Water hero, Re Celestis; her mother worked as a courtesan.
A courtesan can also be called a ‘high-class prostitute’.
It is mostly a job where you spend a night with a man, but a courtesan is on a different level from a normal prostitute.
If needed, they can head to venues where the nobles and celebrities gather, utilize their refined beauty, read poems, dance, and at times, even speak of politics, and gather attention from the public.
Being a customer of a courtesan is a pride for men.
There’s no regrets for the men buying the best of women, and rather, they take that as an act to raise their own value, and they make public the fact that they passed an enjoyable night.
That is the love and beauty culture that goes around in the Water capital of Hydra Ville.
Courtesans are a part of the representative cultures of the Water capital, and it transmitted throughout the whole world like charming poetry.
Of course, there’s ranks within the courtesans as well, and the highest of courtesans had popularity and respect that could rival that of the Water Founder.
In order to embrace such a woman, it would obviously require the money, but money wasn’t the wall. Even if you were to prepare the money, if you don’t have a high status, you wouldn’t even be paid the attention and be driven out immediately.
It meant that you can’t get a night with them by simply winning the lottery.
Even if you are to gather money and family status, unless the man himself has personal ability, they won’t have a chance either.
Only the best of men were able to spend a night with the best of polished beauties.
The courtesan culture was so weaved into Hydra Ville that breaking that unwritten law would be unforgivable.
The beauty of the courtesans and the pleasure they provide was the pride of the Water capital.
Within all that, the best of men had bought the best of courtesans.
The name of the man is Re Azul.
The second son of a foreign trade company that has been going for four generations. In his young ages, he rode ships, overcame stormy seas, forced his way in storms, and had moved around many a trade harbour.
His eyes to see a business opportunity and his moral of never betraying trust had increased the trust their parents had for him when he was in his mid twenties by several times, and he had climbed to being a prominent figure in Hydra Ville.
At that time, that man had fallen in love with the courtesan that is said to be the ultimate supremacy.
That beauty was compared to that of a mythical Goddess, and her whole body was decorated with gems that were collected from the whole world.
The men of Hydra Ville -counting the Water Founder- were all seeking her. In the end, the only one that she herself allowed was the merchant that had personal achievements and popularity, Re Azul.
The passionate love of the best courtesan and the best young merchant had created rumors, and with that inspiration, many poems and plays were born.
The time the love of the two had flared up was without doubt the hottest and sweetest time of Hydra Ville.
But there was an end to the love of those two.
A chance to polish his retainers had come as fast as a bird falling.
With the retirement of the previous Founder, there was now a vacant spot at the highest of positions in the Water Church.
The retired Founder had personally nominated Azul as his successor.
The condition the previous Founder gave to Azul was that he should marry his daughter and make a family tie between their households.
With this as the condition, Re Azul became Ru Azul.
But he had no intentions of letting go of his true love.
Separating a political marriage and your true love that is your mistress was something that was common within the high positions of Hydra Ville.
Azul was already thinking of receiving the courtesan, who he had spent many a passionate night with, as a concubine, but at that time, she had already decided to leave the Water capital on her own will. Like a feather drifting onto the ocean.
An intelligent woman like her that had climbed up to the summit of courtesans already knew.
For Azul, who had a weak position due to marrying into his wife’s family, he wouldn’t be allowed a willful action like taking in a concubine.
In order to protect her own pride and the fame of the man she loves, the intelligent woman had drawn back on her own —while still having inside her womb the proof of their passionate love.
With the passing of ten months, she had given birth to that proof and was named as Celestis.
Celestis and her mother were living at a village pretty faraway from Hydra Ville.
Celestis was raised by a mom only, but her mom was once a woman that shone in the noble’s society at the Water capital.
Even if she has parted from that position, she hasn’t degraded, and was working at a school there. Many praised her as an iron lady, and while pouring the best of loves to her own daughter, she gave strict education to her.
It could be said that the foundation for Celestis becoming an idol hero had been cultivated here.
In time, maybe because of her linage or her education, Celestis had been raised more intelligent than the average, and obviously began to question her own birth.
Everyone had a mom and dad, and yet, she didn’t know the face of her own father.
She only had a mother.
She had never hated her kind and strict mother, but she had the nature of getting the answers for the questions she has. Probably an hereditary trait from both of her parents.