Fifteen minutes after they started eating breakfast, Ifigenia and Serena finished eating and are now sitting leisurely while the maids begin clearing the table under the supervision of the head maid, Shinon.
As they sit, Ifigenia asks Serena.
"By the way Serena, are you ready for today?"
As she hears her question, Serena asks Ifigenia what she means.
"What exactly do you mean, Mom, if I've packed my things for today?"
"That too, but mainly I'm asking you if you are psychologically ready, you will find yourself in a new environment very different from what you have experienced in Japan, not only in terms of mentality but in terms of education in general,you have to be ready for what you are going to experience today."
As she hears Ifigenia's explanation, Serena begins to sweat and swallows a little,but she is still calm and she says to Ifigenia in a relaxed tone.
"Don't worry mom, I'm completely ready for today both mentally and physically, you have nothing to worry about."
Hearing Serena's response, Ifigenia looks at her suspiciously for a moment.
But as she finds nothing suspicious in her daughter's behavior, she stops to look at her suspiciously and she says to her.
"That's good, I would be worried If you weren't calm, ah, since we're talking about the university, I want to tell you that I contacted two of my friends who will be professors there from this year on, I explained our situation to them and they told me that as soon as you arrive today they will help you adapt to the university."
When Serena hears Ifigenia's words, she frowns a little and she says to Ifigenia.
"Come on mom, I just told you that I will be fine by myself.
"And I know you would be, but I have to remind you that you aren't completely familiar with the language yet, plus the Greeks are completely different from Japanese and you might find it difficult to interact with them."
Hearing ifigenia saying this, Serena can't argue back.
'Although I don't want to admit it, she is right. Except for the few times we came for vocations when I was younger, I was never able to fully interact with anyone from Greece, well almost anyone.'
As Serena is thinking this, ifigenia continues to say.
"Besides, this is only temporary,once you make friends you are not going to need to interact with my friends much."
After ifigenia says this, Serena thinks for a moment and she says to her.
"If it's only temporary, then there is no problem. But don't call them every day and ask them about my progress, ok?"
As ifigenia hears the condition Serena put, she frows for a moment, but then she says.
"Deal, as long as nothing major happens, I won't ask anything about your grades or anything related to your life at the university."
Hearing saying this, Serena smiles and thinks to herself.
'She definitely was planning to monitor me 24/7 while I am at the university. Fortunately, with this agreement I managed to secure some privacy for myself.'
While she thinks that, Serena looks at the time on her smartphone and she gets up from the chair, immediately.
"Goddammit I'll be late! I need to go, see you later mom."
As she says this, Serena comes to ifigenia, kisses her on the cheek and leaves the dining room like a storm.
Seeing her go like that, ifigenia smiles and she thinks to herself.
'That girl is never going to change, but might be better this way, as long as she and Sakura are happy, nothing else matters to me.'
While she thinks that, her smartphone suddenly starts to ring.
'Who might be at this time?'
When ifigenia sees the name of the caller, a surprised expression shows on her face and then she smiles as she picks it up.
"I have a feeling that you will call sounder or later, Effie."
The caller is none other than Effie Karslidou which ifigenia knows for a very long time and also very well.
"Nice to hear your voice again my old friend, we need to meet."
And so just like that two old friends are planning to meet each other, without being aware that their two precious people, her daughter and nephew are going to meet each other, or more precisely they are going to meet each other again.
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At the same time ifigenia makes arrangements for a reunion with her old friend, inside in a Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600, Serena is heading to university, with a female battler, Stephanie as her driver.
Stephanie is a woman in her late 20s, with high height, athletic body with moderate curves, short green hair and red eyes.
In terms of personality is a combination of cecilia and shiro, she is talkative but not much and she is much more easy to interact with but only for work issues and not for personal ones.
She only wears her butler uniform and she is usually around Serena when she is outside, except school and other activities which she is not allowed to participate in.
As Stephanie drives towards the university, Serena sits quietly in the back seat and she is holding the handkerchief she got from all this years ago from a special person she met back then.
'I wonder how you are after all these years and if I meet you again, now I am here. Come to think of it, we met in the middle of the summer, the same season we currently have.'
As Serena thinks that, her mind begins to recall all the memories from 13 years ago.
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North area of Argyropetra,13 years ago.
In a small forest near the farms of the north area of Argyropetra, two sisters from japan one older and one younger were playing in the forest. but the forest was too dense and it was easy to get lost if you didn't know how to navigate and that exactly happened to these two sisters.
"Elder sister Sakura, where are you?"
The little girl is Serena and the elder girl is her elder sister,Sakura.While they were playing hide and seek in this dense forest they got separated and the little sister got lost.
"Come on, this is not fun anymore, I want to go home."
"I don't want to be here, sniff, want to go home, sniff, mommy!!"
As little Serena is about to give up and starts crying, suddenly she hears noises coming from the bush behind her.
[Rustle..Rustle…Rustle]
Thinking it's her sister, little Serena shouts towards the bush.
"Elder sister, is that you over there!?"
But little Serena received no answer, curious about what it's in the brush, she started to go closer to it, slowly and hesitantly.
As she got closer, the noises from the brush got louder too.
[Rustle..Rustle…Rustle]
And when she got close enough, s black shadow jumped out from the brush.
[Swiss…]
"Gyaaaa!!"
Being scared from before and surprised from what happened just now, Serena started screaming.
As she was screaming she tried to run backwards but behind her is a tree with its roots protruding, the little serena tripped over the roots and she fell down to ground.
But the fall was very hard and resulted in injuring her knee.
"Ouch, that hurt, sniff, sniff, buhu."
Because from the pain and the fear, little Serena closed her eyes tightly, without seeing what that shadow was.
"Meow?"
Then she heard the meowing of a cat and she slowly opened her eyes and in front of her was a small black cat.
"Meow,meow?"
The cat then started meowing a few more times as if she was asking the girl if she's okay?
The little Serena who sees the cats, relaxes and begins to cry.
"No, I am not okay, sniff, I got separated from my sister,then I got lost and now I got hurt, because of you!."
"Meow."
As if the cat understands the words of the little serena, begins to feel sad and meows with a sad tone to her as if she apologizes to.
Little Serena hearing the sad meowing of the cat regrets her actions and says to the cat.
"I am sorry for before, it's not your fault, it's my fault, I wasn't paying enough attention to where I was going."
"Meow, Meow,"
The cat it's happy that little Serena forgives her and she meows happily.
[Rustle..Rustle…Rustle]
But she stops suddenly when a louder noise is coming from the bush.
"Eeeeee!!"
"Meow, hhhh!!"
Little Serena, still on the ground, begins to scream, meanwhile the cat goes between the brush and her and she meows threateningly towards the bush.
The noises get louder and louder until a human shadow is coming out of the brush.
"Ah, there you're Kyro, what are you doing so far inside the forest?"
The person who came out of the brush is a boy around the age of little Serena.
He has a medium height, fat body, short brown hair and brown eyes.
He is wearing blue shorts, white t-shirt and red shoes.
As the boy looks at kyro his gaze follows the direction which the kyro came from and he sees little Serena laying down on the ground.
"Hey, are you okay?"
When little Serena hears the voice of the boy, she thinks that she's dreaming, but then the boy talks again and she snaps out of the confusion.
"Hi, my names is Stathis Karslidis."
And just like that, Serena meets Stathis for the first time.