Find the One Who Abandoned Me

The one I loved, and who loved me — Isaac Esteban.

He, who had been so utterly devoted to her, suddenly betrayed Calliope. He claimed he had found true love in Clementia, the saint who wandered the land in search of a hero to defeat the Demon King. Abandoning her, he left, chosen as the warrior who would vanquish the Dark Lord, who returns every 500 years.

Foolish Calliope waited for him.
She told herself that if he ever came back — even just once — she would cling to him.
She still couldn’t forget the way his eyes once looked at her with such love.

And so, a year later, he returned.
Dead — leaving behind nothing but his name, without even a body.

She spent a year consumed by sorrow, living in what felt like hell. In the end, she climbed the bell tower, intending to throw herself into the parade below — the one celebrating the first anniversary of the Demon King’s defeat.

Foolish Calliope.
Stupid Calliope.

She couldn’t forget, couldn’t abandon the man who had so easily abandoned her.

And so, she abandoned her life instead.

Yet when she opened her eyes again, she had returned —
To her childhood, to the days before she was re-adopted into the marquess’s household.
To a time when she had nothing at all.