The most awkward part about being born as a female was that I no longer had a penis. It was really, really awkward. Like one moment you have a dick and then suddenly it's gone.

I had an identity crisis for a long time during my infancy. But eventually I was able to get over this problem and come to terms with my new body. I was mostly worried about puberty and the incredibly painful periods that I heard women get and I shuddered to think about it.

I like to think of myself as a very adorable little girl. I have short black hair that reaches my small shoulders and I have cute little dimples when I smile. I also have adorable grey eyes that I got from my mother. I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna be pretty smoking hot when I grow up and I'm gonna have all the guys chase after me.

Truthfully, I don't really have friends at all except for one. Because of my early training I have only spent time with my family who I have come to love and the slaves around the mansion.

I learned early on that this city-state practices slavery and I find this detestable. My own father is very cruel to his slaves and punishes them severely for their mistakes. I always try to ease their suffering by being kind to them and sometimes giving them food. My mother doesn't really care about the slaves and just ignores them most of the time.

If you put the slave populace into account then the population of Kyros (the city-state I'm living in) is over 1.5 million people.

Unfortunately if war ever breaks out then they would probably be used as meat shields for the citizens and many would die.

There is one slave boy that is around the same age as I am who's name is Matthew. I was able to quickly manipulate convince him into being my friend and we had a somewhat decent friendship. Although it had to be kept secret because my father would be outraged for befriending a slave.

I occasionally teach Matthew some of the sword techniques that I learn during my free time and teach him how to read and write. It is strictly forbidden to teach a slave how to read and write and I can be punished severely so my teaching sessions have always been done in secret.

Thus a few years have gone by and I have reached 8 years old. During this time I was able to convince my father that I was more suited to the Western Style Swordsmanship and he focused on teaching me that style.

Through hard work I was able to reach the Intermediate level in the Western style when I was 7 and my father had to hire a tutor for me because he was also Intermediate level in the Western style and he had nothing left to teach me. I was able to reach the beginner level in the other three styles as well. My parents thought I was a genius but in reality it was just that I worked really hard in order to become strong.

Today my family threw me a party for becoming 8 years old which marked the halfway point of becoming an adult. So today, after the party my mother brought in a weird looking dish that had the 7 elements inscribed on it. She told me that today we were going to find out what my affinities are and to see if I had any potential for magic.

I had to prick my finger and put a drop of blood onto the dish and my mother began chanting some sort of ritual.  Soon bright light in different colors began to emit from the dish.

My mother was very surprised and exclaimed that I had very high affinity for Earth magic, high affinity for wind magic and average affinity for lightning, water and fire magic. Apparently someone having that many affinities was extremely rare and my parents were overjoyed at my potential. From now on I would be able to learn magic and study the ways of the mage.

The ranking for affinity goes like this: very high, high, average, low and if there is no light shining then you have no affinity at all.

My parents hired multiple tutors for me to learn the various magics that I had the affinity for.  From then on my days became busier and busier as I struggled to learn all the chants and various magic theories that were taught to me by my teachers and the training that was given to me by my father and my Western Style teacher.

My time spent with Matthew decreased as well. But during the view times that I spent with him I was also able to teach him magic. It seems that he was only proficient in lightning magic. But that was only because that was the only magic that he was able to use and I didn't know whether he had more affinities or not. But it looked like he had high affinity for magic because he was able to learn very quickly.

At first when I began my magic lessons my teachers had me chant really long and tedious lines in order to cast a spell. But later on I realized that I didn't need to chant at all! All I needed was a really deep understanding of the element I was using and a really good imagination. For example, fire is just substances in the air that combines with oxygen that causes it to combust.

And time flied by quickly and 2 years passed. I kept it a secret that I can use magic without chanting because I didn't want to draw unnecessary attention. My teachers all called me a genius although I didn't really do much in my opinion and they all praised me which made my parents happy. But my older sister soon became very jealous of me and began to give me hateful glances. My older brother also did the same because of my fast improvement with the sword. My younger brother saw me as an idol and he always followed me around which I thought was really cute and he was able to become good friends with Matthew.

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I reached the Expert rank in Earth magic, Advanced in Wind, water and fire magic and beginner in Lightning magic. But truthfully everyone thinks that I am advanced rank in Earth magic and a rank lower in everything else. I didn't want to cause a commotion and doing this would have made my older siblings hate me even more.

Apparently 10 was the age when children began to go to school. It was pretty late if you ask me. I expected to go to school and live there until I graduated but I found out that it was just like a similar school back on Earth where you learned basic subjects such as math, language, and history. There were no science classes which I figured since this world has magic no one really thought about the scientific aspects of things.

It was my first time actually going out of the house and I was amazed at all of the things I saw on the way to school. There were many large buildings and many different kinds of races that I have never seen before: elves, dwarves, orcs, centaurs, beast men, and others that I didn't know of. I lived about a 10 minute walk away from my school. On the first day of school I met a really cute kid with blonde hair and blue eyes and the first thing he shouted when he was introducing himself to the class was that he was going to be the greatest swordsman in the world! I found this very cute and it kind of reminded me of Zoro from One Piece. His name was Vaan and apparently he trained in some odd sword style that I couldn't bother remembering.

Apparently I was quite famous at my school because of my achievements in magic and Vaan came to challenge me. What surprised me was that he did better than I expected. It seemed like he also reached the Intermediate rank in his sword style like I did with my Western style. But since I knew a variety of other styles which were in the Beginner level I used various techniques which caught him off guard and he was defeated.

He came day after day for a rematch and said something about how I'm his rival now and that soon he will get me to take him seriously or something. Well... I accepted his first 5 challenges and then I realized that the kid is actually a freaking genius and he improved in every single fight. Soon I stopped accepting his challenges and avoided him constantly because I didn't want to lose face and wanted other people to think that I was superior.

It turned out that the training part was to be learned from parents so there was no PE or anything regarding training the body to get stronger because this city-state expected parents to teach their children to become strong.

A year went by quickly and I was gradually getting frustrated in my math class. The only classes that I was interested in were the Language and history, I mean I knew everything and it was a complete waste of time for me so I asked the teacher if I could stop taking classes because I knew everything. Well after pestering him for a long time he eventually conceded and told me that I could stop attending classes if I passed his test.

It was quite simple really. The hardest thing on it was some basic geometry and it was a breeze. Well news got out of it and soon the math teachers gained some interest in me and they sought me out. I really didn't want to cause so much commotion and I regretted acing that test. My parents became even more happier with me while by older siblings began to hate me more and more. They openly mocked me when my parents weren't around and played really annoying pranks on me.

With my mentality being of a 20-something year old I clenched my teeth and ignored their provocations.

Soon the older math students somehow found out of my amazing math skills and they came to me for help. Well, I was in a good mood at that time and I was able to easily explain to them how the pythagorean theorem worked. Apparently I was an amazing teacher that was able to simplify things very easily for them and soon a plethora of students came to me for help in math. I did my best to avoid them but they always managed to find me in the school.

I was eventually tired of this and had my father get me private tutors and I no longer went to school.

Vaan apparently heard about this and came everyday to challenge me to a fight. My parents thought it was cute but I was really getting annoyed by this brat.

I decided that it was time to put and end to his miserable life. I accepted his challenge which seemed to surprise him but he quickly became enthusiastic about it.

After my father sounded for the fight to begin I quickly used Earth magic to send him flying about 30 feet and he was unconscious. I was hoping this taught him a lesson to not mess with me but he came the next day... and the next... until I had to force the servants to not let him in and I was able to completely ignore him.

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