ti: ?

  Location: The vilge hidden by steam. Home of the iimbus.

  Φ As I watch all my newly found kids frolic around and py ninja, I say, “Little ones behave!”

  In a beautifully harmonious union, the kids scream back at me, “YES, AI!”

  Hearing their beautiful voices say my name, I almost have a heart attack. “There are all angels, I am so happy I made them mine. Now all I have to do is wait for the day they all call me mom. Then I will go kidnap Suzuka, Iancu, and all the rest of the cute kids in the world.”

  “Ai, wipe your bloody nose.”

  “Thank you Sugiru. But what are you doing here, I thought you were going to ze about for the 8 months!”

  “I was, but we retly received word from Tsukki’s omega butterfly in Skydust, and it has quite important news.”

  “Let me see,” I say as I grab the omega butterfly out of Sugiru's hand. After reading what it has inscribed on it, I say, “What the hell is this!”

  “I knew Gevurah were warmongers, but I never khey would go this far, we ’t let su atrocity stand, Ai we have to strike back!”

  Putting my hand on Sugiru’s head, I say, “I know how you feel, but we aren’t a military group, we are reporters and we will fight the best way we know how. Now let us get to work.”

  In the wake of the war between Gevurah and Skydust, the iimbus quickly spread the news of the tragedy that had taken pce all over the world.

  ti: Terrafide

  Location: The warrior nation of Avalon

  As the members of the king's cathered, they mulled over the news some with fear, some with surprise, and others with anger.

  Φ “This is an e, to think those fiends would sughter Skydust.”

  “I never suspected something like this would happen, how will our ey survive!”

  “Is that really what you are worried about?”

  “Of course it is, don’t you uand how much we import from Skydust, I know an idiot 2nd seat like you wouldn’t uand, but there is nothing easier to destroy than a kingdom with a destabilized ey.”

  “You say that but you're just upset your favourite cash cows are gone.”

  “Don’t speak of things you don’t uand boy.”

  Getting up from his seat the idiot tries to fight me, but then all the et up from their seats in the court and try to hold him back. “Say that again you penny pusher.”

  “As many times as you need idiot.”

  “ENOUGH!”

  Ign the raging idiot, I look over to our king whose presence silences all the voices in the room. “How do you expect to lead this kingdom if you ’t trol yourselves.”

  Bowing our heads, we say, “Sorry your majesty.”

  As we all sit down and pose ourselves, a minister named Loria says, “My king may I speak?”

  “Go ahead.”

  “It doesn’t make seo me why Gevurah would destroy Skydust. They import many of Skydust's high-end goods for themselves, so wouldn’t they rather ensve Skydust and make it into a y.”

  “Loria makes a fair point; I don’t really think killing that kid Percy would outweigh the bes of capturing Gevurah.”

  “This a wasn’t made by Gevurah, but of their 1st seat Soris. 1st seats of any try's military have the right to act autonomously and start or end wars whehey want to, so he could have pletely made such a decision on his own.”

  “So, are you saying killing Percy ersonal vea?”

  “Maybe one of his friends where killed in the war with Varage.”

  “I doubt it, from the information we have on Soris, he doesn’t have any close personal bonds.”

  “So, what the hell did he aplish outside of hurting Gevurah?”

  “robably overthinking this.”

  The idiot Kay says, “We aren’t!”

  “Noould you say that, Kay?”

  “To soldiers, our seat rankings are not just a matter of social prestige but is a measure of the responsibility given to you. As a 2nd seat, I have thousands of soldiers whose lives hang in the bance over my very decisions and I take immense pride in that.

  But that responsibility is much greater on 1st seats, they are literally a try's physical representation of power, and every a they take carries the weight of their entire try. So, I wouldn’t say any deade by them could be simple or stupid.”

  Letting out a sigh, I say, “That was actually quite enlightening ing from a simple and stupid man such as yourself.”

  “WHAT WAS THAT!”

  With a strong voice our king says, “The sudderu of Skydust, has aplished two separate but impactful things.

  Due to destroying Skydust mere hours after deg war, they pletely stopped all forms of aid that Skydust could have gotten from other tries.

  And now due to Skydust disappearing our try which relied on imports from the Kritz family sky airdrops will face issues, and if you factor in the destru of the Animus family, now all the biggest delivery panies on the ti are all part of Gevurah, in this one decisive move they have gained a giant grip over the ey of Terrafide.”

  “I see my king, but what is the sed issue?”

  “The sed issue is fear.”

  “Fear?”

  “Skydust is a peaceful try that was full of kind people, this is a well-known fact, but despite all of that they pletely obliterated it off the map. To all the people in the world, this sent a very clear message; if you don’t surrender we will kill you all, from the elder all the way to newborns.

  To citizens all around the world, this will cause them to lean more towards submission and may even cause rebellions in times of war. It was a brilliant move fevurah to have do will make their goal of expansion easier by magnitudes.

  Now gest is to send financial aid to the tries iween us and Gevurah while strengthening our trade routes.”

  “Wait, I thought our ey was in a bad position, why would we be sending aid out?”

