He offered to help her find employment and home, and she refused and left on her own. She thought if the princess could find all that on her own, she could and should also.
The beginning reminded me a bit of an episode I watched recently of Delicious Party Precure, where one of the main characters had zero relationship with her parents who were rarely at home.
If I remember correctly, they said the tribes were originally founded by the first generation tribes, like you would found a village, colony, or army, but they were not their descendents.
The hidden villages were the powers manifest, were their decedents separate from the tribes. They alone...
She is a first year middle schooler. She has 6 more years of school before she enters college and is considered an adult. She is 12 at the beginning and straight out of elementary school.
Middle school is also when puberty starts. It is the time children start to become seriously interested in...
The age gap is kind of the whole point. Without the gap and student/teacher relationship, she would not be "tested". The author would have to call it "Kusanagi-sensei Has a Girlfriend."
Why is everyone continually surprised? She is a first year middle schooler. That is 12 to 13 at the beginning of the year. She has never been anything more than a first year middle schooler.
And 12 is not that young. I remember when I was 12. That might not be old enough to know better, but at...