Vol 4 Chapter 49 (2/2)

Sanyou knehat she meant The illustrations were siainst dragons and great beasts in giant forests or snowy lands, but eventually losing

Sanyou could feel the bitterness entering her smile as she looked at those pictures

…There’s no helping it You can still iine what happens next even with the simplified illustration

“Of course, this is just an irew out of the stories of those who caed with the modern advances in land developal haveHarone Française have…yes, they have built on repeated failures to send actual colonization expeditions through the Gate and to the New World”

But while things had improved, she had heard that the overall situation had yet to change

The reason was simple

“The harsh environine”

She took a breath and simply stated the truth

“The deserts are scorching, the snowy id, the forests are densely packed with trees over a hundred ales that blow everything away, and dragons and great beasts roa is on a scale more appropriate for a world of the Gods”

She continued from there

“And while the people have sent out countless colonization expeditions, they have all failed That is partially because they could not send out any decent aerial shi+ps, but even if they could head out into those harsh conditions, they could not create settle techniques of the Age of the Gods”

Asareement

“Yes …Even if they could go there, they had to live there Even if they could live there, they had to give birth there Even if they could give birth there, they had to raise the children there And even if they could raise the children there, they had to pass on what they had and let the process repeat …And that cycle has to be stable and never once come to a stop I have heard that they at best could reach the ‘give birth’ stage in the harsh environe of Dawn”

“Heh heh So they got far enough to do dirty things with each other…”

Asa! Please stay on topic!”

Me: “Eh? On topic!? Are you talking about dirty things right now!?”

Vice President: “We are not! Stay out of this! Why would you suddenly join in!?”

Me: “Y-y’know…I am the Student Council President… Eh? What is it, Horizon? You want o to you? You want me to clench my teeth for Asama’s share as well? It’ll only take an instant? What is it, a treat?”

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Everyone silently hit the “approve” button

Asama: “Oh, sorry about that The line itself is open, so those who took part in the s I sent them in a divine mail”

I hope their presence will be a reassuring thing, thought Asama as she saw a few people join She had Hana and a compressed summary

Hanae of Dawn, so she is being tsundere about whether to help us in the future We have begun an explanation of the Age of Dawn even though Masazuo to war”

Obscene: “Now that’s a nice summary!!”

Laborer: “Wait What’s this about going to war?”

Mareube-ya: “It explains everything so well!!”

Vice President: “Okay, I’m sorry! Yes, I’m sorry!”

Uqui: “That Age of Dawn annihilation scenario is always such a downer In a porn ga where your child is born, but once the credits end, it co, ‘Afterwards, every resident of theirVillage died in agony because they were all ood business decision if you want to sell Black Disks of an add-on scenario, though”

Gold Mar: “Yeah, ”

Uqui: “By the way, that was a spoiler for the ending of the Three Kingdoame ‘Shall We Do the Later Han?’ I didn’t have Tenzou’s help, so I only just ed to finish it”

Sorry, but I’uess that really is where the story’s going

“Um…”

Asama cleared her throat and faced Yasuhira

“Can we continue?”

“Go ahead”

Was Asary look on the woman’s face? At any rate…

“Anyway, the people were trapped in the Far East, but there was a proble out the colonization expeditions, they analyzed their bloodlines and determined which lands their ancestors came from…but once they were unable to leave the Far East, the population grew overcrowded and the nations split up into different factions to begin a territorial war”

This was the third partition

…The people fight and destroy each other

Everyone had heard the result

“Use of the spells of the ti cut in half in teeks Also,the war and all of the large-scale spells were lost…so even life in the Far East grew to be quite difficult in that age”

“The people realized they couldn’t let things continue like that, so they gathered together and discussed what to do Azuma-kun, do you knohat those discussions led to?”

The back of the library had a “Meeting in Progress” label up and Azuma listened to Sanyou’s lecture at the study table they were using

The story was the saht in the i to the world outside Now that he thought about it, he realized that lecture had been done by a teacher sent by the Teacher’s League

“Those Age of Dawn discussions are said to have been the beginning of what became known as the Testament Union”

“Judge That’s right I suppose you would know”

Sanyou smiled and nodded, but her smile was spread a bit horizontally

She released a quiet breath before continuing

“Of course, we don’t actually know if that’s what really happened”

“Eh?”

