(Flashback - ???? Years Ago)
Inside the establishment's one of its private rooms, a silver-haired male wearing hoodie jacket grabs a bowl of kropek at the comments made by one of the netizens regarding the debate of the strongest swordsman character towards the swordsman being weaker than any one of The Warlords of 13 Seas.
The strongest swordsman character from this manga, The Pirate's Two Piece Legacy, was his favorite character from his childhood and inspiration of himself taking up the way of the sword. Heck even that red-haired swordsman character, the rival who was one of Warlords of the 13 Seas, Youko, were also one of his inspirations as a swordsman.
But why can't the otakus shut the fuck up about that matter, that issue, and watch the story unfold? This was like shipping wars or fights towards the pairing any of the characters.
He closed the tab of this forum, it's a bit too nerdy, and a waste of time.
Practicing swordsmanship as one of his hobbies was a norm. It's an alternative for firearms in the battlefield, and part of the life. His parents encouraged it to use firearms. That's what was it was expected from being part of the Clan, and as a sword cultivator. Good thing feats of going beyond Mach 10 without magic alone in this world of Astralis for speed, was a normal if one's a cultivator, not the "normals". Guns, missiles, and tanks were nothing in the eyes of a cultivator. Though sickness and ailment would be a hindrance as what would his ancestor, the father of Samario Catapang, Alfonso Catapang, say bluntly…unless there's a way to negate the conditions of the human body, it would be like those immortality cultivation stories. The "normals" bluntly had it worst than the long-lived cultivators though because…they're normal humans and non-holders of an item that made cultivator a cultivator.
The Grand Western Blue Sea itself was…a bit disappoinment for the way things were in actual reality, and social cohension, followed by most pro-Veridicia politicians defending Veridicia and favoring the Veridicans and its own 'state' as if they were 'democratically elected' by the weary Western voters of their respective sovereign countries to be the mouthpieces of a foreign country than to do the job of representing their constitutents who elected them the first place in the elections whilst the East having years of tradition, history, and evolution, remained growing with many more techniques, tested methologies and procedures, and most of all, inventions and concepts born there including [The United Alliance of Eastern Continent States].
Currently, the world of Astralis itself was on the stage of a Cold War with on-going proxy wars outside the Eastern Grand Lane started by United States of Ethalica and the Ethalican neo-colonialist interventions, followed by The State of Veridicia after the 'establishment' of a Veridican state on 1947, and launched attacks against the native Mityaraians and stealing the Mityarian lands in Central Aroya, and other countries, those occupied zones subjected to the Veridican apartheid, which to this day still on-going with more Veridican settlers occuping the stolen lands and properties of the former owners they massacred, another violation of League of Nations International Resolution 24, makes it more appalling for having a foreign puppeteer that violated sovereignty.
Settler colonialism, and The State of Veridicia, not that he should speak of in the public eye but his clan, his family, told him about the long game, the plans for the future, the new world order without the Veridicans around and erasing the existence of the Verdican sacred texts throughout the entire Astralis and the archives itself.
Of all the human races in this world of Astralis, that one with having those particular genetic markers and traits, the Veridicans, the late 6th Prime Minister of 'The State of Veridicia', Menachim Kohen, one of the typical 'Founding Fathers of the State of Veridicia' was more questionable ever when the late Prime Minister, Menachim Kohen, before he became a Prime Minister, led a Eldrothainist terrorist attack on King Davi Hotel bombing on year 1946 that had The United Kingdom of Raumathan and Eveden, one of countries found in The Grand Western Blue Sea, marked [The Founder of the Central Ministry of Special Activities and Operations Ministry], as a terrorist whose disappearance during his prime minstership, to this day, remained unknown and unsolved in public records.
