Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: As time passed , Arika started losing her optimism in being an Otome as she learns more about the past , specifically the Dragon King War in which numerous Otomes , many who were friends with each other in Garderobe , fought each other and died .
Simplified: Wanting to find out more about her mother , and to become an otome like her , Arika walks to Garderobe ( a school in Windbloom for training otomes ) .