Serizawa Edelweiss

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One of the seven lovers of Haruko.

## Story

### Fear of Men

She was born in a country in northern Europe. Her mother came from a wealthy family that she inherited quite a large share in a multimillion company where she’s part of its Board of Directors while her father was a successful man of his chosen career.

However, around six years after she came into this world, her father got into an accident, leading to his untimely death.

Two years later, one day after returning from her primary school, her mother introduced a man to her and told her that she’s going to marry him.

Compared to her father that’s amiable and kind with an always positive nature where he could even smile through a problem, her mother’s new husband was the opposite. He’s brusque, always snarling and ultimately a fake person who would act like a kind smiling dog in front of her mother but not in front of her.

After a year passed, perhaps urged by her mother, that man, her stepfather, began with his effort to get closer to her in the hopes of being regarded as her new father. And not even a month into his effort to get close to her as a father, he already lost his patience. He snapped at her, almost hitting her.

Because of that incident, her mother finally listened to her. She forbade that man to approach her and let her go back to her quiet life. But little did she know that when she’s not looking, that man continued trying and every time he would fail, his frustration over it accumulated.

Until one day, when her mother couldn’t go home for a night, she was alone with her stepfather. And it was the time when his frustration finally overflowed. Because of her continued indifference, that man beat her. A child.

When he came to his senses, he panicked that she would tell her mother about it. So instead of asking for forgiveness to Edel, he threatened that he’d always watch her and if her mother became aware of that incident, he would kill them both before escaping.

Upon thinking that she could also lose her mother, Edel agreed to not tell her mother about it and she just cried herself to sleep. Perhaps thinking he now had the power over the child, Edel became the outlet for his frustrations. He started physically abusing her.

She escaped when her grandmother came to visit. It was supposed to be a short visit. To check on her granddaughter that her late son left behind.

That night, her stepfather actually tried to molest her. No, not just molest... He’s about to take her by force. As for what went through his head, Edel also had no idea. But that night firmly rooted her fear. Her fear of men.

At oone point she fainted and was with her grandmother when she wake up, since then her stepfather disappeared and her grandmother to her to Japan. That was around five years ago.

Unfortunately, because of another accident, her grandmother died before she entered high school.

### High School

She has a feear of men. Haruko asked Ruki to help her with it and he did. After a some time she started hugging him every time she got a chance to. Since then she improved in her interaction with men in general.

While one of their session, Edel revealed that the origin of her fear of men is her stepfather.

## Trivia

* Has a fear of men.
* Her mother is from a country in northern Europe, that's also where she was born.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 607
2. ↑ Chapter 608
3. ↑ Chapter 605