Regarding these subversive parasites with these trademark dangerous characteristics, he'll have to 'play it safe' at all times since they were responsible of the proxy wars, and had funding through the Veridican fronts and infiltrators in the sectors on those Veridican penetrated parts of Astralis. The conspiracy theory about them and their so-called 'state', of them responsible for assassinating the former president of the United States of Ethalica, Jefferson "Jeff" F. Kennsley, and the Ethalican president's younger brother Attorney General named Robert F. Kennsley on year 1963, conspiracy theory of them responsible for downfall of ancient civilizations such as The Lucinian Empire, conspiracy theory of them the biggest big fish of human trafficking, gun running, and drug trade, and most of all, the controversial one, their so-called religious texts that the Veridicans, proudly justified their self-proclaimed supremacy over the human races, and spitting on the persons who were not non-Veridicians and murder rituals that involved deaths of non-Veridican persons, made this race a subject of another legitimate eradiciation. The netizens whose governments and countries were infiltrated by the Veridicans through the front proxies, they had no fucking idea how close they were in guessing the real face of their government and the sight of the real strings including these conspiracy theories.
The United States of Ethalica, and The United States of New Columbia, one of the countries in the Grand Western Blue Sea, towards "these cash cows to Veridicia" with the following Ethalican governments making fabrications and justifications through its propaganda machine including the so-called sanctions to the countries, and what to be expected for the same script used to ignite proxy wars, invasions, color revolutions, and tensions in parts of Astralis while remaining deaf on Veridicia's actions in Central Aroya continent, and the typical hypocractical speeches from those Western puppets and its puppeteers, Veridicia, containing words such as "democracy", "allies", "partners", "international community", "undemocratic", "our country is the best amongst the nations in our Astralis", "sanction", "tyranny", "oppression", "genocide", "dictatorship", "rules-based order", "interests", "human rights", "freedom", "good guys", "threat to democracy", "Veridicia is defending itself.", "Veridicia has the most moral in the army in the world.", et cera right from the mouths of the leaders, made it the so-called democracy they espoused in the West, a hypocracy to the tone of being part of the Veridican dysotopia.
The League of Nations, he already acknowledged it has numerous cracks. Who would care about it as long as there's those filthy evil Veridicans roaming with their Eldrothainist proxies doing the work? Let the idiots cook its fragmentation.
The Eldrothainist targets, to him, they were group of fools that acts without regard for local and international laws, engaging in actions like killing any Western citizens and League of Nations personnel, targeting peacekeeping forces in Arboria, bombing LN facilities in Mazrah, and interfering in the other country's elections. They're all marked on the kill list.
The Grand Western Blue Sea, as a Veridican dysotopia due to the way the governments there kowtowing to the Veridicans and the Eldrothainist deep state government, and the citizenry be a picture of a weary voter for the so-called "democratic elections", it's all the Veridicans' fault. They had bought out the governments through their influence through the Veridican multimillionaries such as George György, an Ethalican-Kossarian multimillionaire who was of Veridican-descent, a member of [The Eldrothainist World Organization], financing it, and having connections to the business sectors covertly through his proxies.
The current infamous Prime Minister of 'State of Veridicia', the war criminal who continued his predecessors' apartheid criminal acts in a usual typical Veridican manner, Benjamin Milkiekowsky, before he became a Prime Minister, shamelessly bragged in the Ethalican late night show how The State of Veridicia complete controls the whole Ethalican congress and government.
Through the Rebirth Organization's torture and interrogation towards some of the Veridican/Eldrothainist leaders and the "lesser big boys" of [The Eldrothainist World Organization], he, like the Clan, and the Organization, too, already knew that used tactic by the Veridicans - Veridican immigration in countries outside 'State of Veridicia' to penetrate the country, and use the Veridican immigrants in those countries as an asset to [The Central Ministry of Special Activities and Operations].
For example, in The United States of Ethalica, if an Ethalican voter vote any of the political parties there including the Democrats and the Republicans, it's still the same thing underneath because of the Eldrothainist deep state government and the infographics of the Ethalican politicians posted by [The Veridican Lobby Tracker International] speaking of how these Ethalican politicians were paid for by 'The State of Veridicia' and any of the Pro-Veridican organizations and groups. With the Veridican immigrants there in that Western Blue Sea country changing their Veridican surnames into an Ethalican surname with the usual plastic surgery towards their Veridican nose, the Veridicans were able to blend in amongst the populace and every sector and government agencies. A single word from [The Central Ministry of Special Activities and Operations] who acted on the covert orders from the leaders and State of Veridicia, the civilian assets there would do its job to provide support to Veridicia including providing a lodging to their fellow Veridicans.
