Against the Current

Making the right choices is not often easy.

Especially when the almost insurmountable flow of society as a whole imposes a vision from which it is difficult to break free.

Thinking or acting against the current then becomes a trial that is at once discouraging, irritating, and sometimes almost ridiculous, yet within which a glimmer of hope continues to exist.

The Espers all carried within them that ounce of light that was simply waiting to be nurtured, like a planted seed waiting for the gentleness of spring to blossom and fully express itself.

In a world of constant acceleration, going against the current means taking the time to reflect on the real consequences of present actions for the future.

A future that is becoming increasingly uncertain, yet whose main outlines have already been shaped by the choices of the past and the decisions yet to come.

The Espers did not succeed in taking the gamble of creating a world that went against the current of today’s values.

The consequences were the decades that led to the Chaos War.

But within this disaster, not only ecological but also civilizational, the hope of seeing a civilization finally emerge that would go against the current of an increasingly individualistic and arrogant movement had been born.

The Seven Shapes had begun to write the first pages of a new era…

One Daily Tale.