“Once I’m all grown up, I’ll be big and tall, and strong enough to protect the one I love… I hope?”

Those were what you used to hear Epel say from time to time back to when you still lived in the country side, in Harveston village. But after a few years you spent in the city, you decided to move back in the village, in the house your parents kept for you.

And of course, Epel was still there to take after the family farm business-

How amusing it was to stand in front of him again- You changed a lot! But he didn’t.

Still small, looking all pretty and feminine. Despite him hating it.