It was a very clever tactic. His Clan and the Organization passed the Veridican tactics and information, and the copy of that infamous Veridican 'sacared text', Tomer Eth-Dam, towards The United Alliance of Eastern Coalition leaders as part of an effort in combatting the Veridicans, colonialism, and playing the long game since 1884.
One of his kinsmen, who was responsible for that task, told him of their reactions that time, and boy, he was glad The Federal States of South Cardavia and other non-Ethalican-aligned nations banned lobbying groups and PACs.
The Veridicans, they were more than a trash, they were cancer amongst the human race. Fueled with the genetic test results from the papers of Dr. Armin Schappert whom the Veridicians villified and falsely called the Western Blue Sea Continent War 2-era leader of Balkonien with an unfitting title, 'The Mad Doctor', with many fabrications made by the Veridican covert outlets and press, a single glimpse of the Veridican sacred text, the Tomer Eth-Dam, and read any of the scriptures of it, it was enough to have these subversive greedy pervasive tumor of Astralis be subjected to extinction with no exemptions.
As an observer and 'one of the actors', he knew the on-going boycotts towards the companies that support "Veridican Genocide in Mityar" or any apartheid operations done by the The State of Veridicia, by any means, be it weapons, components, or material, were all what the Organization, and his family, also took part covertly with no traces as per the script in shattering the so-called Pro-Veridicia cause image,and the Eldrothainist Networks, until and after the day The League of Nations dissolves together with 'The State of Veridicia', and the Veridican filth as a race, extinct with no single Veridican DNA strand around.
Thank the world, he's currently studying in Yuzurihama Senryaku Gakuen, one of the schools found in one of the member-states of [The United Alliance of Eastern Continent States], since the Eastern Grand Sea Lane itself remained impenetrated because of its unique natural barrier the Westerners nicknamed, "The Bermuda Triangle of the East".
Being one of the grandchildren of his own grandfather, a non-corrupted individual and a prominent leader taking the fort in the actual fort, their own turf and ancestral lands, Davalian Peaks, one of the regions in their home country for many generations, adding more battles to fight for in the future, for that was to be expected, as a sword cultivator and as an individual, he'll have to be the sharpest blade amongst the sharpest blades in existence because Ethalica's CIA or any from The Grand Western Blue Sea states do the 'work' at the bidding of the Eldrothainist Deep State Government.
For the whole clan's Anti-Veridican Crusade and on-going underground activities outside public eye for a crusade against 'State of Veridicia' and its non-Veridican proxies that included the skirmishes happening in his motherland and the so-called on-going 'terrorist insurgency', it's a game of covert movements, a proxy warfare in various forms.
Since year 1884, there had been more more fight to fight for including liberating the northern part home country, which unfortunately, currently was a Pro-Ethalican client state and a major CIA operations hotspot in Apara, all because of the Pro-Ethalican propangada and network there in the North hiding the 'dangerous parts' of the Ethalican Colonial Period colonial past in the curriculum and actual accounts of it, the accounts of the stationed Ethalican soldiers raping Cardavian women suppressed.
The state name, The United Republic of McKinley Islands, the 'North Cardavia', was an insult to the independence spirit and those who fought for it because the northern part of his motherland, the McKinley Islands, named after the Ethalican colonialist rascist president, Woodrow McKinley, who used the USS Maine sinking incident to blame The Aragona Empire and start a Aragonian-Ethlican War, made things during that time for the revolutionaries fighting for The Cardavian War of Independence, running low of Western weaponry and its ammunitions during that time of such anticipated move predicted by El Supremo Patriarca de la Sociedad de los Libres, Samario Catapang, to use the other plan.