“I mean, no one froood that hat happened and there’s no problem if it was…but when it comes to history, be on the lookout for this kind of ‘story’ Even if it’s hard to tell fantasy froe of those who came before us”

She looked across the students surrounding her

“But a few things were decided during those discussions

“1: They would gain the power needed to protect and preserve mankind so it would never be destroyed

“…That was their overall motto and it referred to the Testament Union and their equipment such as the Testament

“2: They would speak with the Environmental Gods to stop the intensification of the world

“…This was done withthe Party of Seven Hundred to the Environround

“3: They would create an alternate dimension copy of the Far East known as the Har population and to help overcome the harsh environment of the outer world

“…With the help of the Environmental Gods fro different parts of the world and their ley lines to the alternate di the ley lines The Harmonic Divine States had the same form as the Far East, but it recreated the environ lands as per the Divine States-World Interaction Everyone but the Far Easterners moved to the alternate diy they would need to overcome the harsh environment of the land they would one day develop and live in

“4:…”

Azuma knew this one

Sanyou must have known he would because she nodded his way

He straightened his back and answered

“4: The people knew they would be destroyed in war, so they wanted a common instruction manual that allowed the destroyed In other words…the Testament”

“That’s right” Sanyou smiled “The people had once ascended to the heavens as Gods By repeating that history, they could safely develop their nations without being destroyed …The wars of history could be overcoed war in the heavens, waged war on the earth, and approached destruction countless times, so they may have been tired of it all That is why they created the Testament to set a standard development pace for the Harmonic Divine States and that became every nation’s basic rules for peace and development”

What were these four decisions known as?

“Anti-Decline Pro-Tuning”

Thewas clear

“Looking at 1 through 4 together, their greatest goal see destiny to obtain a destiny that did not lead to destruction If mankind’s destiny fell into chaos and approached destruction, they only had to retune it according to the good old historical sheet music known as the Testament That is e call the process by which we follow that music and that process continues to this day That is e are known as ‘musicians’ and e recreate history around those with inherited names”

“Now, then,” began Yasuhira “The Anti-Decline Pro-Tuning Project began, the world nations began living in the Har the histories of their lands But the Far East rey to support the Har their history recreation and obtaining those technologies through interpretations Even if they had a reason, it was a forceful move forward and there was one main reason they could do so”

Asa a button next to her

“That would be the Emperor’s presence”

Asa Kimi’s double thumbs up

“The Far East had already created a specialized organization for the Anti-Decline Pro-Tuning Project and it is said they had the divine and un-aging Emperor who could communicate with the Environiven an abridged Testaan the history recreation from the Nara period as that allowed theies they needed, and they had to wait for the other nations to catch up with their recreations”

The Emperor was said to be deep in a fortress known as the imperial palace that was located in the center of Kyou The un-aging E God whose role was to control the ley lines through the Environmental Gods and who led the Far East’s shrines

The Emperor’s presence was a major reason the other nations were cautious of the Far East and hesitant to establish a permanent rule over them shi+nto workers did a lot of work related to the Far East’s divine transmission and transportation infrastructure and tended to act as contacts with the other nations, so they were taught about the history of the shrines and the Emperor But…

“Yasuhira-san, your ancestors moved to the Harmonic World in that era, didn’t they?”

“It seems so Our ancestors wished to support the people who had moved to the northern lands, so they too moved to the north of the Harmonic World”

“I see,” said Asama with a nod

“Hold on I have a question”

Naoht arm She must have still been a little drunk because her cheeks were still flushed, but she spoke clearly enough

“Hiraizumi Representative, you said they wanted to support the people who had ht? But letWhat could you do to support thee of Dawn? The other nations hadn’t been able to live in the colonies they set up in the outside world, so how could you support them in the northern Harmonic Territory that recreated that environment? …How did you do it?”

Naomasa tilted her head

“If all you did was go with them, you both would’ve been wiped out But you still exist as a race What in the world did you do?”

That is an excellent question, thought Yasuhira in silent astonishment

It was Musashi+’s 6th Special Duty Officer who had asked Based on her race, she was likely froested she was froion, but even the south hadthe winter

But, thought Yasuhira

“Let me ask you instead, as I believe you already know the answer”

Musashi+’s representatives looked confused, but that did notsmile appeared in Yasuhira’s heart as she asked her question

“What did we use to support the northern Harmonic Territories?”

Hori-ko: “All right Fess up, whoever it is If you’re honest, I won’t be angry with you”

Me: “Okay! When I dropped my spoon at the Blue Thunder before, it was on purpose”

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Hori-ko: “This is a pain, so does anyone have a guess?”

Gold Mar: “If Bara-yan was here, I bet he’d be delighted to answer”

10ZO: “Would so they didn’t realize they knew”

Righteousness: “Sorry, but I’ve never heard anything about this Sato-lived, but ere the ones that left Oushuu… Our knowledge of the Age of Dawn isn’t much better than yours”

Laborer: “I unfortunately don’t know anything either”

Silver Wolf: “I made sure to learn about the current heads of the clans, but I didn’t learnabout that when speaking with Lady Yoshi+tsune at IZUMO”

Me: “Then I guess there’s only one answer: the topknot”

Hori-ko: “What a coincidence, Toori-sa The topknot A strange act that draws out so it on their head”

Wise Sister: “Yes, you two I was thinking that as well During the Age of Dawn, the people id lands by topknotting each other for warmth There are a lot of those Jizou statues that are a variation on the traveler’s deity, but those must have been there so people could do the topknot on their own!”

