A Mistake of the Past 4

Luis grew up with the thought that his mother hated him. He thought that because he was frail, his mother chose not to indulge with him. She was always out for work, and he was not allowed to ever step outside of the house. Although Leonel was there to tell him otherwise, he wanted to feel his mother’s acknowledgment.

He was five years old when he was able to walk, but he already has consciousness when he was four. He’d always cursed his lack of mobility, blaming it for his mother’s cold shrug. But even after he could move around, his mother showed no sign of gratefulness. She did pat him on the head once in a while, but she still spent her time working.

“It’s for your own good, Luis,” Leonel would say, rubbing the back of Luis. “I tell you what, how about we train?”

Even when he could walk, Luis seemed to have no luck in trying to wield his shadow. Leonel said that a shadow could only be summoned when the wielder had accumulated energy to control it. But the