My Magical Career at Court: Living the Dream After My Nightmare Boss Fired Me from the Mages' Guild! Volume 4

It was clear that honesty didn’t pay. Truth and justice were nothing in the face of money and power. This world was a rotten place, and bloated villains had made it that way. Knowing that, I was determined to follow in my teacher’s footsteps. As an ally of justice, I would fulfill his final wish.

Justice only prevailed in fairy tales. The truth was that the most unscrupulous people were often the ones who enjoyed the greatest prosperity. No matter how much one prayed to the heavens, those prayers might never be answered. The world was full of pain and injustice.

I carefully thought through each aspect of these complex ideas, like I was untying a tight knot. I kept telling myself not to get worked up or expect to understand everything in one go. I reminded myself to work bit by bit and take my time to get to grips with all the information. Finally, I saw why I’d been unable to understand it at the beginning.

Try to break it into smaller pieces. Work methodically to work out each part one by one. Do that, and you can close in on the right answer, no matter how difficult the problem is.

As somebody who had lived only within a limited group, Esther instinctively tried to protect the values of elven society. Simultaneously, it made her want to shun alternative values. Anything she didn’t understand caused her discomfort. For her own peace of mind, she would reject anything outside her worldview.
By making an effort to respect and embrace other cultures, she has learned to see things that I do not. She wanted to teach me about what she has found.