It's not because there wasn't something else I was good at. Back home, if you can't afford a trade school and you don't have the aptitude to use magic, you either become a soldier or you make your living using less honest means.

I got lucky. That's it. But my point is that I've always wanted to be more. I hated the way my country was run, hated the damn royals for making it so only the rich could amount to anything. Hell, it's probably why it was so easy for everyone to believe I was capable of mur--...

...[He stops himself and shoots Shiro a look. Maybe he wouldn't piece it together.]