  “Does your brain even work?”

  “Roroan did I make you part of my court to pick fights, if you have something to say expin it instead of belittling others.”

  Bowing my head, I say, “Sorry my lord.” Turning my head to the idiot who spoke up I say, “Since you don’t uand what are king is sayi me enlighten you. Due to the loss of the Kritz family transport and the fear Gevurah has embedded in people's hearts, many small tries like the ones between us and Gevurah will likely surreo Gevurah.

  So, to teract this we will take away their dependen Gevurah through eic aid, and making a few public alliances will help us quell the fears of the people in all tries involved.”

  Standing up our king says, “We will also tighterade routes with, , Deno, and Uilepheist. Remember everyone, we are the sed rgest try on Terrafide, if we fall Gevurah will have the tio itself, we ot allow such moo have their way.

  So, like alut your faith in me and follow my instrus, for if you do that we will win. EVERYTHING WE DO IS FOR AVALON!”

  Standing up all of us sm our fists into our hands, then scream, “FOR AVALON!”

  This news has been quite troubling, but just like always we shall put our fate in our kingdom's 1st seat and king, his majesty King Avalon Ddraig Eternity.

  ti: Terrafide

  Location: Nightmare Nation, Blestemate

  Φ “Prime minister, what are we going to do? Gevurah has been being more and mgressive and with our queen in her current shape-.”

  Putting his finger over my mouth, the prime minister says, “Watch your tongue, we don’t know who may be listening.”

  “Sorry sir!”

  “I uand your worries, but it is of no , I promise regardless of our monarch's current situation we will get through this. But to do that I need ministers like you to keep calm and collected. you do that?”

  “Yes, I !”

  “That’s good, now make sure our borders with the rest of the human civilizations on Terrafide are secure, we don’t need any more is that might spark a premature war with Gevurah.”

  “I will get on it, sir.”

  Walking away I say to myself, “Despite our prime minister being half human he really does care for us. Though to my knowledge, his father Captivant was also quite a lover.”

  ti: Terrafide

  Location: The Grand Library of

  In the grand library of , two men sit down to have a calm discussion over a cup of tea.

  Φ “THOSE SHIT FOR BRAIN, DUMBASS FUCKERS, DO THEIR HEADS EVEN PREHEND WHAT YOU JUST DID. The sky fe is lost teology, there isn’t a single person in the world who could build a replica of it. THOSE mentally molested dogs should just go rot in hell for the loss to existehey have just caused. It is this exact hypocrisy and idiocy that made us schors leave the church of Lux and start the church of the messiah!”

  “To think someone as proo fits as you could be sidered the most knowledgeable thing alive. The title of Grand schor has really depreciated.”

  “What the fuck are you on about, I have been the only grand schor for over 2000 years, has your stupid human brain started to rot you brat!”

  Sipping my tea, I say, “You have lived over ten of my lifetimes a you still ck basic courtesy, though it is not like I expect a living tree like you to uand such things, and don’t call me a brat , by human standards I am a senior citizen.”

  Standing up from his seat, says, “Maybe you don’t uand the gravity of the situation. Those RETARDS at Gevurah will burhing down if we oppose them, all the knowledge has gathered will be turo ash, could you even imagihe loss to creation that could be!!”

  “It won’t fall.”

  “HOW YOU BE SO SURE!!!”

  “Because I am here. As 1st seat and leader of all the hunters, I promise you that.”

  posing himself, says with a smile on his faposed of bark, “Well it seems you uand the stakes grand hunter but answer me this; what’s with the smile on your face!”

  “Simple, hunting wonderbeasts and dragos b after a while, so the thought that I get to hunt some humas all my old bones riled up!”

  Letting out a sigh, says, “I swear all you hunters are as crazy as you are strong but be careful, you know as well as I do that the number of people with legacy has nearly tripled i ten years. In fact, this geion might have the most recorded in history.”

  “All that does is excite me even more .”

  “You never ge yrat.”

  ti: Molstoria

  Location: The Rinast Unions, Navy base; Tempesta

  Φ “Those tries in Terrafide sure have it ruff.”

  “At the rate, Gevurah is going they might quer the whole ti. Then they might set their sights on Molstoria . What if they wipe us all out!”

  “If they ever came to our ti, they would be destroyed in a heartbeat. Unlike on Terrafide, all the tries in Molstoria are part of the Rinast Union and have one giant military. We could crush Gevurah with sear numbers, not to talk about our plete naval supremacy!”

  “Yht, we have nothing to fear at all!”

  “Those bastards at Gevurah should just e try us, and we will make them vanish just like Skydust!”

  “NEW RECRUITS, SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

  Standing to attention, we salute our senior officer and say, “2nd seat Surgoth, we are sorry for our noise.”

  “We promise it won’t happen again.”

  “During times like this, it is good to boost morale but be careful talking about the Skydust i,” With that Surgoth walks away.

  “Why should, we be careful?”

  “Idiot, don’t you know, one of our 1st seats is from Skydust.”

