Erwin was perhaps one of the youngest university students in the country. He had only graduated from high school the previous year—at an age when most students would still be halfway through their coursework.
But Erwin was not a normal child. He had been raised with the best tutors and had, from an early age, inherited both of his parents' abnormal intellects. It was no exaggeration to say that graduating from high school two years early was actually a vast underperformance of what Bruno expected from the boy.
However, in his defense, the reality was that he had deliberately taken his time growing up—wanting to be of similar age to his peers, and to enjoy his youth while it lasted. Something that felt almost ironic now, given he had been forced to marry at an age younger than most.