Asaize to every single Jizou out there, Kiot to speak with Lady Yoshi+tsune a lot, so can you think of anything?”

Vice President: “Yes, actually It’s probably the Divinely Ordained Prayer Academies”

Almost Everyone: “If you knew the anshy didn’t you say anything!?”

Have you never heard of tihed Masazumi

But that was the only thing she could think of, so she faced Yasuhira and spoke

“Yoshi+tsune told us the Divinely Ordained Prayer Academies were the oldest of the academies”

Yoshi+tsune hadthe Princess Disappearances

“At the end of the Age of Dawn, the ianization in Oushuu tohad occurred there Was it alsothe Harmonic Divine States? This ?”

Naruze heard a voice

It was laughter, and it came from Yasuhira’s crescent moon smile as she looked to the sky

…What is this?

Why would she laugh at that? wondered Naruze as Margot nodded next to her Margot spun her fingertip in a circle next to her head and Naruze could not help but agree

“What’s so funny?”

“Oh…it’s just been so long since I last heard that name”

“That means those academies actually existed, doesn’t it?”

Yasuhira responded to Masazu her body around

“Now, then You’ve taken this to an interesting place And…”

And…

“I would be correct in assu a consensus about Oushuu, wouldn’t I? Of course, our knowledge at this point is no more than oral traditions from our ancestors”

“What will you do?” asked Masazumi “To prepare for Musashi+’s discussion with Oushuu, I believe we have told you everything we know or can speculate about Oushuu Froh So…”

“If you would like to know more about Oushuu, it would indeed seem you need to hear it from me”

“Are you willing to tell us?”

Yasuhira responded with a calm action: she stood up

She was preparing to leave, but…

“That is enough discussion for now The rest of the story e of Dawn …I think we should end our discussion for today now that we have finished explaining how Oushuu beco the Far East’s enemy”

“Judge Understood”

Masazumi nodded toward Yasuhira and then asked what she had to ask

“Have we reached a consensus on Oushuu’s history of resistance?”

“I believe you have the sae as us And you did not hear it from me… You were able to describe it from the victor’s viewpoint of a shi+nto representative”

Yasuhira formed a small smile on the corner of her lips

“Yes To be honest, I can ees and hard feelings as if they were our own,” she said “But we are not our ancestors And I also think our ancestors decided to assist the Harmonic Divine States in order to ensure ould not become the descendants of losers”

“Very true After winning out over the harsh environ Oushuu, your race can be called victors”

“Yes …Now, Victors of the Dawn”

Yasuhira turned to Asaether

“What is it?”

“Victors of the Dawn, you said quite a lot while re sensitive to the fact that your history is the history of the victors But…do not show that sensitivity any longer”

“—————”

“You are the victors, but if you are sensitive to that fact, you e of Dawn, but they did not lose after that So…”

“Yes” Asama nodded and relaxed her shoulders “A lot has happened, but I think we can both becoree?”

“Of course …If we can stand on the side of victory, we have no complaints So…”

Yasuhira looked to Masazumi

“Win toeneral assembly, Musashi+ Vice President …Oushuu has no intention of losing any further If you e will join you That is the consensus we offer you …Oushuu and the Far East in together That is all”

“Is Musashi+ good enough for you?”

Masazumi asked just to be sure and Yasuhira put on a cal from her thinly opened mouth

“Your goal is the retrieval of the Logismoi Oplo and end of the Apocalypse Your method is world do of Oushuu and Hiraizumi’s past I heard as much from a shi+nto representative as well as a politician”

So…

“What you are doing has not strayed fro destiny to obtain a destiny that does not lead to destruction We have no reason to reject that And either ill be victorious in the end That is the way of the long-lived and our ancestors are proving it through us now”

Her expression changed there

“Do you have any chance of victory at toeneral assembly?”

“I already told you Ookubo’s faction has the saoal as we do and I trust that they understand the most expedient means to that end It does notwill return to the way it was”

“Then…I suppose I will trust you”

Those are soht Masazumi This was the trust of someone whose ancestors had once sacrificed themselves out of trust for those who had already betrayed them So…

“Everything will return to normal tomorrow And then…”

“Yes We will discuss what came after the Dawn We will discuss how our ancestors became winners rather than losers Rather than a consensus of the past, ill reach a consensus on what led Oushuu to what it is today”

Yes

“I will tell you as much as I know about the Divinely Ordained Prayer Academies”

“Judge” Masazu “Thatnow”

“Being able to share our enjoyment is yet another form of entertainment …Even now, I am indebted to Lady Yoshi+tsune”

Yasuhira vanished into the fog

She vanished silently and suddenly It was a very fitting departure for her

Once everyone realized the negotiations were over for the tih But…

“…?”

Masazun frame open It was sent fro had happened inside the Ariake, but then Asama quickly looked up

“Um, they finally found Futayo! And…she’s in the Blue Thunder! The one on Tama!”

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