Esmeralda Everleigh was one of the many heroines Azel considered unnecessary stress.
Why not?
She acted tough off-screen, always trying to assert dominance in conversations, and even when she confronted someone face-to-face she carried herself like a noble lioness.
But the moment you gave her the same treatment, the mask crumbled.
She shriveled, became meek, and worse… clumsy.
Honestly, how did a heroine even die while trying to brew potions?
Azel couldn't wrap his head around it. He remembered vividly from the game: her untimely demise came not in battle, not at the hands of a villain, but in her own laboratory when her potion experiments literally exploded.
It was ridiculous.
This was a dark game, how the hell did you die like a slice-of-life character?
But if there was one thing that made her memorable besides her off-kilter survival rate, it was her glasses.
Without them, her vision fogged into blurs and smears.