In response after what publicly knew as The End of The Cardavian War of Independence, the unaffected parts of 'McKinley Islands', the South Cardavia, that weren't conquered or captured from the Ethalican adventuring colonialism of the past, such as Davalios Peaks, his clan's turf and strongold, located Southern 'McKinley Islands', in actual history, behind the scenes, the revolutionary leaders played the long game by having the revolutionary independence group, The Council of Free Nation, 'disbanded' in public and secretly reorganized as The Rebirth Organization with numerous shell companies, and corporations to gather more strength and resources.
The memory of the stories not known in public, told of him behind the curtains, the former Council of Free Nation played a right move and bid time.
As a sword cultivator, and part of the Organization, one of those plans would involve that. It's all part of the plan including Th United Republic of the McKinley which was the "North McKinley Islands", and The Federal States of Cardavia, which was "South McKinley Islands", for the on-going stalemate, and [The Southern McKinley Islands Crisis of 1945], a manipulated event secretly caused by The Supremo, that resulted Cardavia split into North and South through a series of manipulations not known in public.
There's no ifs and what could have been in year 1884, the past, the 'normal' weapons, the Western weaponry such as guns and ammunitions, even if it factually turned out to be a useless against the Eastern weaponry that was way of the Easterner life, the cultivation, in reality, alternate history written by those the McKinley Islander 'dreamers', including that sudden disappearance point of divergence, was not in his interest from the start.
No one knows the big game, and this item hanging on his neck. The keikaku train would run along with the script written by his ancestor since 1884, including the expected 'rates' of the Pro-Veridican brainwashed lemmings going up in that 'planned day'.
As someone who had this affiliation, there were many 'accidents', no one, not even the countries that had the reputation for its intelligence agencies for "its capabilities " popularly debated by their fans and admirers in internet, could trace and uncover these covert acts including the notable examples - the still on-going destruction of Veridican colonial settler transportation and its Eldrothainist networks, and 'disappearances' of Pro-Veridican personalities who were the Eldrothainist tools to the 'State of Veridicia' government, 'disappearing' the members of [The World Eldrothainist Congress], and assassination of many certain peoples that were of under the payroll of Ethalican Central Intelligence Agency such as one former 'North Carvadia' Marine turned McKinley Island Senator, Anthony "Tonio" Cruz, one of the Pro-Ethalican barking dogs.
Oh well, at he's a sword cultivator, not a 'normal'. Pulling swordsmanship feats good as Youko, that swordsman character from The Pirate's Two Piece Legacy, that's one of his goals as a swordsman to reach a similar level or surpass this fictional character.
After reading this useless thread of a fandom debate in a now-closed internet browser tab, the silver-haired swordsman somewhat moved on to reading the forum thread of a fanfiction's website to wait for seconds of internet browsing - to check the news.
His mouth twirled up in amusement.
Hoh? The Veridicans soccer fans playing victims towards the angry mobs because of a Veridican genocidal song sung by them in Avenstraad, the national capital of The Kingdom of Nardisja, the host of the so-called soccer cup? What a classic Veridican vile tactic as expected for a perfidious human race whose DNA was 'interesing'. They would use highly likely yellow journalism and paint those who attacked them as offenders later in the news similar to what they had done before to others. The whole footage captured by a brave 14-year Nardisjan boy citizen journalist, captured everything including the props carried out by the Veridican soccer player thugs and the Veridican genocidal chants before the provoked angry mobs formed and beat the crap out of them, made it clear for the whole story towards this incident in Nardisja, was [The Central Ministry of Special Activities and Operations] mudos operandi on this Veldorasean continent country found in The Grand Western Blue Sea.
Not counting he had his lovely fianceè, his paramour, his childhood friend, by his side, which basically nullified to read the so-called smut in internet and those fictional story hosting sites, forget it and the recent Veridican mudos operandi, because maintaining swordsmanship skill, cultivating one's self to be the sharpest blade amongst the sharpest blades, and be with her were one of the top priorities in his life with playing Samario Catapang's script.
Through his family's connections, and [The Rebirth Organization], studying the tricks and tactics of the infamous Veridicans and The State of Veridicia and the actual real history, and many more books, had became a classic for the future plans in understanding a stereotype typical Veridican behavior, lingo, and tactics, as part of his training.
