing a crush on a girl at the age of twelve.' She had no words to describe it...