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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon
Ah, see? There we go. Maria tantrums to get what she wants because she knows there's no other way.
Even if Rosa hits her a little, she'll usually give in to avoid further embarrassment.
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Mind you, Maria quite definitely is a prodigy otherwise. See the scene about teppou/raifuru on the test. Notice that this happened in the first grade of elementary school when she was 6. She was ahead of the school program by at least a year, possibly much more.
Unfortunately, in Japan in particular, a child prodigy is seen as a problem even more than in other countries, and her way to be one is also incompatible with the restrictive school grading system - she is smarter and better educated but can't get better grades for it. Rosa is embarrassed of her child being
different rather than of her child being actually inferior to others, and imposes standards not so much strict as nonsensical, which she partly inherits from her own childhood,
(which were more or less sensible for an ojousama from a rich family that Rosa was but are completely silly for a city apartment dweller with a lone mother) and partly twists into a complete mess on her own.
But if we're to be detectives, judging Rosa is not our job. What we need is to wrestle facts out of this messy narrative.