Being one of the foreign students and foreign residents living in one of the member-states of The United Alliance of Eastern Continent, The Shirayuri Empire, he takes the Eastern way and approach than to follow the ineffective practices and ideas since there were many more creatures in this world such as lightning sparrows, flame boars, thunderclaw bears, and many more others to name of. Hunting them were part of the school's activities, and a norm.
Also, it was through the Eastern approach, the offices for reforms and internal security and stability measures, that the member-states of the UAEC, remained unaffected including the editted old photos and staged acts used as a headline picture of any Veridican-infilitrated media to stir fear and confusion in tandem with the Western pharmas and professionals from the medical-industrial complex spouting the same script made by the Veridican deep state governments.
The Westerners and its citizenry calling one of the countries from the North, The Federal States of Acadia as one of the big troublemakers and bullies in this world, Astralis? How amusing. The citizenry were all shills brainwashed by the deceits of propaganda and 'reports' from the Veridican-controlled Western mainstream media. The real troublemakers of Astralis were the Veridicans and its infiltrated proxies. The Grand Western Blue Sea citizenry doesn't really know the reality of the fabricated illusion 'reported' by the so-called journalists. Heck, even the "The Veradican Community of Feitar-Jarnernia", one of the Veridican NGOs in The United Crowns of Feitar-Jarnernia, one of the countries in The Grand Western Blue Sea, for example, the simping shills there might not even know it and the amount of so-called donations including from the Public Action Committees, [The Board of Deputies for Veridicans Living in The United Crowns of Feitar-Jarnernia], and many more Veridican organizations and groups, going to the political parties there showed how penetrated they were through the Veradicans living in those countries doing shit knows what in tandem of each [Veridican Deep Oversight Government] following the instructions of [The Eldrothainist Board of Non-Veridican Governance Affairs].
As for the Eastern Grand Lane, informally called by the likes of him, [The Cultivator's Continent], it had a natural barrier in a form of a fog, the Shroud of Vanir, infamously renowed in the world of Astralis as The Bermuda Triangle of the East, that was reverred in the Easterner cultures as a guardian spirit that protected the East for many centuries. Because of it, the East remained uninfiltrated from The State of Veradicia and its proxies, including the ancient civilizations outside the East.
One of the typical tactics, the lawfare, the usual tactic used from the West, was used against the countries that were seen as a threat to its growth, or the possibility the country would surpass the Western country in any of the domains through a technological breakthrough. The United States of Ethalica, was a prime example of using lawfare. He fucking lost counting how many sanctions by this Veridican proxy puppet and its fellow vassals, signed into a law and announced to the world of the sanctions and any crap from lawfare reported by the newsmedia outlets.
Lawfare, to him, bluntly, it's like going to the battlefield except bloodless through by legal systems and institutions used as weapons and tools to hinder an opponent.
The wisdom of one of the ancient Eastern sages from The Shirayuri Empire, Shikahisa Teniseken, through one of his books, The Manuscript of War and Battlefield, mentioned what would become a lawfare as such the Eastern states knew about it the long time. He had the e-book of it. Good thing his Clan had it included for his studies including The Balfouorn Declaration, the 1920 Escaburnian declaration named after Sir James Alfred Balfourn of Escarburn, the very 'main cause' why the Veridican's committing despicable acts of apartheid in those declared areas and zones for their 'state', and their "Greater Veridicia State Project".
The United Republic of McKinley Islands, the "Northern Cardavia" as he mockingly refers it, oh it was a clown circus majority filled with "name holders". The 'Northern Cardavian' factions that licked György-CIA buttcheeks, mostly the Liberals called as The Yellow Ribbons or The Yellows because of its associated symbol, and the now-disbanded controlled opposition of 'Northern Cardavia', the terrorist group, [New Maherdeka Liberation Front] and its front orgs, another Ethalican CIA proxy not known in public, it was a bit irritating for such the state with on-going proxy wars all because of those Veridicans, and the not known Veridican entity who were in charge of all Veridican Deepstate Oversight Governments in the compromised countries, [The Eldrothainist Board of Non-Veridican Governance Affairs].
