While Charlie celebrated Nanako's enlightenment with delight, he could only feel dismay at Vera's inability to attain enlightenment.

Someone up there decided to bless Vera with the perfect face, five hundred years of life, the sharpest of wit, and unmatched determination.

If anything, such gifts made her appear to be the gods' favorite, but that only made Charlie feel they were unfair to her all the more.

After all, she could have grown beyond perfection.

If she couldn't attain enlightenment