Matteo Solcren Ferreira was sitting, looking at his wife who was slowly drinking her wine, her appearance was beautiful with silver eyes and black hair with golden streaks, Titanza Solcren Ferreira.
"Do you know why I was so disappointed in Enrico to the point of feeling ashamed?"
"Because he was a disappointment, at least that's my reason."
Their marriage was only business so they had no feelings for each other, each taking care of the child that pleased them the most, making the potential grow since both wanted to strengthen their families and expand their city.
"He was born with completely golden hair."
"And what does that have to do with your disappointment with him?"
"A family from our family many years ago with golden hair appeared, turning our family 700 years ago into one of the strongest in Floravita."
He didn't understand where she wanted to go with this, having a different hair color didn't mean strength at least in this world. The only vision he could think of was that it must be something from Floravita, but to learn about his wife's territory was foolish, after all, just like her, he only cared about Vesparello territory, his homeland.
"In our family, most of the time the more golden the hair was, the more potential it demonstrated."
"You said most of the time, so there were weak ones, weren't there?"
"Yes, there were, but never has anyone else's hair or any other family member's hair in years been completely golden, at least since that ancestor of ours."
Now he understood why when she saw his golden hair for the first time her eyes shone so much, but as the years passed it turned into disdain for their son.
"I understand, your disappointment must have been great."
"Yes, it was… but it seems that I expected too much without giving him time to evolve, thinking he should break any rule as young as possible, even stopping in the first weeks of teachings without giving him a chance."
He didn't care about these things, he himself was disappointed with him because he was the weakest potential among his children, so he simply focused on the one who demonstrated first.
"But it seems that he has potential, it just took time to appear, so even if I hate to admit it, I was wrong to discard him so quickly."
"You are right about that, but I don't think even if we had given him more time, we would have cared about what happened to him."
"You are also right."
If it took him so long to awaken this potential, then the fault would be his for not striving enough to meet their expectations. Yes, they were not good parents and they admitted it.
"From the words I heard from our parents, then he really did become stronger, are you sure, Platina?"
The one who said this was the eldest son of the family, who was standing without any expression on his face after just arriving with two smaller figures, his two daughters. He wasn't much of a questioner, which meant his curiosity was high, and his appearance was his father's hair color with his Father's skin tone.
"Yes, brother Valerio, I saw with my own eyes how he changed."
"Interesting…"
"Why are you suddenly so interested in that idiot?"
The two turned and saw their younger sister with a face of disbelief, her appearance was like their father's but with larger golden streaks in her hair than her mother's. The two knew that among the three she was the one who most despised Enrico since she grew up seeing how their parents ignored his existence and called him useless.
"That's why we want to see with our own eyes how he changed, Taíra."
"You don't believe me?"
"Of course we do, especially when we saw that he reached rank 7."
They had also heard about everything he did in the academy, surviving a dangerous dungeon that killed several students, rising in rank quickly, defeating Lan Arvo, fighting Princess Elowyn — quite a lot in such a short time, so they were surprised.
"If he managed to reach rank 7 having that kind of potential, then being first for me won't be a big deal."
"He may have awakened his potential later, little sister, this has happened before with other families."
"I doubt it, and why are you defending him, big sister? You know how useless he is."
"It's because I saw with my own eyes his change."
Taíra sat down looking sulky at Platina's words, she didn't believe it because if it were true then her parents had been wrong, and that was impossible — for them to be wrong.
"Let's see then…"
Platina sat beside her calmly while Valerio remained standing looking at the door with that expression their mother called dead, but what fault did he have if his father raised him that way.
"You see, you can't even know what your son is thinking by the way you raised him."
"First of all, you're not that different from me, and second, it's better this way because thinking too much only gets in the way."
"You were wrong on the first point, we have the difference that I prefer to know my daughter's emotions so she hides nothing."
It seemed they started arguing again, it was always like this, the two always seemed to be doing business and one of those businesses was the way they were raised.
For the two of them, they felt envy that Taíra was raised in a better way than all of them, but they were sure it was because of the potential she demonstrated. Before the argument could continue, the door opened with one of their guards with a surprised face escorting two people.
"The young master has returned home, my lords."
Upon entering, Enrico saw all four in the room looking surprised at the huge difference in his appearance compared to before.
'This is going to be troublesome.'