Just you wait Veridicans and Eldrothainists, your days of committing pogrom would come in the specific day, and the reunification operation of the North planned by the South.
What The United States of Ethalica, The Land of the Free, here in Astralis for a nickname of such country? More like the most corrupt democracy in the world! [The Veridican-Ethalican Public Action Committee], the VEPAC, literally made the so-called democratic voting there turn into a one-sided game show with those idiots who think their presidential candidate won in the The United States Presidential Elections, turning out to be a VEPAC puppet all along.
What The Yellow Ribbons, the nickname of The Liberal Party of McKinley Islands, one of the so-called political parties in The United Republic of McKinley Islands, the one mockingly referred as "North Cardavia", being bunch of 'North Cardavian' liberals? The near majority of the political party and its supporters, were likened to a regiments of frauds and pretenders, an army of cosplayers holding a liberal political alignment who weren't liberals at all but a fucking non-liberal cosplayers using liberal as if it's an unequippable and equippable title like in those games. For fuck's sake even in the context of the so-called Western Blue political system context, those liberals in name were even against removing the economic restriction clause of the McKinley Islands constitution, the Section 2 of Article 12.
Calling yourself to the damn whole world of Astralis, a liberal, when you were against economic liberalization, the business ownership rules, the capital equity for starting a business in 'North Cardavia' as a foreigner who wants to start a business there, embedded the constitution that had a capital equity cap restriction? Not only a fake liberal, the fake bastards cosplaying as a liberal, this was also the most brainrotting thing he ever seen because not only having that restricitive item embedded on a constitution would make the constitution itself and the country be inflexible and short-sighted for the long-term goals and development while not knowing that the "economic liberalization" was part of liberalism, and that with these liberal in name wanna-be against the removal of the economic restriction in the 'McKinley Islands' constitution, they're to his, the so-called liberals, in his eyes, were a bunch of cosplayers and a disgrace as a Cardavians.
Thank the world for his ancestor causing [The Southern McKinley Islands Crisis of 1945], a scheme to split Cardavia into two - the 'North Cardavia' which was not the liberated areas by The Council of Free Men, The United Republic of McKinley Islands, and the ' South Cardavia', The Federal States of South Cardavia, which rose through the careful planning during the World War 2 done by The Ejército Popular contra los Koukaianos, one of the Rebirth Organization's fronts posing as a resistance group against The Imperial Dominion Koukaishima, and the leaders of 'it', were all part of the plan, because if the Ethalica secretly at the doing of the Veridican Deep State of Government did not get the whole country's total area of 45.9 sextillion square kilometers, that was splitting the country into North and South, that would be a loss to them, and The Rebirth Organization having an secret base and extention at the South, The Southern Cardavia Fatherland Front, one of the entities under The Rebirth Organzation umbrella, running the development and show there including the trolling towards the United States of Ethalica, and North Athalansia Treaty Oganization member-states and its fellow covert Veridican puppets,and The United Republic of McKinley Islands and its fellow member-states of [Southeast Maharasia Treaty Organization], it would be a bit a loss to them.
At least, [The Veridican Lobby Tracker International], and [The Boycott Movement], were, before this era, was covertly created by The Rebirth Organization through by The Grand Elder, one of his living ance- wait, stop thinking too much thoughts and things! Bad Lazarus! Always remember a best Eldrothainist, the Veridicans are dead one together with the corrupt warmongers!
Still inside The Eternal Spring Flower Bell's one of non-smoking rooms, Suite 727, with his custom-made sword, the Mugen no Yume, Infinite Dreams, in its case locked and secured, on his left side, after storing his cellphone to the bag from the browsing session, holding an amused smile, he looked up for a moment to call the attendant attending him and fiancee/girlfriend.
Due to the internet browsing combined with slight fatigue from the martial sparring sessions earlier, and having many recalls and thoughts, he became so hungry that he could eat a horse.