  Φ “To think Elliot, Dush and the entire Kritz family are gone. How will the young master deal with this news? Should I even tell him, noth he isn’t the same kid he once was, he definitely handle suews. He has grown strong.”

  ti: Enotita.

  Location: The kingdom of Bai, City of Liáo yá.

  Φ As I am tied up and pced beside my fellow soldiers, I am told, “Behave and you might one day get to see your family again.”

  As the enemy soldier walks away, I hear one of my fellow soldiers say, “Those bastards from Dā are rampaging through our try.”

  I hear someone else say, “I two days, they have queror twelve of our castles.”

  “TWELVE!”

  “I had heard the Dā military had gotten stronger with the first prinpletely taking it over, but this strength is godlike.”

  “The first prind 1st seat of the Dā military; Dā Jiā. I wonder what kind of man he is.”

  Φ As I let out a tremendous ugh, my attendant Ten asks, “My lord, would you please enlighten me on what you find so funny?”

  “It seems in the western ti, things seem to be heating up.”

  “I don’t see how that’s a good thing.”

  “It simply means our unification of Enotita will have to speed up if we are going to keep pace with them. How exhirating! When the men fiaking care of things here met up with me at the city of Téngwàn, I am going ahead.”

  “Your wish is my and, my lord.”

  Walking away I say, “I feel a great storm brewing, but right now it is only partially formed, it is still missing the ohing that will truly allow it to take shape.”

  ti: Terrafide

  Location: Spirit nation of Seirei.

  Φ Lighting a cigarette, I say, “Granny Osaki, you seem to be doing fine.”

  “And you seem to be zing around as usual, instead of helping all of the citizens with rebuilding.”

  “They brought in on themselves for putting Suzuka in a witch hunt, they rebuild themselves.”

  “Well, I see your point.” Sitting down beside me Osaki says, “Hey Shinko.”

  “What is it, Granny Osaki?”

  “Do you believe you could take the pain and suffer of over 10,000 people all at once?”

  “I doubt any human .”

  “Yet if Suzuka was anywhere close to that horrible i she would have felt all of it, and would have to live with all that suffering for the rest of her life. Do you think while living like that she could find happiness?

  “A smug little girly boy promised me she would, so I think that is enough for me. And don’t go w about that whole Skydust i. The twinstars don’t use the same seat ranking system as all the other tries, but we have two S-rank hunters who easily surpass most 1st seats. So, all will be okay you hag.”

  Feeling a sudden impa the bay head, I hear Zashiki say, “Did we raise you into a man who talks that way about women?”

  “I don’t remember being raised by a prehistoric fossil like you.”

  “HOW DARE YOU!”

  ti: Terrafide

  Location: The Holy Nation of Gevurah.

  Φ “General Maria, this is a bad idea.”

  “Piss off Koa!”

  Seeing him with his golden mask down the corridor, I walk up to Soris and scream, “DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID YOU BASTARD!”

  “General Maria, go back to your quarters, that is an order.”

  Grabbing him by the colr, I say, “You had no reason to wipe Skydust out, you fucker!”

  Breaking my grip, Soris says, “Watch your tongue, don’t you know using profanities in a church is a sin.”

  “Don’t get smug with me, do you really think-.”

  Suddenly the air around us gets heavy as Soris starts exuding an intense pressure. “General Maria, I don’t think you uand the fact that I outrank you, so every single one of your insubordiions in front of me is unfivable.” Raising his spear Soris activates his lega it and says, “I n you to death!”

  As he raises his spear slowly to align with my neck, I feel the pressure overtake me and hold me still, “I am dead!” I say closing my eyes.

  “Hey, hey, hey!”

  Hearing a familiar voice, I open my eyes to see someoh there are ed around Soris’s neck. “Now what the hell do you think you're about to do to my baby sister, mister genocide!”

  Soris says, “1st seat Nightingale, get your arm off of me.”

  “Oh, I will, but right when you tell me what you were about to do to my sister, you should know she just gave birth due to how much I talk about it, so I don’t uand why you seem to be hostile towards her?”

  “I said, GET OFF ME!”

  “WHEN YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION!”

  I see my older sister activate her lega her leg armour, and moments ter she and Soris pletely disappear from my sight, then around me I hear loud cshes that send shockwaves everywhere.

  Behind me Koa shouts, “A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY IS CURRENTLY IN THE BUILDING, NOT EVEWO OF YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH CAUSING TROUBLE FOR A ROYAL!

  In front of me, the two suddenly appear as if they stopped mid-attack.

  Turning his legacy off, Soris walks away. But my sister says, “Mister genocide, just so you know if you ever point your spear at my sister again I am going to take off your head.”

  Stopping Soris turns his head around and says, “I would like to see you try!”

  As I let out a sigh, I am suddenly kicked in the face by Nightingale, “Hey Maria use your brain and don’t pick fights with those strohan you, are you going to let your little princess Sheera be motherless.”

  “Sorry sister, but I couldn’t let that go!”

  “I know, but you need absolute power to seek absolute justice, remember that Maria.”