A Pure Heart

The meeting between Cha Cha, our platypus friend, and Guruko, a young Esper from the Valley of the Wind, was the spark that revealed the compassion buried within him.

Guruko was pure and innocent, which gave her a charming beauty.

This contrasted with Cha Cha, who had little by little lost sight of that light, curled up in a corner of his mind, yet still there, waiting to emerge once more.

He then began to reflect more deeply on what he had become, to put his personal journey into perspective, and he understood that the path he was on would bring nothing but sorrow to Guruko.

So he decided to change, because seeing the tears of this pure and innocent young girl must not become a recurring scene.

He had hurt her, and he wanted to prevent it from happening again.

And for that, he had finally understood that he needed to work on himself.

He had been fortunate to have had a path neither too easy nor too difficult, which had allowed him, over time, to develop the other elements of his StarDust.

And he realized that it awaited only one thing: that he develop his element of wind, so that his true StarDust, which had remained incomplete until then, could finally appear…

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