Undetthered by the Eastern music, the silver-haired, Lazarus, looked at the female attendant. "The order are these 2 meal sets, Saki Hakoru Chōwa Bento. The drinks will be the same - The Heavenly Sword Monarch's Overbearing Smile."
"Noted. Anything else?"
"For takeout, it would be this cake, Petal Whispher Cake. That would be the size." said the silver-haired male pointing out, the specific cake, and the size, good for 8 persons, and shifted to the other page of the menu. "Also, do you have any recommendations for me and my lovely companion? As you see,…"
Throughout the explanation, the attendant listened attentively while taking account of the choices, compatibility, and taste that goes with The Heavenly Sword Monarch's Overbearing Smile.
After awhile, the attendant gave a recommendation. "Sir, how about Celestial Blossom Soup? You and your companion will have a delightful experience. It's a to go."
Looking at the profile carefully of this recommended item and the displayed holographic model, Lazarus memorized the names for the next time. Repeating a wrong decision in the next time, in his eyes, were moves of a dense herbivore, and a fatal mistake in a battlefield. He had a dislike of those types who does not learn a lesson and mistakes. His Clan taught him about it using various examples including the typical whinery of the Ethalican voters and citizens towards any of the candidates and politicians turning out to be the receivers of [Veradican-Ethalican Public Action Committee] 'donation money' whereas those citizens could not even think of destroying the old system in their country because they say, no matter what system, it's still on the person.
Persons like that, in his eyes, they're a dishonest disorganized foolish bunch of ignorant stupidly stubborn repeaters who never learned from their mistakes and come up with out of touch reasoning and replies while civically ignorant and unaware of other effective practices including the term, "political reform". Such a fitting to say it to these hardheaded herd, "Ignorance is a bliss."
Hmmm, this recommended item looks delicious…what a delicious soup.
'Nice, it has fatigue removal. It's even one of the recommended. Thank the world we got an item preview hologram.' "Okay. We'll pick that soup, medium size."
The attendant nodded in understanding and bowed. "Order received for Suite 727. Please wait for the preparations. If you have any more request, kindly use the tablet."
Sliding doors closed, the silver-haired male's fiancee/girlfriend, a beautiful black-haired amber-eyed female childhood friend, his third cousin, sporting half twintails tied by two ribbons, sitting beside him, happily rested her head on Lazarus' shoulder. She's wearing a jersey jacket, denim shorts, gray thigh high kneesocks, and rubber shoes. Like him, her sheathed blade, too, also rested on her side, through by their shared blade case.
"Moments, like these for us," fondly said his female childhood friend, Francesca, "makes me glad I am by your side and yours, Lazarus."
"As do I, Francesca. We must do our best in this world we live in. I meant it. Lots of plans initiated by him since 1884."
The girlfriend smiled, her amber eyes, showing fondness and affection. "Right, right, four of our dreams they're what we have in common."
"To be one of the strongest swordsmen." recounted Lazarus, one of the common dreams they shared, smiling back. "To think that from our childhood….our childhood goal came from when we both watched The Pirate's Two Piece Legacy anime and its manga. That mutual feeling was nice as sword cultivators and swordsmen."
"Agreed. Say, Lazarus, if there's such thing as next life, we'll be together, right?"
"Of course, Francesa. We promised each other during our childhood by swearing to one another with our respective blades. Together forever always. The toy rings in our fingers we wore since our childhood are proof."
Fondly fondly looking at the toy ring, which symbolized their childhood promise, Francesca eyesmiled and half-joked, "Even if you, The Sword Seer, have a harem of beautiful non-Eldrothainist girls and non-Veridican girls I approved who loves you as you and had an approval from our Clan? I mean I am afterall a royalty through my ancestor."
While Francesca held back her laughter, smiling at her teasing suggestion, there was an undertone of seriousness in her words regarding not allowing any harmful individuals near her beloved and their Clan.
Lazarus, who had been drinking his tea, almost choked at her remark.
Beside them, a tablet on the table displayed the prices of the items they had ordered, totaling 3,800 Shirayuri Kōrin.
