Never Going Home Again! ~ Since I Was Persecuted, I Should Repay the Favor, or Else I’ll Be Unreasonable ~

really enjoyed the book!!.. hope there is a sequel of the twins

I have never and I mean NEVER understood why omegas are treated so harshly in werewolves stories. The stigma against them is beyond disheartening. I feel so bad for Callista and Dahlia, they don't deserve all the harsh treatment.

The translator dropped this without even finishing the first chapter : (I read the first part via Machine Translation, so expect some errors in my interpretation.

The main character (MC) is the first-born daughter of a poor baron family and is treated like a slave by her mother. (Closer to step-mother, the MC is the daughter of the first wife who was from a high-ranked family but eloped and died in childbirth. The mother is the second wife who had a child a few days later. The father faked the birth records, which is a serious crime for their nobility, and told the mother she had twins, fearing how she would treat the dead first wife's child.) The mother claims that since they are poor, everyone needs to contribute, but the MC is the only one always doing the chores. She is forced to wake up early, do all the cleaning, and often goes days without food, in addition to random abuse. Her little "fraternal twin" sister is treated as a golden child and spoiled rotten.

The father's status is not revealed until the end of the arc. (Apparently, he has been kept away doing work by the "mother's" father for several years. He knows the truth and helped fake the birth records but also deliberately planted the seeds leading to the MC's abuse. There appear to be some complications with the "mother's" birth, meaning she is not technically a noble—possibly the child of a commoner concubine—but was presented as one for marriage. From his reaction when he shows up at the end of the arc, the father has explicitly told the "mother" not to mistreat the MC before.)

In this world, people awaken skills when they turn 12, and nobles are required to have their skills appraised when they awaken. This is because among the nobility, there is a tendency to awaken stronger, dangerous skills that need special training, and there is a smaller chance to awaken new unknown skills. The mother presents the sister as her only child to the testers when they come by after she sent for them. The sister has a strong fire skill requiring training, but their appraisal (and possibly a registry of nobles) reveals she is a twin, which the mother tries to deny. However, the testers demand to test the MC as well. The MC awakened a new skill, and this world handles new or unknown skills intelligently (unlike many other stories where the MC's unknown cheat skill is treated as useless trash). She is taken to the capital so they can investigate the effects of the skill because they want to know if it is useful or dangerous, and they need to be put under guard because other nations might try to kidnap or assassinate them.

(The MC's skill is seed production; she can use magic to create the seed for any plant. This sounds simple but is actually extremely useful and can upset economies. Groups have withheld seeds of highly desired plants in the past to maintain effective monopolies, such as coffee, and her ability gets around that. They test her on extinct species and plants from myth, and she can generate anything she can imagine, even modifying the natures of plants. For example, she is asked to make an out-of-season seed for a duke that is needed to cure a fatal disease his granddaughter contracted, but the seed contains a toxin that causes other lasting issues. Though the girl would live, the MC makes the seed without the toxin and with full medicinal effect.)

After the MC and her sister are taken to the research institute for training, they are separated. Most of the rest of the arc focuses on the MC adjusting to her new "home," while learning to use her skill, and the researchers and staff reacting to her abuse and the habits and damage it caused. (The first day, she gets up early and starts cleaning out of habit, which causes the guards to go on alert, thinking something is wrong. She is also severely malnourished, which made her look years younger and caused major developmental defects, such as a low mana pool and permanently stunted growth. They end up using healing magic on her.)

This becomes a nice slice-of-life story with the researchers becoming more of a family than her own relatives, healing her emotional wounds, and ensuring she never goes back to her family.

During this time, she interacts with her sister twice. (The first time is on a public holiday when they run into each other in some gardens. The sister "orders" the MC to change her clothes and tries to beat her, only to be stopped by some knights. She tries to tell them to release her and that she was trying to "discipline" the MC, but gets annoyed when they don't listen. The second time, the MC is outside in a field and notices a group stepping out for a session of skill control training, including her sister. With escorts, she goes to watch. The sister tries to kill the MC by launching a maxed fireball at her when she was supposed to make a small, controlled fireball. This seems to be a combination of lack of control of her emotions, a sense of pride and superiority, and jealousy over the MC getting better treatment. Those who fail control training have their powers sealed and can lose their status as nobles.)

The arc ends with the MC using her skill to save the life of a duke's granddaughter, who is a relative of the king. As a reward, they give her a permanent place at the research institute, and she is adopted by a relative of her biological mother (the faked birth records meant they thought there was no child they needed to look into, but an encounter with one member has him start to investigate because the MC strongly resembles her biological mother). Her family loses their rank and peerage due to several issues, including faking records and fraud, with the sister's power being sealed.

All in all, it seems like a nice story, with everyone except her family being decent people (though in research mode).