Having recovered, Lazarus turned to look at Francesca, who then pulled him in for a kiss.
(Flashback End - Present - Current Life)
'Francesca, in our younger past years, after we returned there and brought home lechon Yuzu, at my room in our Clan compound in Shirayuri, we spent love- wait why am I hearing and sensing things? I'm supposed to be dead at 369 years old from erosion!'
Waking up at those thoughts and realization, I looked at the surroundings.
I saw a big one that stood out.
There's sort of tower. This tower might be the fucking tallest one I ever seen in my current life, towering over the spot I was in. It had this impression of the otherworldly fantasy world appearance similar to the fictional stories I read whose origin was any of the countries from the East in my past life world, featuring dungeons except Astralis' circumstances and conditions were that unique and part of its reality.
It might be even bigger that Tenshō-tō, one of the training grounds found in Shirayuri, but the distance between me and that tower, was very too far for my own eyes to check it.
I looked at another direction, northeast.
In there, there's some persons of 3 wearing equipment of their own, going to the other side of one of the paths, chattering, caught my interest. They're wearing clothes similar to this high fantasy story I read from my past life which may for this case in this unknown world I reincarnated at may have enchancements or something on it.
Like this one white-haired elf girl with green eyes, wearing what I may think to pass off for a swordsman.
"A couple more Kontol to buy some materials for upgrading my blade. I need to take some commission."
"Fiel, that was so almost me last week except that if not for my mission that takes place in Thronia Kingdom and had an encounter, I might not have gotten some idea to create my inspiration to create a new move. I am very lucky."
"As for me you two, I did not have much hindrances for my path. How is the capital there, Aaron?"
"Poor excuses, Michael. The students from Alfea Magic Academy of Thornia, those who were of nobility, were bullying and looking down on the commonborn students."
"A classic irresponsibility from arrogance and pride for that, Aaron, Michael." remarked the white-haired elf girl with green eyes. "All the work from their elders and previous generation falls from a pride of the next generation. They forgot who they are and where their wealth came from."
"Well said, Fiel."
While I don't understand things yet for this Thornia, things I understood were bullying and looking down on commmoners due to the class prestige and hardwork from the previous generation.
With the existance of magic known around in this world I reincarnated, that behavior for a "class status difference" would might be worst alongside the bullying. I did read some fictional stories including those that have magic so I'll expect such foolishness close to it, happening elsewhere including criminalities.
'Magic that is normal and spread in this world, huh? Unlike my past life world, where we need a [Sovereign Prism] to pull it off, this can be both interesting, challenging, and annoying at the same time. I'll expect a cliche tropes to come too. Hmmm, If I can figure out my name and identity in this current life, that'll be one of my first steps. I need to get my own blade to naturally. As a swordsman, a blade is part of myself.' While I'm thinking about these kinds of thoughts and the circumstances regarding my past life and my conditions of my past life world, a new female voice came.
"Eh? I only left a bit to buy an crepe from the vendor and you're awake."
From this voice nearby, the first thing I saw was a black-haired little girl with twintails, and sporting violet eyes. The clothing this human girl wore reminded me of from the ones in The Shirayuri Empire. It's a kimono that may be of a battle-type in some way added with added with haori, and her footwear was more of the metallic greaves from The Grand Reich of Vöcklaling, one of the countries from The United Alliance of Eastern Continent States. From what I thought and think, she could pass off for a sword cultivator from The Shirayuri Empire in some way.
'Really a loli?' I thought.
Watching her smile a bit and what I thought to be she's checking behind or around whatever she placed, the black-haired human girl, looks at me. "Lansveloth, we shall return back to the compound today. The compound has plenty of things you could enjoy besides a sight of The Tower of Challenge standing there."
'Lansveloth's my name in this life, huh? Still from impression, surely she has a security measure applied since that would be one of the common sense in this world. This name…Lansveloth, with this name, that'll be part of myself.' Looking at what she's looking at, I figured she's referring to that tower over there.
'Tower of Challenge? That's some name for a tower. I will remember this because from now on, that's one of my list.'